I agree. and while we’re on the subject, those singing bowls just hurt my ears. I literally had to wrap the blanket around my head at the last class. I was right next to it, but still.

I can’t stand the term “schoolgirl” to begin with. How is a “schoolgirl” different from a girl? it nearly always has some kind of sexualized subtext.

my daughter and her friends had a bunch of barbies, but one they specifically designated “torture barbie” who they would throw against trees, stomp on, pull the limbs off, etc. when they played in the woods. It was mildly horrifying but none of them turned out to be a serial killer, so. But I later had a landscaper…

I guess I didn’t think about the privacy issues very much - I work in tech and it bothers me more that google presents me with ads that appear to be connected to the content of my emails. But you have a point. I have stopped using most of the retail loyalty cards because I just don’t like that idea anymore, regardless…

I’ve been single and on and off dating sites for almost 20 years. I already know a boatload of people because I’ve had high profile local and community roles, and none of them were suitable for dating. I have several acquaintances who had been married multiple times. How did they keep finding people to marry? I…

Shouldn’t ‘coming from a good family’ make it WORSE that somebody is a rapist? Like, he came from a ‘good family’ and STILL raped somebody? SMH.

There is an awesome book that fictionalizes that exact incident as well as Capote’s friendships in that era. “Swans of Fifth Avenue” - I listened to it last year. So good!

I have dated not one but TWO men in the past five years who were in their late 50s and didn’t understand why they should have sheets on their beds. I wish I was making that up. Imagine my horror at the bare mattress with a grimy comforter bunched on top .... The BF I finally found [at age 61!] not only has sheets but…

THIS on the positive last memory. <3

I am so sorry. That is an awful shock to your system. Be kind to yourself and don’t do anything you don’t want to do for a little while. Wish I could hug you. 

it might be too late to reply to this - just saw your question looking at my account. I was a teen/young adult in the 70s. There was very much an attitude of ‘it’s no big deal’ in the kinds of jobs I had then [retail, restaurant]. And no processes to address it. Sexual harassment wasn’t even a TERM yet. It never…

I was always so self conscious about them - i’m Italian and have a pretty good crop. I shaved them forever because plucking OUCH. I stopped before I met my current guy .... and he loves them. He actually told me he thinks they’re sexy. He also likes my thighs. I am living a romance novel.

I almost forgot about Grumpy Cat! I once read a funny sci-fi novel where the alien leader came to earth demanding to meet him. I was doing yardwork listening to it and almost cut off a toe. 

All I can say is, I sure would have!

I want to watch this over and over. I wish I could think of something witty to say but I want to be her best friend!

Thank you! I am almost embarrassed to say it but I’m crazy for him. We are dangerously close to being Schmoopie. And there is sex!

I’m an old as well - 61. Remained single for a long time as I raised my daughter, and thought I’d stay that way - built a great single life with friends, volunteering, etc. Then I met this amazing man and I feel like I’m living in a romance novel. It’s weird because I’ve always been the hardass single chick. No idea…

It’s unfortunate but that is in fact how it was. How many times I laughed off borderline rape so as not to sound like a crybaby....

There is a horrifying facebook page called “Sandy Hook Hoax” that I wish I had never seen.