Finally, I know who to thank for the solution to my teenage swimsuit woes!

I have always been quite tall. My mother, an otherwise pretty understanding and laid-back parent, would NOT let me have a bikini when I was a teen. Since she was also quite tall, she should have understood that one piece swimsuits do not fit my…

Not having a dishwasher really does suck, but it’s an extremely common situation in NYC apartments.

Yeah, it’s very common not to have a dishwasher in NYC. I didn’t have one when I lived there and neither did most of my friends.

So much this.

For a lot of people, kink is a way of dealing the very things that make them feel afraid or uncomfortable. There can be value in exploring the scary stuff in a controlled setting with other consenting adults — it sort of defangs the fear. It makes total sense to me, given how many women have experienced…

Yep. There have been rumors about consent violations and safety issues there for a long time. Kink.com is rarely actually named, but it’s generally pretty obvious which studio is being discussed.

I have a feeling some willful ignorance was involved. I’ve read too many stories that were not explicitly about Kink.com but were about safety/consent issues at an unnamed major kinky porn studio in L.A. (and they are THE major kinky porn studio in the US, period) to seriously believe no one noticed this behavior.…

Right? I am always mystified by this idea that kinksters are just totally ignorant of why they get off on what they do, or haven’t bothered to think about it. If what you want is to be dangled from the ceiling while someone hits you and calls you names, it’s unlikely you are just going to shrug that off like, “Meh,…

Right? I wondered too, then I saw she had elaborated and kinda wished I could un-read it. Why would someone actually send that to a person they hoped to sleep with?

Every time I leave the house, I check my keys, lock the door, arm the alarm... then get a block away and find myself worrying that I’ve not only done none of these things, but that I’ve also left the oven on and accidentally let the cat out.

Your story creeped me the hell out, and I really enjoyed the conversational tone, fwiw. You can’t please everyone. Thanks for a good scare.

Right? My older brother had a couple of friends over the years I would have been interested in. When the party wasn’t going to be too wild, I was allowed to hang out, because I WAS a relatively mature teenager and my brother tried to make me feel included.

Coven was a complete trainwreck, but it managed to stay compelling and fun for a surprisingly long while after it lost the plot.

Murder House is definitely the best-written season. Not without its flaws, but I actually believe the ending was written (or at least dreamed up) before filming was 2/3 over. And I feel like they did a wonderful job of exploring different variations on the “haunted house” theme (the home invasion episode, Halloween,…

I kind of hope having Scream Queens as an outlet for some of his sillier urges will help Murphy stay focused with Hotel. Maybe he can back to the kind of horror story he was telling in season one. But probably not. :/

Haha, my dad made a similar mistake. I was born a month premature. When I started first grade, our classroom had a “birthday train” on the wall — this paper train decoration with a car for every month of the year, and each student’s name was written on the car representing their birth month. My name was on the “June”…

Right? If it doesn’t act remotely like weed, why is it being talked about like it’s similar? No wonder people are still smoking this shit and getting into trouble — they’re probably expecting a totally different experience. You’d think after a few of these stories about it going horribly wrong people would stop,…

It’s more that a) suits were expected, and b) people didn’t usually own as many outfits back then. Each individual garment might cost comparatively more, but if it’s completely socially acceptable to be seen in that one suit, just with a change of shirt and tie, ALL THE TIME, it’s more easily justifiable to spend a…

Yes! I get a little verklempt at the sight of Kimmy stepping into the sunlight, every time.

Oh, I would not call a cis person brave for playing a trans character, or an actress “ugly in up” for a role when she can go right back to her usual life, or anything like that.

You do know most actors aren’t celebrities or millionaires, right? And that they spend most of their time getting rejected, after pouring their heart out in front of total strangers at every audition? And that unlike most people, they have to constantly hunt for new work, and most of them work at least one, if not…