By all means! Riley is currently accepting pets on all his brown, dark brown, and black spots.

Given how many rapes he committed, I’d say this is far from what he deserves. But since he could only be convicted for one, this is about as much as we could hope for (even in the US, a surprising number of convicted rapists get off with a slap on the wrist).

This is amaaaaazing! I had been preparing myself all day for rage that the “poor, old, blind man” would only serve house arrest in the house where committed his crimes.

Bye, Felicia gif party!!

Oh nooooo! But...but at his age, this means he’ll probably die in prison!

I bet he blames all this on those damn young people who won't pull up their pants and wear their hats backwards.

My coworker is grandmother to AN INFANT girl, and the whole family is already calling her Bessie, Chunky, etc. She’s healthy, just large. And 9 lb babies and tall women run in the family. I’m like, don’t be surprised when this kid’s brother starts calling her a porker, or she has an eating disorder by the time she’s…

I think it’s just a really tough time for girls, and I don’t know that social media makes it worse than it used to be because I grew up without that and it was pretty bad as well. It’s different for sure but I don’t know that it’s necessarily worse. Even without social media, 11 to 14 were some of the roughest years…

I bet a lot. It’s the same age most of us showed up at school with new rules on strap width, short length and cleavage patrol, if you had it.

I’ll never forget being sent to the office because my khacki shorts from fricken Old Navy were just a smidge to short. I was a good kid (there’s that perfectionism the article…

I can’t help but notice that women I know who attended all girl schools don’t seem to have as big a drop in all their personal interests in favor of people pleasing behavior.

Speaking from my own experience only, that had nothing to do with it. In my case, the drop in self-confidence had more to do with the onset of puberty and developing at a faster rate than the girls in my class and feeling like I needed to hide my new body and weight to fit in, and just an intense sense of awkwardness…

This. I developed overnight @12 from a child to a child with the body of Rihanna (I’ve lost it since.) I can remember the exact moment my view of my body changed. A man @ the grocery store looked at me when I was reaching up for a can of peas, in a way id never experienced before. He was lusting after me and it…

Senior year was a beautiful thing, right? I tranferred schools for the last time of several, and I just started doing whatever I wanted. Dated 3-4 guys I met through different interests at the same time, only did things I liked/wanted to do, didn’t give a rip about anyone else’s thoughts on anything.  It felt so…

I remember in middle school and high school, I would only answer the teacher’s questions if asked directly—never if they asked the whole class. I had learned that if I got the question right, the other kids would make fun of me for being a know-it-all, while if I got it wrong, they would make fun of me for being a…

Yeah, I was wondering about this - puberty for women is also around the time they (usually) start receiving harassment from their male peers and adult men. Surely this has a huge (negative) impact on them?

I got labeled mouthy in middle school and high school by teachers. Guys would be called spirited debaters and I would get called a nag or whiner. Then the criticism about my body started and it was too much. I got quieter until senior year when I ran out of fucks to give.

I wonder how much of this may also be attributable to this being roughly the age many women report first getting sexual comments and cat calls from/being sexually harassed by boys and men.