If some stranger tweeted that at me, I would absolutely report them. I think we have very different ideas about “innocent.”

When my mother died, I bought tickets over the phone to get on the first flight home I could. AA bumped me from my flight because they were oversold and my husband and I were the last people to buy tickets. When I calmly but tearfully spoke to the AA employee at the gate, not yelling or asking for any special favors…

His feelings are not her responsibility. He’s a grown man. He must know that it is 100% the right of any person to decide who they do and do not want to spend time with, and to make those decisions for any reason or no reason at all. She doesn’t want to spend time with him. That’s as much as he’s entitled to. He is…

Oh shut up, mental illness is fucking real. And spinach smoothies and yoga don’t fucking fix it. Good Lord.

People on this thread are not understanding mental illness. I’ve had anxiety since I was a preteen. It’s not about needing exercise or because of society.

Women aren’t even allowed to create openly fictional narratives without people coming in and saying “I really think you were unfair to this imaginary dude you made up.”

I have been taking generic amphetamines for adult adhd under a doctor’s supervision, of course, for going on 9 years. I’m over 50 now, and damn, I wish I had these in my 20's. Modern life is a regular shitstorm to deal with; 2017 has been a regular tsunami shitstorm. Modern meds are a godsend. Now all we have to do is…

Referring to anyone who has had the courage to address an issue and ask for help a victim is an asshole move. Period.

When I first started taking anti anxiety pills, it was like a curtain was lifted into my real life

100% agreed. I’m on celexa and Wellbutrin and they’ve quite literally saved my life. I’ve been in therapy for YEARS, and it’s been very helpful, but you can only accomplish so much work with a therapist when getting out of bed is a Herculean task.

That’s OK! Not everyone has to like the same things!

What are the indications that you think point to her being abusive?

You can’t possibly be a woman.

They are not equally horrible and she is in no way giving off signals of abusive behavior.

Yes. Women and men are perfectly equal, racism is solved, cats and dogs live together, and inexperienced 20-year-olds are on a perfectly level playing field with mid-30s individuals.

I don’t think the story was supposed to make the reader super sympathetic to her. In another comment I say that I think the point of the story was to make the reader empathize with her, with her flaws and problems and insecurities and everything.

Are you serious?

I guess I don’t understand what your criticism is. The story tells her thought process as she’s pursuing a relationship with him. The character in the story doesn’t “write a screed,” she has thoughts. There is nothing I see in those thoughts that paint her as “insufferable.” She’s assessing, to herself, his…

Insecure man in his mid 30's pursues a flirtation with a collage age girl. When she shows genuine interest his anger & innexperience taints the interactions. His only recourse is to exploit power dynamics. He internalizes all of her reactions including not wanting to go on a date at her workplace & dressing…

Disagree, he’s manipulative right from the start. He uses negging, selective intimacy, and changing the rules of the game to control her. He depersonalizes her right from the start. Then when she realizes it was bad sex and didn’t want to have anything more to do with him, he stalks her and calls her a whore.