You are describing a functioning alcoholic, not a female alcoholic. Alcoholism is a progressive disease, and some people are able to go years without approaching a bottom.

That IS nice, but I live in Texas and have a lot of trouble believing that an atheist/agnostic friendly group would be very easy to find in large swaths of the south. I can't even avoid the religion issue in secular workplaces. If I were an addict, I'd probably go for a non-AA treatment plan first in order to avoid…

I struggle with this. I had an abusive childhood myself, and I used to suffer from repetition compulsion. I'd get into the same fucking situation with an absent, occasionally abusive boyfriend, and then be very surprised that he was absent and occasionally abusive.

I sort of think "of course there are sexual predators in the groups, they're alcoholics. You should see them when drinking."

I think that the author is conflating self esteem and ego. You can have awful self loathing and still have a massive, out of control ego.

That happened with my great aunt. She traveled to Japan right after WWII and learned Japanese. Became a collector of art for midwestern museums.

She is a 40-60 year old lady. I don't think lesbians her age are liberally making passes at straight women. :P

I knew my dad was not fond of black people, but a couple weeks ago I explained why some Mexican Americans might decline to learn English and compared them to my Irish ancestors.

That's funny. Which book, if you know?

I think a lot of negs are supposed to work on your want to be socially acceptable or girly or whatever, so those of us who do not give a fuck end up just kind of confused.

Their explanation is even weirder than that.

I once got negged with "That guy [points to a guy he does not know is my friend] dared me to walk up to the prettiest girl at the party and ask for her number. Could you point her out?"

SO unhappy I went with Xbox360 and missed this.

I will probably still be buying a PS4 when the time comes. Every game I was really sorry to have missed out on this generation was a PS3 exclusive. Between Microsoft being forced to deliver a not-shitty product and the "meh" exclusives this generation and the one before it? Buh-bye.

I dunno, you break up with me via text and I wouldn't feel any obligation to withhold that info in public.

One advantage to marriage: divorce. People demonize divorce, but it's the breakup that fucking sucks. Divorce makes the process a lot more orderly.

I am late to the party, but as someone whose pits smell like, 30 seconds out of the shower, some people just have funky bacteria.

Just the thing to fix women: an app.

My dad's codependent like whoah, which is fine most of the time, but means that when we're together in big family settings and someone (especially my sister) doesn't feel like coping with something appropriately, he ends up yelling at me for not dropping everything for the person throwing the shit fit.

I would if he also displayed the social graces of an idiot by hitting on me in a professional setting.