Yes.

But frankly, if you want to educate yourself about transgender people, the details of the surgeries some people choose to undergo during transition are not the most important thing to learn about. Try starting with the discrimination - in employment, housing, healthcare, and all other areas of life - that many trans…

:( It also negates people who can carry babies and aren't women, e.g. some transmen.

Naw, fuck hotdogs, don't even care, what I want to know about is this "nitrate-heavy meats" — does it include bacon?

HOW MANY TIMES CAN I STAR THIS?

*FANS SELF*

Thiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssss. From a full scholarship at an Ivy League college, through academic and emotional burnout/dropout, to a job tending bar. In my defense, I love my job and my parents are both fucking proud of me. But it would be nice if I were less good at beating up on myself.

I felt ... hm. I felt proud, and a little different — but I had never really fit in well in the first place — and I felt like I had some explanation for why I was getting so bored so quickly. I think a lot of it was in how my mom and teachers framed it. Like some of the other high-testers on here said, my mom never…

Well that's just lazy bartending. And sounds disgusting (not the LBIT as a drink, but the way this one was served).

Thank you! I needed to hear this today.

Amazing news! You should be proud your little nugget.

Take a deep breath, self...

Resident (formerly) poly person — his behavior was bullshit. All of it. And you know it, of course you do, that's why you're leaving him. Which, GOOD FOR YOU.

:[ Gross. I'm sorry to read about your drugged drink experiences below, too, and glad that neither of them ended in assault and that the GHB didn't actually kill you. What the heck is so difficult about "don't drug people's drinks", anyway? I'm gonna quit this planet soon, I swear.

Ugh, I'm sorry. That's a really crummy place to be at. It sounds like you're finding and respecting your own boundaries — not giving her weed money, not going over to her house because it's not fun any more — and that's really the best thing you can do right now. With #1, when it became clear that I could not change…

As a kinky person, I am going to vote bondage.

While many studies show that cannabinoids and THC are not chemically addictive, they do trigger the same "happy centers" in the brain that can turn into addiction in people who tend that way. What I mean is:

Oh, I have probably paid that guy's wages out of my own tab on a couple of good weeks. Because you know what makes me want to have fun and spend money? Not having to worry (or at least, having to worry A LOT LESS) about getting assaulted or raped or generally made to feel uncomfortable and meat-like. Sure, I've paid…

I'm not against the lidded cups tout ensemble (hell, I've been putting napkins on my drinks when I turn away from them for as long as I've been drinking in public, because that's what you do when you're a woman in a bar), but I do think there are better ways to deal with rapey patrons than by continuing to put the…

I am a bartender (who gets surprise extra-strong drinks from other bartenders sometimes, once with deleterious consequences) and I approve of this message.