This is kind of a thing right? I felt like as a teen knew a few social butterflies who were assertive and aggressive but would in the right situation tear up and be like “you guise, I’m just like rilly rilly shy, you know?” It’s very much a Regina George move.

Sooo, according to my knowledge of Catholic teaching I was told that the virgin Mary’s hymen despite having undergone childbirth (of the lord Jesus Christ) was still somehow... intact. That he passed through while leaving her sealed. This detail is important, so important somehow that I had a creepy religion teacher…

This genre of sad bastard music is always my jam, no matter my mood. I’d also recommend anything by Jason Molina, Grizzly Bear, Cat Power, Pure X, Perfume Genius, and Arthur Russell. I’m happy to see the Blood Orange mention. Your description is accurate.

To recap- being victimized makes you seem like a victim and nobody likes a victim.

See women should give up their dreams because true love (between wealthish white heteros) will always end up providing a perfect future for you! If you reject true love and move to NY like a shrew, you’re on your own. This is kind of why I still like Girls a bit. I like that the most sane advice given to Shoshanna was…

Hey bros, why don’t you just lighten up? Sex is just something that women naturally need. If they don’t get off they could seriously damage their ovaries. Blue ovaries is a real thing. It’s science women are just more sexual than men, it’s evo psych and you don’t want to argue with science do you? By judging this…

Your elaborate self serving revenge fantasies? Yes, they only exist in your head. The assault I and many other women have experience happened in real life. I could give less then two shits about what my father would want to do to my attacker. Because, I’ll say it again, it’s not about him or you. Sure, you might think…

This is still like a hypothetical revenge fantasy that exists only in your head. Please consider what you get out of thinking about it. It’s about restoring your masculinity, protecting your honor, etc. Rape isn’t something that sets you out on your hero’s journey. It doesn’t let you get to be a cowboy or Liam Neeson…

Dude noooooo. A woman’s violation, even if she is your daughter, has NOTHING to do with you and how good revenge fantasies make you feel. It’s about her, and her feeling whole and autonomous after having that taken away from her. It’s not about you.

People who see this kind of thing and don’t act aren’t blameless, but what can we do to empower people to react? There has to be some kind of middle ground between someone thinking they are a superhero and jumping in other peoples business and everyone just straight ignoring it. It’s so ingrained not to get involved.…

I’ve had relationships (or whatever they were) that were chill and I’ve had relationships that had absolutely no chill. I think the problem is, and what the author was talking about is when one person decides to become a thermometer and match the levels of “chill” exactly to the person they want. That almost always…

If I'm totally honest, I do sometimes envy people who are super close with their parents, however I wish it was considered more ok to not be close with your family. It's like people think that unless you are totally estranged from your parents because of abuse or something extreme that adults should still tell their…

Do any of you still have it? Can I have it? I know this was a different decade, but it has that low-key sister wife of Father Yod vibe I want to give off this summer.

The sweatshop free manufacturing, and (even if it was kind of limited) body diversity in the models, lack of photoshopping, and occasional visible nip or pubic hair wasn't really the problem I had with AA. Those were like the only good things about AA. I was glad they got rid of pervy Dov, but it sounds like they just…

Haha, twinsies! I also have those thoughts. Like, what if I really am a product and I'm just like a really shitty unpopular one? We should get together and have an existential crisis sometime. If you see someone weeping around Capitol Hill that's probably me.

Yes! These are just vanity projects with extremely high production value. Capitalism is a hellava drug, everyone wants to be the shiniest, most popular product around.

When I was a teenager I visited SF and thought it was coolest, queerest, best city ever. I always considered moving there until I visited this last year. What the hell happened there? Everything I hear about coming out of the Bay Area is godawful, and I live in its almost equally awful tech twin city, Seattle. Without…

Eh, I know I'm not tall and blond with tiny features, so I know I don't fit into most ideas of mainstream beauty. But on the other hand I'm thin and ethnically ambiguous and have interesting enough features be decidedly "weird pretty". That really does it for some people and I've received enough compliments to make my…

Maybe it's a mistake, maybe they meant "casual, teen, gay sex" are our most searched for porn keywords.

Target clothing is the woooorst. It's boxy, ill-fitting, the sizing is weird, and even their special "designer" collections seem somehow poorly made. My mom and my sister have this Tar-jay obsession that is beyond me. I've never had anything form them that didn't fall apart in less than a month. It's not really that…