DON'T JUDGE ME :)

I'm sorry I can't hear you. I'm drowning in high quality weed and thin mints right now. I'll get back to you soon.

Now I'm just imagining Bilbo Baggins running from Captain Picard in a lobster suit in a wheelchair.

For the clueless people:

Call me crazy, but if I were with an abusive man and decided to kill him, the very last thing I'd want to do is EAT him and literally have him inside of me, nourishing my cells and giving me life. That's just fucked up.

Wasn't the 'killing an abusive husband and serving him up as barbeque' explored well enough in Fannie Flagg's 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'?

dude, my cat looks more like Grumpy Cat than him. I need him so I can have two scowling, blue eyed faces to greet me when I get home, just like holidays at grandma's house.

Just as a point of fantasy reference, I'd like to point out a piece of cognitive dissonance I see constantly...

To me, a medical professional evaluating the accuser and saying she thought it was sexual assault carries more weight than Winston's roommate saying it seemed consensual to him.

You could buy a lot of lottery tickets with $550 mil.

I'm reading Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and loving it!

I have a lot of points I want to make about this article, and the multiple "the WIC is BAD BAD BAD and YOU SHOULD HATE IT" articles that Jez continues to post. I am pretty sure my comments are still in grey, and I am going to put up some points that most readers are going to think are bullshit, so I'm only partially…

"Not in a protected class" does not mean "Incapable of being victimized." Totally gross, Ms. Silberkleit.

I know the article states he's in the feminine role, but there is no "e" on the end of blond when talking about hair color, and the "e" only applies when referring to a woman with that hair color.

I know people hate on celebrities who do charity work; hell, I often do. But I've always respected Jolie's approach. Her celebrity highlights major humanitarian issues worldwide and brings media attention to them when they'd normally not get any attention.

How dare this young child use violence against a grown man who has emotionally abused her! How dare she laugh while her equally young friend photographs his penis, without considering the question of whether the same action would be appropriate if she were an older boy and her abuser a younger man! This young child…

I cannot believe the lengths people are going to to minimize this adult man'man's actions toward this kid while trying to maximize hers till we're having some huge serious discussion about VIOLENCE.

Beautiful. And thank you for reminding me (as I slog through 8th grade essays) that some of my students depend on school as a safe space. Even when they make me crazy, I just gotta throw love at their sometimes-strange, always-changing, middle school brains. This essay really shows the line that adolescents walk…

I don't understand all the questions about how to take this... it's her life. It's OK for it to be morally ambiguous. I interpret it as a child taking an empowering action against an abusive and inappropriate adult but you, reader, can interpret it however you like.

this was hard for me to read, and i'm really glad she had Darnesha with her.