Yes, I know, there’s an entire tumblr of these types of reports. In my younger days, I dealt with a lot of crap, even though I was married. If I just wanted a drink after work, forget it, some dude was bound to invade my space, even though I was wearing a ring.

You gotta consider that for women, this can be the really scary point. This is how we talk to a LOT of people, particularly in situations that have potential to escalate. You’ve met a stranger, you don’t know how he’s going to react — follow you out? start shouting? start stalking you? start being violent? Start…

I knew driver training in Germany was really, really good.

The other real story is the obscene price of prescriptions in the U.S.

Could you do me a big favor and pin this article to top of every gawker website. for at least the next month?

Agreed! The sheer amount of customization is also awesome. It even lets me change the LED color that flashes on my phone per person, which lets me know at a glance if I should even check it.

stupidly harsh punishments will not prevent future crimes... Look at the drug war and mandatory minimum sentencing

Lol 10 minutes? I seem to remember Battle.net being DDoSed about every week last month. Blizzard’s servers were down at least one night a week for multiple hours because of it.

Never wash an old feather pillow. I tried that once. Never again. I should have known. It fell all apart in the washer. A lot to clean up. I should have just thrown the thing out.

I have a pitbull. And I have children. And I used to be one of these super “Its the people, not the dog” enthusiasts. But I’ve come to learn that it really is a little of both. Pitbulls were bred to hide their anxiety and aggravations. It’s harder to read their body language and tell that they are becoming annoyed or…

Ooh, I have four incidences to relate:

Except that quote is out of context. It was Schumer shooting down the neckbeard assholes who were body-shaming her and other women like her. She was confident and owning the body she’s in...which is exactly why I find Schumer and women like her sexy as hell. It ain’t the curves, it’s the brains and the take-no-shit…

Thanks for all the supportive comments, it’s unexpected and nice. I’ll tell my mom to read them.

Thank you for writing this, Aimee. I can relate so deeply to your story.

Thank you. Originally, trigger warnings were used by a small subset of society who spoke and wrote openly about traumatic abuse. The trigger warnings were a way for that community to be polite and take care of each other, by letting individuals either avoid content that might trigger PTSD, or prepare themselves…