I’m sorry to hear you had that experience. It seems like *most* people have a steep learning curve, so it is nonsense that someone would treat you like that. We’re all in the same boat! They should be welcoming to all. If you decide to give it another go, say hi to me -- still Seabassy over there.

Something feels extremely old about it in addition to it being so new and fancy I have no idea what is going on.

Thanks for sharing this. I just registered!

I hosted a Halloween party on Halloween proper, which fell on a Saturday that year. About 60% of the guest list also went out costumed bar-hopping Friday night, got shit face wasted and were too hungover to try again Saturday so they all last-minute cancelled their attendance.

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I went through a really weird friendship breakup because I also had a friend like this. She would go on 1-2 dates with a guy from OK Cupid and then tell him she loved him and start talking serious commitment stuff. Clearly the guys would be like “WHOA TOO FAST!” and sometimes bolt immediately, while some would be like…

This is very creepy and really sad and ultra-infuriating. That a guy who has harmed women in these ways is still out and about getting dates and new relationships. I hope he left your former-roomie alone and she feels safe and secure in her new situation. I’m sad for you that this experience also altered your sense of…

That’s creepy as shit! And very similar in so many ways. Thanks for sharing <3

And that Title X funding is going to fake clinics that lie to women to keep them pregnant even if they don’t want to be. It’s fifteen shades of fucked up.

“The abortion law mandates that free, legal and local abortion services are in place by March 31, 2020.”

Why? I work in abortion care. I think it’s pretty fucking cute that a stranger  heard that reply and was still excited to talk to me. It also cut the shit of getting to know someone only to find out they are anti-choice or squeamish about a legal and common medical procedure like you seem to be.

A Monday in June. I’m visiting from out of state for work and staying with a friend. She asks me to meet her at a dive bar after a long day and I don’t want to but don’t have a choice. She’s there with co-workers, they’ve all been drinking, and she’s canoodling heavily with one. I assume I’ll need to find somewhere…

I was friends with my ex. We’d even still take trips together with other friends. Then he reconnected with his high school sweetheart, they got engaged, and he was forbidden from seeing me. Then I got an invitation to their wedding and I was truly happy for them and excited to celebrate them with our other friends.…

“Pro-abortion” language-user here, as well as someone who works in abortion care. Thanks for your heavy lifting in this thread. I am stunned at all the Jez folks scrambling to defend this language which those of us working hard in this field debunked decades ago.

Yep, grew up in the Midwest and if you rushed from school (let out at 3:10 p.m.), could get home to watch Jeopardy! Wheel was on while we were cleaning up from dinner. Both were part of my daily routine like clockwork. When in Texas, Jeopardy was on in the evening and it was dark out — totally turned my world…

There are 2 things in Are You Afraid of the Dark that I think about on almost a weekly basis for the past ~28 years:

Ugh, I’m so sorry. My mom said she’d rather I be murdered than live through rape when I was a teen. Now that I’m an adult that clearly is a huge red flag for trauma she’s probably suffered.

Similar thing happened to my spouse while working at a coffee shop. Thought he was getting hit on, turned the business card over and the doc had written "take this to a dermatologist: melanoma biopsy immediately"

I’m a 35-y/o Millennial whose superiors are all smug Gen Xers, so I can’t comment on them being forgotten... because they are all around me all the time! But, to their credit, they always insist on paying for drinks at the forced-coworker-fun happy hours...so there’s that.

Quick edit suggestion: That’s not a SkeeBall machine. It is a SuperShot basketball game. The brand of the gaming company is SkeeBall. An ACTUAL SkeeBall machine would be quirky and a bit whimsical. A basketball game ups the douche factor, along with the slurpee machine.