You are a good person

Wow. I would not be close friends with those two again unless I had an unconditional right to bring up the weddings as evidence of their selfishness/complete asshole-ness. That you put up with that makes you a saint.

Thank you so much! I also love self-help books :) So optimistic... And yeah, I have been in therapy a couple years and had a lot of breakthrough moments where I finally saw what in my childhood was causing me to feel like I have to be emotional caretaker for others, can never assert myself, beat myself up all the time…

Do you remember the name of that book? Just wondering because I have a lot of those same issues (daughter of an unpredictable/ragey alcoholic) and have been looking for some reading about just what you described!

It’s weird because as a mostly straight woman I actually am quite enamored with women’s breasts, yet bulging pecs do NOTHING for me.

Pecs are The Tits

I love how appropriate your username is to this story

I feel like Jezebel writers love to go after the earnest actresses? Just thinking about all of the Anne Hathaway scorn. Which, whatever, obviously Jezebel is a snarky site and that’s what people love about it, I think I just feel the need to defend Natalie because I’m pretty earnest and I don’t want anyone hate me for…

True, I like Garden State. I was thinking more like No String Attached where someone tried to make us believe that Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher have chemistry.

I humbly volunteer to adopt Boo and Pistol. And Justin’s Beiber’s monkey while we’re at it

Why are we shitting on Natalie Portman all of a sudden? Is it because she said that relatively innocuous thing about not wanting her son to care too much about shiny gold things? Star Wars? It’s not her fault George Lucas turns all of his actors into cardboard cutouts. I love Natalie! Though I will admit romantic…

Ughh the tramp stamp sunburn! I am a farmer, I slather sunscreen all over the rest of me but always neglect that spot at least one sunny day. You’d think I’d learn... Did it last week and now I have a tramp stamp of blisters. Sexy.

Makes you realize how being drawn and quartered was ever a thing. I hope one day we humans manage our barbaric impulses, I like to imagine we are oh so slowly getting better...

You know they won’t though-__-

I’m sure some doulas cater exclusively to annoying crunchy rich people, but most of the doulas I know have very reasonable rates and specifically make their services available to women from all walks of life. My local hospital has a huge network of volunteer doulas that anyone can have present at their birth for free.…

For what it’s worth, I totally agree with you (except the part about there being as many insults for fat dudes as there are fat women). I also see an unpleasant trend of dissing guy’s looks as some sort of “equalizer” which I hate. I get it, we’re all bitter about being oppressed and reduced to our tits and asses, but…

Chris Traeger? Is that you?

Does that really make her a genius? Or just not very good at satire?

Joni’s Mitchell’s voice has provided me so much joy and comfort in some of the highest and lowest moments in my life. Whatever happens, I hope she is peaceful and not in pain. And knows how many lives she touched.

I have tears in my eyes after reading these, particularly the one from the reader in Sweden.