Interestingly, I am on the FODMAP diet, in which I am to avoid wheat-products because of a type of short-chain sugar they contain. But seitan is A-okay because it’s just gluten, and it doesn’t have that sugar. Diets get kooky.

The nicest thing I can say about all of this is that I’m glad those with Celiacs have more options than ever before.

Normal people go to the internet for their nudes. This guy obviously wants to dominate the girls. He doesn’t care about the pictures. He just wants to show he can make people do what he wants. And if they don’t, they get slaughtered.

I guess it was more about having power and sway over his female colleagues than it was about noodz

That is horrifying.

I mean, her mother was being abused, so that’s the context. But she’s also specifying that even non-abusive relationships can be no good for women because they are just shitty for x, y, and z reasons. Which is accurate.

Women stay because they’re weak. So, really, all those women trapped in abusive relationships just need to toughen up...? At best it’s a thoughtless thing to say.

I thought she was calling women out on having plastic surgery and claiming that the changes to their bodies were from working out. That is actually pretty harmful in the unrealistic expectations it creates of women.

People routinely say that women “feed off of drama” or love drama or try to create it. It’s a blame tactic and it’s condescending.

Well I don’t know, asking her if she ‘feeds off the drama’, especially considering her personal ties to all the guys involved and how it must be a strain on her in the middle, is rather irritating.

Good for her. There's no reason for her to take that shit.

‘Men Thought That Women Just Gave Birth By Magic’

Baby magic?

I’m not sure how long it lasted, but people absolutely did not know quite how babies were made. They though it was the moon, rituals, etc. Having a baby almost a year after having sex made it not so obvious that it was the sex that caused it. Also, only women give birth, so it seemed like something they were…

They’re gonna talk the same way, CJ and Josh and Scully ’cause I’m one writer.

I’m currently in the middle of an estrangement with my best friend. Former best friend, I guess. It’s hard and I vacillate between feeling guilty and wanting to just cut the chord and move on quickly. It’s been dragging on for over a year now.