I’ve begun and deleted comments three times now. I have no words.

I think it’s a typo. They meant ‘unified sense of frustration'.

Hey, I left my green bin open in remembrance.

His name was Conrad, you insensitive clod.

Cox is beautiful and does amazing work. But can we agree that it’s possible to care about more than one person at once? And that actually, it’s Jenner’s conventionality which has made her public transition so important? Cox was in the public eye only after her transition. Jenner’s coming out has been something very…

A note from Rose when I asked her about using Burma in this piece, rather than Myanmar; may be useful if anyone’s curious:

I get mad when people go on the “fighting for your freedom!” rant. Was that person in WWII? Then they were not fighting for my freedom. I respect our troops who contribute to our country in a way I can’t and wouldn’t, but nobody in Saudi in the 90’s was “protecting my freedom”. It gets my back up.

omg did you just solve depression? Mind blown.

I think so - I was always on the verge of tears for someone or something. I've had to work at being LESS empathetic. For my mental health.

I seriously can’t step on a fucking ant without feeling bad. Here’s the ant, living it’s ant life, going about it’s ant business, and here’s me with my giant feet killing it for no purpose whatsoever. Like when people talking about vegetarians killing plants, and don’t you feel bad for plants? YES I DO D:

They didn’t call it the Golden Rule, but they really taught it to us in my elementary school and I really took it to heart. It was an emotional slap in the face the day in second grade when Christina Some Greek Last Name mocked me for something and when I said “Think about how it would feel if it were you,” she…

I do think that some people come by it more naturally than others, though. I remember being a young child and pulling up grass, then feeling the dead material beneath it. I think that’s when the reality of “everything dies” hit me, and i hit hard. I used to cry because there were so many endangered animals I couldn’t…

I know everyone thinks they’re special, but I am in many ways a statistical outlier. Not so much special as fucking weird. And I think deeply desiring that other people be more empathetic towards me has made me quite empathetic towards others. Also, being such a freak of nature I kind of have to be empathetic just to…

The older I get, the more I feel I could actually empath myself to death, if I’m not careful. I struggle so hard with what other people might think and be motivated by that I sometimes butt right up against what they’re actually thinking which is quite different from what I’ve assumed. I offend a lot of people that…

Candian income tax is ROUGH, dude

ngl, sometimes I listen to 212 to get psyched when I don’t feel rude and sassy enough to deal with life

Yeah, mom here, and let me tell you after I had my son EVERYONE told me that I could just “let myself go.”

I have to say though, when you do these little small gestures. It really does matter to some of us. I still remember the free hershey pie that I got after Burger King messed up my order, on a particularly terrible day, a few years ago. The wait on the order made me late for something I had to do, although I can’t…

:sigh: Exactly..I guess my love of Poor Nerd Molly fogged my memory on how to spell Kirsten’s name.

I used to run into a similar situation almost nightly. We had a happy hour buffet that was free w/ the purchase of two drinks, or you could pay like $12 or something.