Even my gigantic 18lb cat lets me hold her like this (though I don’t like to do it for long *just in case* her size makes it cause her discomfort, though there's no indication of that). She also lets me bury my face in her tummy and blow raspberries, which is hilarious. 

And I hope people who have BPD aren't negatively affected by you describing relationships with them as "situations", and making some pretty crappy claims about what relationships with folks who have BPD "tend" to be like 

Amen. AMEN.

She’s also gross and anti-Semitic. Yuck.

That was amazing - thankyou, my dear fellow-British Columbian, for doing an incredibly hard job and saving people like this.

Jezebel. Hey. A guy murdered 10 people in Toronto apparently because of his misogynist beliefs. Why aren’t you guys talking about this?

Psychopathy is actually considered separate from mental illness. Psychopathy can largely be boiled down to a complete absence of empathy. That’s not a mental illness.

I literally AM an unarmed, 5 foot tall woman, and no, I do not ‘bug out’ when alone around people with mental illness or others displaying ‘odd’ behaviour - because I actually know some of the facts rather than the stigma. For instance, I know that a plain ol’ normal-seeming young white guy is more likely to harm me…

“Isn’t anyone who’d murder the innocents she’d been looking after and loving for over two years insane by any measure?”

Up here in Canada we had the Jian Ghomeshi case, and it was indescribably infuriating.

I’m a criminologist, my literal job is studying the justice system, and I still can’t believe how fucking cruel and messed up it is. The adversarial system, the shit we let lawyers do, the completely invalid assumptions they operate on (eg that small discrepancies are suspicious instead of completely normal)... Fuck.

This may have had to do with the weather, too. It’s still miserably cold and snowy around there, and that can mess up the roads so quickly, and so badly. If there’s black ice (I have no idea if there was, and this is utter and absolute speculation), and you try to hit the brakes without realising it, especially a…

Bekah is cute as a button and my little bi heart is smitten.

Hi, I’m a criminologist! I study - and teach about - crime for a living! Yeah, it’s boys. We’re doing gun control to keep guns out of the hands of guys. Guys commit the vasssssssst majority of murders, assaults, all violence and actually just flat out all crimes except sex work (in places where sex work is illegal).…

Thankyou for posting this! Bertuzzi was my favourite pplayer as a kid and young teen - a point in my life where my clinical depression was so severe that being obsessed with hockey literally helped keep me alive. I cared a heck of a lot about Bert, and the Moore incident was horrific on all sides. I’m aso glad to see…

Poor, dear, long-suffering, goofy Ron McLean.

Good man. He was a lovely person back when he was with Vancouver, and I’m ao happy to see this.

Virtue and Moir just... dang. They make me gasp. They are so gorgeous and emotional and astounding. Utter artists.

Please also mention that less than a year ago Mark McMorris nearly fricking DIED - bashed into a tree, was in critical condition in the ICU, had a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, 6 broken ribs, a broken arm, a broken back, and a fractured pelvis, and spent months learning to walk again - and here he is on the podium.

I am soooooooo unsurprised to see my university on there repeatedly.