I have a friend who is very religious and comes from an even more religious family. If anything, her belief in God makes her depression WORSE. She's always telling me how she feels like God thinks she's not a good enough Christian, so he's punishing her by making her sad and suicidal all the time. Her parents don't…
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A year or so ago I met a guy online and we seemed to get along great. We messaged back and forth for awhile, then moved on to texting. We had a really nice rapport and it seemed like our first date was going to go really well. We met up at a restaurant and I thought the date was going really well and we were having…
Funnnnn.
Texas. What state are you in? Last year I ended up working enough hours to be able to quality for some full-time benefits, so I got 18 days paid time off!
Even though this is pretty shitty of Juicy Couture, keeping people at "part-time" hours to avoid paying for benefits is really common in retail. I've worked retail for 7 years for two big companies and if you're a sales associate who is available to work full-time hours, managers will schedule you to work 38 hours -…
My friends and I planned the coolest bachelorette party for our soon-to-be-wed friend. We went to Sherwood Renaissance Faire outside of Austin and it was AMAZING. We're all really into Ren faires, so we all had really amazing costumes. Basically we just frolicked in a forest with other Renaissance people, drank…
Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't think this guy is remotely attractive?
That's a really insensitive thing to say to somebody. Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a recognized mental illness. While it may not be as serious as something like schizophrenia, many people are effected by it. Look, I know that college is hard. I'm not an idiot. But there's a difference between general stress…
Fuck you, dude. I'm a 20something girl with crippling anxiety and it's taken me almost 6 years get halfway through college, because even the SMALLEST amount of stress gives me panic attacks and makes me physically ill for days. Don't turn my experience into a need for attention or an excuse to be lazy or behave…
I love you.
Let's switch! We only get a handful of "cold" (mid-50s) days here Houston, so I'd gladly take your place in a snowstorm. I need my winter! Also, it's 90 degrees outside today. It's too early!
THANK YOU. I grew up going to a school affiliated with a certain megachurch in Houston and I got so sick of claiming that homosexuality was evil because "it's in the Bible!", while ignoring that fact that Jesus never even mentions it. These same people also chose to ignore the whole "all sins are equal in the eyes…
I have a really beautiful vintage peacoat with a giant rabbit fur collar. It's from the 40s! I don't feel bad about wearing it because it's so old and I really don't see how the fur industry could benefit from my purchasing a 70 year old coat.
THANK YOU. It really grinds my gears when people think that being a feminist means you support all women, all the time. My mother and I have had conversations like this about Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. She always wants to tell me that if I'm a feminist I should be happy for all women in power, even if you…
The same thing happened to me the other night! I was at a bar with a friend and this group of guys kept trying to talk to me while she was in the bathroom. After I had told them I wasn't interested and that I was just waiting for a friend, they started saying things like "Well I thought you were hot, but that was…
I joined a women-only gym after another member at my old coed gym started staring at me every time I worked out, following me around the gym, cornering me by the locker room and telling me he liked the way my tits bounced while I was on the elliptical, and eventually following me home from the gym. I told the staff…
This essay makes me feel like I'm not a good feminist for liking glittery nail polish. Is that fair? Some of us are perfectly capable of obsessing over a feminist article in The Atlantic AND geeking out about nail polish.
Ugh, me too. Did you read the article that Texas Monthly did about this? It was fantastic.
I don't really understand what's so horrible about this? Sure, a box with book spines glued to it is sort of a dumb craft, but she isn't harming anyone. I've done some really cool crafty things with old books around my house. Instead of using wallpaper, I used old book pages to cover one of the walls in my bedroom…