Everything I need to know about purity culture, I learned from Elizabeth Smart.

Hi, German here. “Bumskopf” would be the word for someone who gets bumped on the head a lot. (It’s also synonymous with “someone so stupid they bump themselves on the head a lot.”)

“Mack DOS” does make a certain perverse sense.

Lover’s quarrel. Who’s with me on this?

“We don’t want any assholes around us,” she said, before laying out precisely how to avoid the classic Hollywood problem of a room full of assholes and potential sexual predators intent on maintaining their power via intimidation.

Real talk. Sometimes I look at things like that and think, if I had gone through that in my early 20s, yeah, I’d probably just throw my hands up and grant permanent conservatorship to my dad, too.

I work in abortion care in Texas and have been following this case very closely. I work with (and know personally) the staff at Jane’s Due Process - and they are really really incredible people doing marvelous work. They are the agency that helped her with her bypass and obtaining the abortion. Please give them money…

No one decided that I had to get married while still child. In that respect, I am better off than 12 million girls under the age of 10 that are married in India. And in the US it is teenagers marrying with parental or court permission, not “leaving it up to hormonal teenagers”. So yeah, it really is so much better…

I imagine it takes a LOT of time, energy and money. Three things I have in short supply and am unwilling to spend in order to look “pristine”. Then again, I am not paid to keep up those kinds of appearances. Your average social media celeb is. Don’t know about your fellow bridesmaids, though.

Aaaaand bingo: People who hashtag “grateful” are the exact type of people who would like a sorority.

A more fitting punishment is to tell them they are getting 5 years probation and then jail them for a year. That would be a great reaction vid.

That disco ball is there because of me! My company works with his architect and I was tasked with sourcing and ordering that giant gold disco ball.

Don’t drag Cucumbers into this- he actually taught English to refugees before going full time into acting.

Bargain bin Benedict Cumberbatch ass

Yes because when you want to have a romantic proposal the 20th Anniversary of your mother’s death in a car crash really has those wedding bells ringing /s

Her stepsister was my babysitter growing up. They were not secretive about it. It’s interesting to me that it’s so hush hush now.

One of these people is very talented, and the other is Morrissey.

My dad has had a moustache and beard for my entire life. When we were little my sisters and I tried to get him to shave it off because it was itchy when he hugged us and he told us he couldn’t because he didn’t have a face underneath the hair. Now I am a grown-ass adult but I still shudder inside when his wife talks…

I shared this story on Jezebel before, but it was a long time ago, so might as well tell it again:

One time I was arguing with my boyfriend on AIM (lol), and my dad walked in and saw me crying. I was so upset that I didn’t tell him why I was crying. Being my dad and not knowing what to do about my emotions, he left the room and came back with $60 in cash, then laid it down next to my computer and left. Thanks, dad.