What’s frustating is that these days, people EXPECT you to have some sort of online profile. So people who are forced to keep stuff under wraps because of some vengeful asshole have to choose between their own personal safetly and their own career advancement.

Yeah, I’m sort of glad that I am just old enough to not be locked into facebook in a meaningful way, and he’s even older so he’s not sooo adept at social media. I have my stuff on lockdown these days, which is annoying becasuse I am a self-employed artist and writer, so I am trying tp figure out how to continue to…

I wasn’t in contact with my stalker ex when I got engaged or got married, but a year or so later he managed to find a photoset of my wedding on Flickr (since been taken down). He sent me a long winded email (via Flickr, I had blocked all his other emails for years) about he just HAPPENED to asphixiate a kitten that he…

I agree with what a lot of commenters have said, but I’ll also add that’s thinness is an ideal because it ties into the puritanical idea that sex and sexiness is base and undignified. Flaunting curves is like flaunting sex—look at how Sports Illustrated models are sneered at by fashion elites. Its also no coincidence…

If you have to follow what you have to say by “just sayin’!” you’ve just said (or in this case, drawn) something obnoxious and terrible, no exceptions.

Tylenol (acetaminophen) can be very dangerous to the liver, and thus should NOT be taken if you have a hangover or if are a heavy drinker.

I lived for a couple years in Jiangmen, which is about 90 minutes southwest of Guangzhou by bus (I love GZ so much.) It was nice, because it was small enough to be quiet and pleasant, but I could get to Guangzhou for a weekend if need be. I worked at a kind of podunk vocational college there, and most of my students…

Your dad was way cooler than my dad. We listened to a lot of Don McLean, James Taylor, Jesse Winchester, and John Gorka. Also once we had a set of tapes of old Garrison Keillor broadcasts, and I thought I would kill myself. I am a huge NPR listener, but at the sound of his voice I run and turn off the radio.

Exactly!

I worked at a college, and if I forgot my umbrella, students would rush to sheild me from the sun on the short walk from the classroom to the cafeteria. For them, watching someone go out into the sun without an umbrella was the exact same thing as watching someone go out into pouring rain without one!

I just moved back to the US from southern China, and it’s so weird to see people in the sweltering sun without an umbrella. It’s carrying your own shade! Get with it, Americans!

I’ve always thought that the outrage at the existence of the Kardashians had more to do with misogyny than anything else. (They aren’t the first people that are famous for being famous, and they are certainly not going the be the last.) I don’t watch their show or find them that interesting, but as fair as I can tell,…

You know absolute shit about addiction. People with substance abuse problems are not having a “grand old time.” They are suffering.

But that’s kind of a bonus, right? :D (Luckily my inlaws are old hippy-types and didn’t give a fuck.)

It's not like it's a fancy expensive luxury these days, either. You can get a basic android phone free with pretty much any cellphone plan!

My husband just got one the other day because his phone finally died. It was so annoying, because he’d feel all superior, but whenever we were out he’d be like “can you look something up on your phone?” “can I check my email on your phone?” “hey, can I see your phone for a sec...”

I made that exact comparison on a Franzen post here a while back!

Sarah Waters! Her books are mostly about lesbians, and I find them hot as a person who is 95% straight. Also they’re just great books.

Yikes, it said she was new, so that’s what I figured.

I hope she has tenure? This is exactly why the tenure system is still so important in academia.