This is basically exactly why I became an atheist. I went to several Wiccan ceremonies, had a mentor who was very nice and not at all creepy, but when I realized “Oh, this is the same thing but with different names,” I peaced out.

OMG, I so badly wanted to be part of a witchy, goth, girl-gang.

I wanted to BE Fairuza Balk’s character SO BAD.

I BIND YOU, SONY, FROM DOING HARM. HARM AGAINST OUR TEENAGE SELVES AND HARM AGAINST YOURSELF.

There are still honorable soldiers out there, though it’s hard to see the trees through the forest sometimes. Granted, there are plenty of assholes in there, but there are just as many amongst the regular populace.

There would be a lot fewer people like this in the world if people like you would have an adult conversation with them about it and be a fucking friend. I was (and still sort of am) a fairly picky eater. Not to the “no vegetables, no fruit, just fried and processed stuff” extent, but it took a long time for me to…

The “get ready for X comments” comments are the most tiresome on Kinja.

And from that day forward, you knew you were destined to be a lawyer, to protect children from eating food that was dumb and stupid.

I wasn’t trying to suggest it was, only that reasoning it out with your parents is generally not an effective strategy for a 5 year old.

Exactly! When I was a child the family always told me how rotten and ungrateful I was. At 18 my uncle said they knew the whole time what I went through. “Then how could you leave me there?!?” I begged. That was over 10 years ago. I wrote the whole family off, and while every holiday brings up feelings of loss and…

My childhood with my mother was pure hell (my father left when I was 8). She was an alcoholic and a VERY unpredictable one. I spent my entire childhood (until she died when I was 14) doing everything I could to be invisible. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn’t. But yet the media has to do everything possible to…

My son came home from school with a craft for me today, and the first thing I thought was, shit, I hope all the kids in his class have mothers.

I love the idea of a line of Mother’s Day cards (or father’s day cards in my case) that are like “I love you because you are biologically my parent and thats a huge thing in both our lives, but lets face it things are a bit weird between us so this is as affectionate as I can be right now. Best Wishes.”

My friend Iris took this photo and captioned it “When you hate Mother’s Day and this is the grocery store.”

It’s only the sunshine that’s special, anyone can shit apple pie.

If you can’t afford to tip appropriately, you can’t afford to eat out.

The way I see it, far-right Christians are going to continue their crusade to make life unbearable for everyone who isn’t them, and insane anti-choice protocols are par for the course there. In the meantime, the more the Satanic Temple trolls them and probably gives a few of them aneurysms, the better.

“Remember everyone, independent reviews of police activities would be ULTRA-TYRANNY but anyone attempting to charge the police with a crime that they obviously committed must be independently reviewed. By the police, preferably. Don’t worry, we’ll let you know if we think we did anything wrong.”

When you say all your interactions were perfectly courteous I have to assume you’re white. If you’re black (or another ethnicity that draws suspicion), it’s a totally different story. I’ve had more police encounters than I can count or remember and I can only remember 2 that were courteous and with merit. In every…