Back when the general consensus was that meanie feminists forced Joss Whedon off Twitter with their witchery, I remember being really pissed off because no one ever acts like women being hateswarmed on Twitter means the Internet needs to go to its room and think about what it’s done. Hell, Cecily Strong deleted her…

Motion that no one gets their nails done unless they can afford to tip 100% tbh

THEY REMOVED THE CAMPAIGN!

Maybe among evangelical Christians it hurts...but I don’t think most secular people give a flying fig who is fighting for them so long as its somebody.

I would think that peer reviews need to be reviewed. It sounds like a lot of abstraction, but the source itself of the reviews need validation.

Let’s get this out of the way – tea bags suck.

Let’s get this out of the way – tea bags suck.

I’m increasingly convinced that knowing the right people is the only way anyone gets ahead in the US. We are not a meritocracy.

How does anyone find this even a little surprising? I went to a boarding school on the east coast (trust me, there was much scholarship money involved), and I can’t think of a single legacy who *didn’t* get into their parent’s alma mater, including the ones who never would have gotten in otherwise. It was a given, and…

Wait, wouldn’t that be a poor test to make your point, since the money would mitigate the physical unattractiveness? So you’d quite possibly end up with a similar number of return messages? Depending on what you mean by “successful”.

The idea of leagues can really be differentiated by where a person is in their life and what stage of life they expect their partner to be in. When I was 22; still in college, working part time and living at home with the ‘rents; I started dating this amazing girl who was 6 years older than I was, out of college, in…

Yeah, anti-inflammatories would work at the site...can I blame it on typing too fast for my brain?

I don’t know how it gets paid for, to be honest. She certainly has insurance. I think that because she does exhibit uncontrollable hyperventilation (which she is aware of) and a serious panic attack (which the doctors are aware of), she has medical basis for being there, so the insurance could cover it. I’ve never…

This is a very well-written, interesting article. I wish Jez posted more articles like this.

Show some empathy.

The thing is, you CAN put someone on opioids for the rest of their life. It's just not societally acceptable. A close member of my family was a psychologist, and knew of many, many people who lived pretty normal, functional lives while totally hooked on all sorts of things.

No, that is the mental illness. Show some empathy.

The fact that their symptoms are bound to psychiatric disorder does not lessen their pain but enhances it.

I bet the Germans or Finns have a word for that feeling when you really wish you had known about a thing before you picked your major/thesis subject/etc.

You don’t think the cultural idea that mental illness isn’t “real” illness has anything to do with how these patients perceive their condition?

Because ‘Murica