It’s an odd comfort to know that others were in this same boat.

How about the one where I've been depressed for a year, I am under-employed, underpaid and not sure how to pay my rent and have unpaid bills, so I can't visit my cancer patient dad for the holidays?

I just want to let you know that you are a great fur-baby parent. I get it. I was there a year ago. It was the right decision but I miss her still now. I wish I could have done more for her now.

I really like this film. It wasn't even on my radar until Mr. Bitch pointed out a review from the escapist that was glowing.

This sounds heavenly. I'm so in!

I know that I'm late to the party on this article, but I just wanted to say a big HELLO from another Canadian girl who cried her eyes out in the middle of a panic attack waiting in line for The Wild Beast at Canada's Wonderland as a child.

You are very welcome. I had the same reaction you did and my next action was to get screen caps. There is just something so... honest? clarifying? mature? ...in this moment.

OK, it's been years since I've watched DOOL but this just made me smile about the times when I watched my stories on the regular. Those damn Dimeras!

I think that is why the Bishop was making eyes at Valjean the whole time. He's all "I was Valjean and now YOU are Valjean. I bestow Valjean-ness to you!"

This is very similar to my experience. My parent followed the books of James Dobson when it came to disciplining children. It was always very controlled which contributed to a normalization of this kind of violence.

And it can be just as damaging. As I have mentioned in response to the original post, I was spanked in this way and I feel that it left me frightened of my parent, deeply anxious, and angry. I also feel that it left me with a belief that tolerating pain from someone who claims to "love" me is acceptable.

I was spanked in this "controlled" manner and I can tell you that it kept me in line, but it also made me deeply fearful of my parent, anxious about what I might possibly be doing "wrong", and unexplainably angry until I started to put some pieces together later in life. My parent also explained to me that I was being…

Agreed. My hate can't run any deeper. How any "Christian" leader gets off telling people to physically abuse their children, I'll never know.

This guy reminds me of James Dobson and his books that teach Christian parents how to hit their kids... out of love, of course.

As an ex-Christian, now atheist, I just have to say that I have never understood this argument. If Christianity is so focused on Christ's teachings and claim that the Old Testament is therefore moot, why is it part of the holy book? If Christ and what he said is the only important part of the whole book, then why…

YES! Amazing! Yes!

THIS, and.... I have never forgiven him for standing up Anya on their wedding day. So fucking stupid. Ugh, here is the thing though, I get Xander... I get that he isn't sure who he is, that he represents the instability of masculinity and manhood in a world where women literally have Powers... I get it. And I actually…

Well, I'll throw my own blog into the ring for a desperate, totally lame self-plug. I, sadly, do not update much more than once a week at the moment. I write about chick-lit and women's literature from a feminist perspective.

I find her to be interesting as an intellectual project. I think what is most interesting is not to analyze what she says but how people react. She is playing everybody.