didn’t they say it was postmarked after she disappeared though? I wonder if someone forced her to write something, or else she gave it to her roommate to mail if something happened to her.

Yeah, I call bullshit...either the guy made it up or else he had a “bad cop”investigator who was trying to play on his sexual innocence and wrapped up a piece of meat or something. although I have a hard time believing that a jesuit priest wasn’t at least familiar with the scientific female anatomy. That order is…

I’ve been waiting for this site to review The Keepers!!! I was blown away over all by the care that the filmmakers took to listen to the women. The story was ultimately about them: Cathy, the survivors, and her students who have been working to bring the case to justice. I agree with the reviewer here that one of the…

Even the texts from the last day that they released, she said that if he didn’t do it that day, then she was going to “get him help”. I read through them and while they are deeply unsettling and the girl seems delusional, to me it reads like she somehow thinks she is helping or loving him. I mentioned above (and…

I was on lexapro for a while adn it definitely was the best of all the SSRIs I was on (I don’t respond well to them as a class, though and am now on a different type of antidepressant.) Make sure to monitor your moods when you go on though. sometimes things get worse before they get better and sometimes they get…

New York Magazine has a very good, nuanced piece covering the texts and various details from the case. This girl is clearly deeply, deeply troubled and is clearly culpable in the young man’s death.

Meanwhile there’s countless young men rotting away in prison for years on drug possession charges. Makes me angry

Sorry, not sure what you mean? I guess my point was that Episcopal schools in the DC area are parochial, but not “christian schools” in the way the original poster meant, i.e. my friends who went to such private schools weren’t Jesus freaks or particularly conservative. mostly it was people from the DC monied elite…

eh St. Andrew’s is an Episcopal school, which in the DC area means “rich WASP school”. If he’s brainwashed, it will more likely be in the ways of Wall Street and trust funds rather than Jesus and he was probably getting that at his NY school anyway.

agreed. I haven’t tried to get pregnant yet, but my mom had a fairly late term miscarriage when I was 5 and i remember how emotionally difficult it was for her and my father. (I was sort of too young to understand much about miscarriage other than that the “baby had died inside her” and that we wouldn’t be having a…

Absolutely agree that monetary donations to the stabbing victims is fine/honorable, but will disagree slightly that emotional support doesn’t equate to bills/monetary burden, etc. I don’t know these girls’ financial background, but what they witnessed is likely to require very intense, and probably professional…

The church proudly displayed their name and spoke officially as a church. The clergy wore their collars and the congregations sang. There are leftist churches doing good work, they just aren’t “scary” so they don’t get the coverage the right gets.

There were plenty of congregations represented at the Women’s March in my city. There are a lot of churches that actually believe in Christ’s teachings, doing good, helping the poor, not being judgmental. unfortunately the outspoken ones in this country are generally the bigots. However, at least in my community,…

Yeah Alec Baldwin had a red MAGA hat where the phrase was translated into Russian and it was a BAD translation, especially given that the phrase only has 4 words. i don’t understand...New York has so many Russian immigrants, there must be at least one Russian speaker on staff who they could have asked to look it…

Back when I was in my early teens, before I had realized I was gay, I had a laundry list of favorite actresses. I was a theater kid, so at the time, I thought it was a testament to their craft. Sure, they were appealing to look at, but I couldn’t look away because they were such good actresses you guys! One of those…

This festival sounds like my own personal hell, even if it had gone successfully. I sincerely don’t understand the appeal of dropping $400+ on a weekend long festival, particularly in a tent. maybe it’s my inner hippie speaking, but the blatant commercialism sort of goes against the point of the experience to me. …

You’re entitled to your opinion of course, but as a fan of many shows with strong leading women, I think it is a smart, well-written and fresh take on PTSD and abusive relationships. It’s sort of a Trojan horse in that it depicts these issues for people who may not necessarily watch the show if it was done in a…

Yep. I am a grad student at Berkeley and the Republican group scheduled this event for the second to last day of classes. As a TA and a student going through my own intensive exams right now, this whole scandal has been tiresome and infuriating. How are students supposed to be able to learn what they came here for…

The only difference being that Chechnya has a Muslim majority doing this.

Gay men were sent to prison camps in the USSR. In the beginning, homosexuality was actually decriminalized when they overturned a lot of the tsarist codes. Actually 1920s USSR was very sexually experimental, with people advocating for the abolition of marriage, polyamorous families, collective childrearing, etc. It…