I see myself as transcorporeal. This physical form is just an affectation of biological circumstance. I really identify as a ghost.

Could be she was bullied at school because she was bullied at home. Bullies sniff out and target underconfident people.

This. Suicide is a complex issue, and coverage of it has been - traditionally - as insensitive as the original remark. Kudos, Anna. More from the National Institute of Mental Health.

I was shocked how many commenters here loved that video of the dad shooting his daughter’s laptop after going on a 5 minute screed about how awful she is. That shit was twisted and violent.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

No, fuck that. There’s horror stories like this all over the news and internet these days. With all the resources at our command these days, I have very little tolerance for parents who would do this kind of shit.

My mom did that shit to me when I was a kid, on top of all sorts of other things. I’d come home to military school catalogs on the kitchen table. My heart breaks for this girl.

This shit that parents do is straight-up abuse. There’s no other word for it. All sorts of people will come out of the woodwork to, if not defend this dad (because the outcome is undeniably tragic), defend other parents who do other shaming forms of punishment, like make their kids stand on busy street corners with…

That is some disturbing shit.

That is what he wanted. To give her a hard time and put her on the spot. He knew she could be mocked and embarrassed at school. This is taking emotional abuse to the extreme.

She might be funny, but she’s funny in that way when you laugh uncomfortably at an acquaintance when they make an off-color joke. In that, this wasn’t actually funny, it was weird, and weirdly nasty. Lots of Cool Girl-isms, etc in this piece.

Ruth Baby Ginsburg agrees!

Ruth Bader Ginsbark* approves**.

I love teens, but they require a lot of patience.

Who thought it was a good idea to have two white dudes on a panel about diversity?

Isn't it interesting how the emotionally abusive ones always balk at the idea of having to spend time with family that isn't their own? Mine did that too. Or friends. Couldn't have that either. Glad to hear you got out too though. :)

Thank you! I woke up one day and realized: you know, it can be a metric shit-ton better than this. So I stopped going to couples' therapy, told the ex there was no chance of reconciliation if he was still fucking that little turd, and terminated the lease of the house I could no longer afford, which I was keeping only…

I think the important thing is that you got out of that situation, so good on you.

I never should have married the former Mr Crumpett, but I thought I wanted it nonetheless. Ex-Mr C is a misanthrope, and he wanted our wedding to be an elopement to a town in Vermont that had much sentimental value to us both. Then Mama Crumpett said she had to be there, so she and my dad were coming. Then ex-Mr C's…