Yeah, I’m sure that they would react with total serenity if this happened with them. I’ve seen enough entitled fuckwads in restaurants blow their shit over minor problems (no substitutions, no extra sauces) to know that internet trolls would have reacted with anger, fury, and indignation over being asked to get off a…

I’m always grossed out by people who use the word traumatized when they really mean: slightly embarrassed/sad/disappointed/ashamed. Real trauma means you struggle to function because you’ve been so tortured mentally, physically, or spiritually. Not that your dumb, shallow ad was called out for being dumb and shallow.

Oh man, I am always sad when I have to get things on Amazon. I’ve really tried to stop shopping so much on there and to patronize my local shops, but it’s meant cutting way back to go to smaller places. A book on amazon can run $7 while the local place will have it for $17. We don’t have a lot of money, so little $10…

I used to love their website. But the last few times I’ve bought something from there it took forever to arrive and forever to return. When it did arrive, the sizing is so off now, and the prices are ridiculous! $120 for a cotton dress that can’t be washed?! I used to get solid work dresses on there for $40 when the…

Fellow poor/rural kid here. I lived in a microscopic town in Indiana and this is absolutely where I had to buy clothes/food/everything else. Even when I moved to DE, it was still the primary option, as I lived in a really rural part. When I moved to a city to do grad work, I was surprised by all the elitist snobbery…

See, from my perspective, I see: A) contacts in the media (she’s been on so many different talk shows) B) an entire television crew or at least former contacts in a television crew C) skills enough, but in different areas. As someone said above, I’m not sure who wouldn’t give her a book deal saying she ran away. I…

Ha, you’ve called me a dick! I really, really hope that she follows the many other men and women who have escaped social pressure, religious pressure, and stark poverty to get their kids and themselves out of a bad situation. I pity her and fully recognize the batshit crazy religious life she’s had. But I don’t agree…

Are you a troll? I do 100% think Brad was wrong. What I also thought was wrong was how horribly Angelina has been treated (partially by this site’s own commenters, who argued she was a fame whore/attention whore) given that she protected her kid. Also unfair as shit: you continuing to misconstrue what I’m saying.

I don’t think it will be simple either: my brother lives with my parents; he gets money from them; they are his only “friends.” This is so common, unfortunately, as the smaller your world is, the tougher it is to get out. I think I just get frustrated with the narrative that we use to apply to female victims of…

I hope they get out as well. I feel so fucking sorry for them. They live circus freak lives: everyone wants to stop and gape, laugh, and move on, and then the parents get rich from it (or at least used to); it makes me so sad.

And growing up in a household where a parent needs to leave and chooses to stay, so you are faced with that abuse daily, is also unfair. Everyone moans about the kids who will have to grow up with a dad who molested his sisters, but then just accept when the parent decides to stay. It’s not like I’m saying Anna needs…

And it turns out you can be reductive and generalizing! Yes, I feel sorry that she’s been raised in this situation. You don’t choose to grow up in a crazed, evangelical house. But abuse/psychological brainwashing is a cycle for a reason: people repeat the same behavior as their parents, and so on and so on without…

Um, abuse is brainwashing. And it 100% always feels normalized. That’s why abusive kids so often hang around their parents for so long (my brother STILL does this). It’s different; hers is steeped in religious guilt and she’s poorly educated, but when you believe your parent/partner will kill you for leaving, that’s…

I’m so proud of Elizabeth Smart, and I get really sad about the articles that skewered her for her remarks on porn. There’s nothing wrong with porn (so long as it’s consensual!!) but it doesn’t surprise me that someone would vilify the thing that was used to torture them, as everything associated with your abuser…

You can’t go wrong by loving your kid :) It made me stronger. I understand, sometimes, why people need to center their identity around victimhood: it can feel all-consuming, but at some point, you have to let it go and carve out your own narrative, or else, what was the point of leaving, if you stay in that place,…

I have no doubt that she’s not: this is routine for abuse.

It’s true that she’s brainwashed, but by that extent, so is he. I’m not minimizing that brainwashing: I grew up with a sadistic mother who abused me every moment of my day, took my money, didn’t allow me to drive, and once even called a college I got into to tell them I couldn’t attend because I had died...but I got…

And therein lies all the stupidity.

All the Trump supporters who benefit from the ACA who hoped he would laughably “do the right thing,” will be oh so disappointed that they will lose their medical insurance. This hopefully serves as a wake up call to all those who thought they could purge the people who wanted to help them with health care in favor of…

Sure, he’ll never change his ways and will only see the criticism as bullying (ironically). But I don’t understand why we’re skewering celebs when this isn’t their job. Let’s skewer the journalists who passively accept that microwaves are spying on us, rather than actually take a politician to task.