losingmyburners
LosingMyBurners
losingmyburners

This comment was me a few years ago. I was perpetually single, couldn’t get a date no matter what I did, and all of my friends were constantly being pursued while no one even asked my name. Men being interested in me was a pipe dream. I am completely invisible to men and have been since I hit puberty.

Did you listen to the first season of Serial? There’s a part in the first season where Adnan says something like “It doesn’t matter if you’re innocent or not, if they offer you a deal, TAKE THE DEAL.” That’s probably what this was - taking a deal on a lesser charge so he wouldn’t run the risk of getting found guilty

Dude, I am a 37-year-old woman who has been using public restrooms for decades. I have never, not once, in all the states I’ve visited and places I’ve been, been uncomfortable in a restroom based on what another woman looks like.

Just like it’s only identity politics if it affects someone other than white (usually male) people.

I used to fall in “love” with guys I wasn’t physically attracted to all the time. They were funny and smart and kind and I would have loved to be with them. And they really liked me! They thought I was awesome and fun. Except I was ugly. Apparently looking past lack of sexual attraction only works for women. Not one

Yes. I want the Rich family to join forces with all the Sandy Hook families and Comet Ping Pong and sue Hannity and Jones into oblivion.

This. I never expected to be partnered, let alone married, because I was the perpetually single girl who couldn’t get any male attention even if I’d walked naked into a bar full of sailors on shore leave. Eventually, I just decided to stop waiting around for a man and built a life I was happy with on my own. It wasn’t

One of the reasons my husband and I don’t have kids is because the second I think about having a baby I imagine scenarios like this. I’m convinced that if I had a child I would lose it in the most tragic way possible.