Don’t even know what to say to you :-( Many hugs.

Wait, no, thats a terrible story for the point youre trying to make. Your friend expressed some fucked up views and it would have been totally in your right then to correct her because that’s not just a slip of the tongue, thats a mindset that whiteness is the default of worthiness. That shits racist. I mean I guess…

I recently went to the cops to report a rape that happened to me while I was asleep. A guy who I’d been having an on/off thing with, which whom I’d had consensual sex with a condom earlier that night, waited until I was asleep, pulled out my tampon (I started my period just before bed), and I woke up to him inside me…

Two things:

“Carol the waitress, Simon the fag”

Except that the takeaway from that is that a young person was so warped in her perception of race and people that in order for her to “understand” racial “equality,” she had to assign the value of whiteness to everyone. Those folks were racist as hell, best of intentions notwithstanding. Bigotry is often cloaked in…

At first I was like, “What is offensive about this?” But then I thought about if snapchat had a blackface filter and she posted “INSTA-BLACK PERSON,” and told myself to shut the fuck up.

Oh, I totally get it. It still happens when I get nervous or don’t feel confident about my topic. Even when I do feel confident, I’m still not an elegant writer. So I’m learning to just write freely, then step away for a while, come back, and edit out my bad habits. It didn’t come easily, but I now cringe at stuff I…

I used to write like this; it was a crutch through those after college-early grad school years when I desperately felt like I needed to prove myself. Eventually, I grew out of it. I’m still a wordy writer, but I at least have the skills to go back and truly edit. It’s so condescending to say that she’ll grow out of…

YEs yes. I want to know what she’s getting at, I do. I am trying. But it’s exhausting to read.

I am a WORDY writer when I try too hard. Sometimes I look back on stuff I’ve written and go “GAH NO CUT ALL THIS” and realize I’ve created a word salad that was meant to sound prettier than it is. It’s not that I don’t use…

Well I’m not sure if I wrote that for her or wrote that for me but fuck it, it’s almost 5 and I have a pack of smokes and a half bottle of red with my name on it.

ok ok I feel really bad for how the commenters are treating this piece at the moment, so let me just say....even though I didn’t like it, a lot of the harsher comments are just us being jerks. Everybody here likes being the funny asshole and it runs away with us. It takes guts to write something and have it out there,…

Initially, like the other commentors, I was having a tough time giving this article a chance, but I decided to go back and reread and it and my God, I feeeeeeel this on a deeeep level right now.

Excellent parenting! Conversely my 4 year old nephew is really shy but naturally just crazy-adorable and everyone always wants to hug him. His mom taught him early on that if he doesn’t like something being done to him he has every right to tell them to stop.

It’s a mother’s responsibility not to raise a rapist.

Every time I read something where a woman doesn’t support another woman who was raped, I just...want to close the door on the world.

So not only is her rape her own fault for being a bad communicator, but now the fact she’s gotten shitty advice is her fault because she wrote Dear Abby (the longest lasting and most well known of any of those you mentioned) instead of someone else? C’mon now.

*HAPPENIS*

Between his stance on abortion and this position on dildos Cruz is dangerously underestimating the trollop voting bloc. I really want to make bumper stickers that say “I’m an irredeemable slut, and I vote.”

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