Amazing. I feel like such a dipshit for hoping my mom outlives my dad just so I can tell her, but there you have it. Mom still calls me a slut for dating “that old man” whereas Dad was very accepting of it. So I’d love to throw in her face that she’s been regularly revictimizing me.

Oh, I didn’t take your comment as offensive at all. I just like to remind people that there are tons of reasons we don’t report.

Thanks. He’s actually fine now and he only plays nonsmoking venues. He’s in his mid-eighties so the damage was done decades ago.

Reporting shouldn’t be a death sentence to a career, but I know I’m sure as hell not risking it. And of course I didn’t respond like a good little rape victim and report immediately. I acted like the young woman who had been groomed by her professor over a course of years before he drugged and raped her. And given my…

Haha. My round face and giant boobs make me look like I’m about twice my size.

I misread that at first as actually blaming diabetics for their disease. Because let’s face it: soooooo many people blame diabetics for their disease. People really, really are assholes.

“Sorry you have this debilitating illness that makes you feel like you’re a total piece of shit and every ting is your fault.

I’m neither a mother nor a layabout, but I’d give this staying in bed thing a shot

The second when she looks over to the monitor and sees what happened to her was so painful.

Oh, that’s terrible then. Here’s hoping she learns to take care of herself emotionally so she can move on from this.

I’m relieved though. This seems kind of healthy to me, in an open, evolved way that I’m sure I’m not open or evolved enough to handle. It would be lovely if more couples with children could separate in a way where both parents can be this present, wouldn’t it?

Do we have confirmation of the guest house living situation from the wife? Because Mom’s friend has fallen for that one before.

Why does this work? I just don’t get it. If a guy wanted to sleep with me and told me he had a wife on her death bed, I’d slap him on her behalf.

Never meeting the friend or family is a BIG red flag. My first relationship was with a guy like this and I was convinced I never met them because I didn’t want to commit. It was definitely partially that -whenever he’d bring up taking me home for holidays I’d freak out and say I didn’t think we were ready for that…

What is it with guys claiming that their “crazy exes” are suicidal so they can’t be direct with them? If I had a nickel for all the guys who’ve tried this shit with either me or my girlfriends, well . . . I’d buy a sundae with my twenty nickels. And why won’t my friends ever believe that it’s bullshit? It’s always…

And once Peggy Hill shows up, I get to talk about how my grandmother was a Spanish teacher in Florida who didn’t really speak Spanish. She spoke about as well as Peggy Hill, as I learned when I accompanied her to a Mexican market on her search for chorizo. She tried to speak Spanish the whole time and nobody…

This is helpful information. I was not aware that you got coins in the battles. Maybe I'll choose a team after all.

Is that how you get more incense? I thought I got it at a pokestop but now I can never find it.

Someone who REALLY wants to get a picture of Beyoncé next to a Pokemon.

It’s weird as hell and definitely anti-woman.

That said, I try to get people to introduce me like this for a reason: I came to my field later in life than others did. If there are members of my audience who might think that they can never achieve in academia just because they spent their twenties working a strange…