I mean, since when is it unique to use NYC as a setting? Is it even a city anymore or merely a collection of air bnbs cheek by jowl with empty luxury apartments for the super rich, all overlooking the worlds largest outdoor movie/tv set? You seem nice but that was a silly thing to say.

This is me. I started getting regular manicures a few years back from an unjudgey manicurist and eventually learned to do it myself. My hands aren't always 100% perfect but channeling the picking into active maintenance has made a huge difference like nothing else I tried.

Lol!! Love this article. I’m an autistic woman and have been fighting my skin picking tendencies for literally as long as I can remember. Mostly it’s focused on my cuticles, with the result that for yeeeeeeears my hands looked like a bird pecked them no matter what I did. It’s called a “stim,” and is a soothing…

If I don't exercise, I don't sleep. Especially in the summer, the extra light just supercharges my brain and I lie there awake with my brain overclocking. I wish I'd made that connection sooner in life!

I used to but now I'm super rural, no gym. I do walk/run 15 miles a week, daily yoga, and swim 3-4 times a week when it's warm.

Last year, a goal was to write a novel. I did that. This year, it’s to get said novel published (or at least, try very hard), and write a sequel.

I think it’s a brilliant protest whether she intended it or not. This is what we do, white people who believe black lives matter. “BOOM BOOM shoot me” is our “hands up don’t shoot.” Let's arm ourselves with BB guns and get this thing going!

I can’t help but think it *is* a protest... I didn’t see anything to indicate it is not... Kinda brilliant. What if all we disaffected White people turned up at our local precincts and followed her lead in droves? Fucking interesting. It’s our “hands up, don’t shoot!”? (Instead it’s “boom boom shoot me, what are you,…

My graduating class was just shy of a thousand, and honestly I think it was a good thing... There were so many kids, I don’t think groups like “jocks” and “nerds” etc really existed and there wasn’t this huge angst and animosity so many people report as part of highschool. Most people I knew had 2+ extracurriculars,…

I got mine five (six?) years ago when Australia was giving them for free to all women under... I wanna say 30... The American hysteria about the damn thing is so stupid.

For whatever reason, “scratchies” is a part of Xmas traditions in Australia for a lot lot lot of people. Buy a stack and scratch em off on Xmas morning. Since he’s aussie, I think that’s what that is. (Otherwise yah super tacky...)

My MIL is an atheist and supposed feminist, and she told her daughter the same stupid thing when she was being beaten/raped by her husband. The sister told my husband and he was like “get out right now, divorce his ass, if you want to press charges we support you.” Was so proud of him. The sister is divorced now and…

Yeah my mom pulls that shit too, and fully denies she does it. I don’t kowtow. IN highschool, she iced me out for three months bc I snuck out one night and was picked up by the cops “decorating” a park gazebo with spray paint (it was pretty, not vandalism).. She pulled it again about a year ago and tbh as much as I…

It never fails to amuse me when mothers of young adult children refer to the kids as “brats,” as if somehow the kid spontaneously became that way through no fault/actions/neglect on the parent’s part. Earth to clueless parents- if your kid is a brat that says more about you than them.... Especially when they are fresh…

You kinda sound like my mother. Two of my brothers and I were close enough in age that we all ended up leaving home for school the same summer. She was also going through menopause so she was either sobbing hysterically that she missed us or going crazy and yelling about all our crap everywhere in boxes and she…

lol at your statistic. 85% exactly? No more, no less, unquantifiable phenomenon and zero citation. Checks out.

That’s.... Stupid. I say report it all, all the time, til the gun idiots are drowning in the reality of our current situation. Maybe then they’ll wake the fuck up and actually read the second amendment and ponder the meaning of a “well regulated militia.” I say publicise it all, force us to face our sickness. It’s a…

Sure. I was thinking about it after I wrote the above and I do think it can be a good thing in small doses. And probably not from a superior.

I grew up in that culture, the difference is if a man makes you uncomfortable, it’s not his fault. You are the one at fault, for causing him to sin and you sure as fuck better swallow your shame and bury it real deep. Speaking up or speaking out means admitting to your own sin, and it seems to me that most choose…

Exactly. I like you.