Yes, our local craigslist is where a lot of these animals are being bought and sold for “gifts” and then mysteriously can’t get ahold of the people who sold the animals when the buyers don’t want them. Not that anyone should expect an animal you bought from a stranger on the internet is returnable.

I want to know how the general public doesn’t know this stuff to the point that they still want to give pets as holiday gifts. Or do they know and just not care? What breaks my heart the most is hearing when adults “punish” their kids for not taking care of a family pet by giving it away. 

That breaks my heart to think about, but we have the same issue in rural farmland areas around here. People dumping dogs. I have a cat who was left with its litter, as super young kittens, in a box in a fast food parking lot. She was the only one to survive and ended up being the “resident cat” at a vet’s office.…

I live in the Midwest and my neighbor works for our county animal control. In the past 5 days their population of dogs, cats, ferrets and chinchillas has gone up four-fold. Can you guess why?

Exactly. I have also lived in rural Illinois near a factory (not food, but still employed thousands of migrant laborers). What you’re speaking of is exactly what infuriates me. White folks in these areas rely on the labor produced by these migrants to live and eat. They say shit like, “Well, Juan down the street, he’s…

As a former Iowan, I get so angry at anti-immigration and anti-illegal-immigration rhetoric spewed both from inside and outside the state. Corn, beans, pigs. It is hard, backbreaking, exhausting, smelly, disgusting work. You know who doesn’t want to do that work for the wage the farms offer? White people.

I’m a sex educator. I had a teen mom in one of my classes who said she was surprised she got pregnant because she’s allergic to sperm. I asked her to elaborate. “Every time I have sex and stand up the sperm leaks out of me.” That was her whole explanation. She (and the rest of the class) didn’t know that semen can and…

Hi! I’ve been a sex educator for 16 years.

Exactly. I want to know what “natural causes” kill a 61 year old.

That is terrifying. I’ve never feared small spaces or being crushed to death until my husband told me a similar story of his overnight shifts at UPS were someone tried to sneak a nap in a trailer that was being loaded and woke up to a major painful injury after a bunch of shit fell on him when the truck started moving.

My husband went to the emergency room in 2014 with extreme pain in one of his testicles to the point he thought he was going to pass out. He was worried about a hernia, torsion, or cancer. The pain was so bad he could not wait for a traditional office visit 3 days away.

I don’t know man, if someone is going to pull off androgynous fashion, that bone structure is the stuff. I didn’t realize Ezra — who I appreciated in City Island and We Need to Talk About Kevin — was out there doing this thing, but they worked with Tilda Swinton at an impressionable age. So if they want to be out…

Da fuq?? Worst friend award goes to...

I am so pissed off on your behalf. Did you ever get to share your feelings with that friend?

Jesus fucking Christ.

Yeah none of my friends remembered this character when I told them about years long reoccurring nightmares. That image makes me want to vomit in fear. Writing this out I've been worried about bringing the nightmares back.

Ah, I’m doxxing myself because my friends all know this story. I waited until daytime to write it because it scares me so much.

Exactly. And if you read his comment history he's got some other creepy comments on multiple forums. Gross.

Just want to send you thanks for saying all of this, it needed to be said and dude cherry-picks which part of your criticism he wants to contest (gas tank vs. engine) instead of your extremely valid points about re-victimizing an assault victim....because it’s so obvious he’s a lonely liar and/or terrible person.

Omg right? Trying to read these in a phone, and most have so many extraneous details and language, I lost interest and just came to the comments section to see if I was being ridiculous. It was a big snooze fest.