I don’t see anything actually wrong with the comment now. She was asked if she can understand movies from certain cultures, and her response was basically, “I don’t know much about the intricacies of the Middle East but I think we all share some commonalities and I understand the humanities in those films.” Maybe I’m…

The thing that I notice is that we’re all, there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture.

It’s a little more than “not exactly what happened.”

Obviously the point is to get them as close to naked as possible. It’s not like this has to do with swimming.

Fuck Snyder. He just got 90 mil in emergency funds and the best he can do is “treating the existing water”? He can’t even guarantee that money will go to Flint. There’s only so long that the rest of us can keep those people safe through donations.

Little House in the Big Woods really is great, isn’t it? That whole steady progression of preparing for winter—butchering the pig, smoking the hams, storing the pumpkins, tying up the onions—was so mesmerising to me as a soft city kid. It still is.

People really look for any excuse to cut this woman down. Holy eff. What is our problem?

I just wanted to thank you for doing this. There is something comforting about knowing that women want each other to be wise and safe.

I’ve given away sooo many copies of this book.

It also comes from the fact that a lot of women are told from an early age that they have to pair off to be “worth” something, that if they “want it” from the start, then they’re whores, and that they have to be nice and accommodating and considerate of what people feel.

I recently started talking with a lady on okcupid, and this evening, about a 45 minutes after sending a message, I sent her a second one to clarify something in the first — I wanted to make it clear that I’m currently employed even though I’d mentioned I spent some time over the weekend job hunting — and she got back…

YES. I second this.

That book came out around the same time a friend of my brother’s was going through a bad stalkery breakup...I had just finished it and immediately gave my copy to her.

Great book. One of the points is also that our “intuition” is our brains piecing together little bits of information in the background. Gut feelings are your brain telling you the puzzle adds up to something you should be wary of.

It’s SO ingrained.

The entitlement is so ridiculous and infuriating even when it’s not scary.

If folks haven’t read “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin de Becker, I recommend it highly. It’s about this inborn, highly-calibrated machine called “intuition” that we all have. Over the years, we learn to silence, dismiss and ignore our gut feelings, and we need to get back to paying CLOSE attention.

It is scary how common it is, aside from this guy I’ve had one ex rape me and another try to blow my house up with me in it. I think my upbringing normalised abuse, but I actually don’t think my abusive man rate is much higher than average. As you’ve experienced, these guys hide their evil well, and as a rule women…

I read somewhere, “The Gift of Fear” I think, about how men are told that “gut feeling” is legit while women are told that “intuition” is stupid. When really, it’s the same thing. Remember what teachers used to say about how the first answer you pick on the multiple choice test is usually right? LISTEN TO YOUR…

I was dating a guy. The first time i went to his apartment, he offered me a bottle of water. He opened this immaculate, perfectly organized fridge: Labels forward, rows like a military cemetery. It was some serious Sleeping With the Enemy looking shit. When he left the room, I checked the pantry. Same thing. It was…