Japan has a million deeply ingrained cultural distinctions that contribute to the prevalence of suicide there—and a lot of them go back long before they had guns there.

Specifically in the case of high-achieving girls girls like these, rates of suicide by gun are extremely low. Men tend to choose that option far more than women do. I’m as unhappy with American gun policy as you are, but let’s not confuse the issue.

“I JUST DO THINGS”.

I love this story. Also, I would rather be in a plane FILLED with people furtively fucking in secret under blankets than have a kid kicking the back of my seat. Or be seated next to someone chatty. Fuck on, star-crossed roommates of the world!

He mostly just talked fast and spastically about how scared he was and how we were all gonna die interspersed with weird attempts to hit on me.

I am a bit phobic about air travel. I’m the spazzy person who white knuckles the arm rest and goes into meditative breathing anytime the captain mentions it’s time to buckle up because we have some turbulence ahead. But twice now I have been seated next to the only person on the plane who was more afraid to fly than I…

No, we shouldn’t get banned for criticism leveled at horrible posts. Writers should be able to take what they get when they make their work public.

can someone tell us the full story? I don’t understand.

I want them to unblock our jezzies

For what? Can you say without self-risk?

Really? REALLY?

I think, to remain thematically consistent, in this case you would have to use “clam jam”.

Why did it have to be a seafood truck.

I early await her next post by Chekov.

This post... this post, ... it had EVERYTHING!!!!

I don’t. We don’t like to acknowledge that evil isn’t obviously evil 100% of the time because it doesn’t fit with the black and white way our brains are designed to view the world, but that doesn’t make it less true. It is entirely possible—and even likely—that he never did any of that stuff at home, purely exercising…

Doesn’t this kind of make you wonder what’s been happening in their marriage? Some of his heinous behavior must spill over into their marriage. Abuse? Non-consensual sex? Drug use? I find it impossible to imagine that they’re living a 1950s-’Leave it to Beaver’-esq lifestyle while this is going on.

it’s disheartening. this kind of “spousal dedication” and unwillingness to come to terms with what is actually fucking happening, is just so sad to me.

Trying to save face makes you say really stupid things, Camille.