none of that has come up in any articles I’ve seen.

How interesting that you feel that way. My therapist suggested a DV support group but I feel like it was so long ago that those living with it now would be annoyed with me for taking up their time. We both seem to believe we haven’t suffered enough to deserve the support of others. We may need to work on that! Your…

It’s such an odd thing. The emotional/sexua abuse I suffered was obviously real and very damaging. But, a broken arm or a black eye seem so “real,” so public. Having my phone confiscated, being threatened that I’d never see my kids again because I’d seen a shrink, being told sex was his “right as a husband,” those…

The thin thing is not just you here. Its pretty obvious he’s after outlier human thinness in women. And its okay to be attracted to Thin people — but using that attraction as a weapon against another person—- ugggh. makes my skin crawl.

Why am I already on the verge of tears???

“You can figure out how to be a positive person *and* have sad, complex emotions.”

Julianne references a very real phenomenon and how it impacts mental illness, in this case, how women are socialized to put up a front to the point where they ignore even their loved ones. If a man has a career, spouse, children, and social life, he is not accused of wanting to “have it all”. When he is depressed,…

I didn’t get the impression that this piece was about blaming men. I found it was about a multitude of factors contributing to someone who already had a mental illness, including our work culture – which yes, had been traditionally led by men. Career women are in a better position now than ever before, but we can…

I agree with you to a certain extent. Yes, it’s a mental illness, and should be treated just like a physical condition. But I do think being a woman, living under a patriarchy that devalues women, contributes to depression and anxiety. I don’t think this discounts the fact that it’s a mental illness, but it’s not a…

Cheerful happy-go-lucky people can feel suicidal, too. It doesn’t mean our happiness is just a persona. Suicidal thoughts, IMO, are a malfunctioning evolutionary impulse-a glitch in the brain. It’s a danger that many people face, not just people with chronic depression.

Does anyone else feel very emotional about this, even if they’re not Irish? Spent last night reading the #repealthe8th feed and crying. So happy that it looks like the right side won (for once).

Oh, The Passage. I mean its got the Mark Paul Gosselaar of it all and damn did he grow up good. But I found out that he grew up good from Pitch and there was that beard and Kylie Bunbury and then Fox canceled it so also: FUCK FOX!

My point was kind of that yeah, this bastion of conservatism and colonialism is coming unmoored from all that. It is not progressive but it is moving in the progressive direction. Some of them will embrace that more than others but change is here.

‘there is actually no motivation for fabricating the story’

Hmm I wonder why a black teenager selling weed would be evasive of the cops?

No.

He super didn’t, tho.

So what’s you response when they test the DNA under her fingernails and it’s someone else’s (her boyfriend)? Science is fake?

The podcast Crime Junkie recently did an episode on everything about Adnan Syed’s case that Serial didn’t cover. I can’t recommend it enough. In fact the whole podcast is awesome.

Test the DNA under her fingernails! Questions will be answered. (Her current boyfriend dis it, and his mother ans stepmother provided super sketchy alibis for him that full conflict.)