Know what I do when a guy rejects me? Criticize myself, angry self-loathing about not being good enough. Know what a lot of men (that I’ve experienced personally and studied in psychology) do? Criticize her, anger that she doesn’t want you. Is this all men? Of course not. Is this pattern of internalization vs.…

I certainly have enough diagnosed mental illness to qualify as ‘crazy’ and IT DOESN’T MEAN YOU CAN BE A DOUCHE WITH IMPUNITY.

Gave a guy a polite ‘no thank you’ today and he hit me back with ‘ok, well you seem awesome and I wish you the best of luck!’... I’m honestly still processing my disbelief. That this surprises me less is SO FUCKED UP.

Even if she had taken her kid to a bar or used her kid as an armrest while she shot up etc. etc. (wildly irresponsible parenting behavior that I am NOT advocating) the fault here would STILL lie with the dude who got rejected and shot a mother and her baby.

ABSOLUTELY the impulse is to distance yourself from this horrible thing happening to people via magical thinking (she got raped/killed because X so if I don’t do X it won’t happen to me).

Had the child been at home because the mom couldn’t work that late it would be people bitching about how she needs to stop being lazy and abusing welfare. You fucking can’t win. Let’s shame the toddler for her choices rather than the homicidal fuckboi...

Shoutout to the Alpha Delta (local fraternity) chapter at Dartmouth College! It seems apropos to mention that the evil Omega House portrayed in the movie is in fact based on our SAE chapter...