Cosigned. I cut off my father 8 years ago and haven’t looked back, and I haven’t spoken with my mother in 3+ years (although her Final Fuckup wasn’t nearly as bad as my father’s, our relationship overall has always been worse, so TBD on whether we can sort things out) and it has been HEAVENLY. Yes there’s guilt and…

If I had a dollar every time some well-meaning asshole said, “You should be nice to your mom.” I’d be a millionaire. In my mom’s world, “nice” is never, ever contradicting her narcissistic, bipolar, boundary-smashing, emotionally abusive bullshit and that is never going to happen. Fuck making strangers happy at the…

I’m estranged from my father, and it’s incredibly anxiety provoking when he tries to make contact, or people try to make me contact him. So much so that this is the reason I’m not in contact with anyone from that side of my family.

It’s to the point I’m seriously considering changing my last name.

This. Jezebel is actually the place where I learbed what toxic person is, how to deal when you have toxic family members and realized that I’m not crazy, there are people like that in the world. To read-on the same site-this bullshit of an opinion (I love you Bobby, but this really is total miss), is just so…

Thank you. I keep my distance from a toxic sibling, who makes me out to be a terrible human being for doing so while conveniently omitting her terrible behavior. Our extended family and her friends think I’m the worst, but I don’t bother explaining myself, because it will only fan the flames.

I 100% agree. I haven’t spoken to my father in years, and I know he complains to people about how his kids are so mean and don’t care if he dies. He won’t acknowledge that it’s his awful behaviour that has led his family members to cut him off.  

I misread this as “defriending yourself” and It was so zen-like a statement I felt my brain unfolding like a kaleidoscope.

I hear this.  I cut off half my family and I regret nothing.  The number of times I have heard “but it’s FAMILY”... good lord.  Just because somebody is related to you doesn’t mean you owe them a sweet g.d. thing, least of all your time.  They can get stuffed.

I refer to this kind of behavior of publicly and ill-advisedly airing concerns regarding your estranged adult children with as voighting. But if he keeps it up, I’m going to start referring to it as markling.

Stand By Me (but not that close)

It is The Middle and in the 7(?) seasons, she was on at least 5 times and every time was fucking magic.

Words get substituted or merely alluded to (“n-word”, e.g.) all the time, including in academic settings and even in courtrooms.

So true! Though, if I think about it too much, which of course I am, Trent has a pretty physically demanding job.  Putting on rock shows is definitely a workout, and I figure it’s more sustained than acting jobs where you have stunt doubles doing all the hard shit!

If you see Panama or Harriot tell those dudes they are both (as is yourself and really everyone else here) great writers and that I highly enjoy their work. 

idk why david simon seems so much more human to me than other rich and famous people, but he does. between this and bourdain’s suicide i really feel for him. 

Oh what a fucking shock he has a history of hatred of women. Until we talk about how the commonality not only is about guns but about our culture’s hatred of women and the seriousness of harassment and abuse of women, this won’t stop. Goddamn I hate this country so much. And if you’re a piece of shit that’s going to…

Michael Phelps has several natural advantages: Abnormally long legs, hypermobile ankles, and some kind of hormonal deal that allows quicker muscle recovery. However, he is male, and is not making anyone “suspicious” with his looks.

I also think it’s conspicuously about the fact that the advantage is being granted by something “unladylike” i.e. “makes penises sad”. Like, if giant breasts somehow made you a significantly faster runner, I doubt there would be as much hand wringing over a huge chested woman just dominating every running event.

Famous last words: “I won’t settle this case!” (see: Trump University).

It’s like the political universe had to get back for “No Drama Obama” by giving us this fucking Katrina-sized shitstorm of non-stop scandal to restore balance or something.