I’ve held back on getting the tattoos I’ve wanted for years because every shop I’ve ever been to has been a very masculine, elitist space. I just kept getting piercings at my local piercings only shop because they’re so nice.

If violent rapes and assaults are the only ones that count, that leaves an entire range of things that are just as traumatic without any language with which to process them. Attitudes like this are why I still find myself doing complicated wordplay because is being coerced through threats of violence and public…

I’ve been feeling a similar way. I, too, had a boyfriend as a teenager who pushed and pushed my boundaries until he finally coerced me into giving him oral sex. After, I felt humiliated and traumatized but that was attributed to how “crazy” I am. The next week he raped me, setting off a year of sexual and emotional…

I mean, I guess I can’t relate. I mean, I’ve met people who ditched their own kids because their new partner made an ultimatum, so I can only assume this is similar. I guess if she decides to dump her dogs, then they deserve each other? It seems really unhealthy to me, but perhaps I just can’t understand wanting to…

I mean, I’m sympathetic to the fact that he was traumatized, but why did he ever pursue a relationship with someone who has dogs if he can’t stand to be around them? Its very odd to say “this is my dealbreaker, I can’t live with this” and then decide to marry the person.

I definitely don’t believe that. My department is full of French women and they all dress like any average American woman with indiscriminate style. They’re also super racist though, so who knows

I mean, I hope that’s true for the most part. But I went 2 years ago and paid $15 with a smile and got a glare and a huff in return. It only solidified my overall impression that The Met isn’t intended for common people.

I live in New Mexico and this feels like the driest winter ever. Its warm, but my hands are cracking (for the first time in my life!). I run my humidifier and I’ m moisturizing like hell, but its like I’m molting all my skin

I visit my parents for Christmas and its basically this. We wear pajamas all day and don’t have a formal meal. I alternate between reading, napping, watching movies, and eating tasty food. Idk, it may be different for people who have siblings.

I’ve always found it funny that there are so many trendy start ups that like to tout their ~diversity~ and ~uniqueness~ but absolutely can’t stand the thought of clothing plus size women. I’m 5'6 and a size 16/18 and its always baffling to me how hard it is to find clothes, especially from ethical manufacturers. I’m…

Hmm, weird. Maybe New Mexico is just odd. We are kind of an outlier, as the only one of the poorest states that votes democrat. Its true that I didn’t get any sex ed though, since it wasn’t taught or required at my schools and there were a ton of teen pregnancies, though I’d attribute that to lack of resources.

I live in a very Catholic blue state and I think you might be able to attribute at least some of that to ethnicity, because I also live in one of the most Hispanic states. Most of the Catholics I’ve known don’t like abortion, but they tend to think its not really their business to meddle in someone else’s life. Very…

Yikes. Yeah, I haven’t been to Warped Tour in about 6 years (bc I don’t recognize the bands), but it is an environment that can turn bad very quickly. Not much security, lots of young girls, and closed quarters definitely create an iffy situation. It should be said that Warped Tour as an entity never made these…

Yeah, that’s Gerard Way

Me tooooo <3

A LOT of the emo and pop punk concerts I went to as a teenager made statements like that. It was a huge deal, especially at Warped Tour when people tended to be wearing fewer clothes overall. I hear a lot of jokes about how much some of these bands suck, but it was nice as a teenage girl for a dude to recognize that…

I don’t honestly understand ANYONE who trusts the police. My dad is an older, middle class, kinda conservative white guy and he always raised me to never call the cops and to avoid them as much as possible. The idea that anyone believes that police in general can be trusted is beyond strange to me

Yeah, that’s a narrative I rarely ever hear about. I struggled with really disordered eating for all of my teenage years, but I only went from “fat” to “a bit chubby”. Even now, I question whether I’m allowed to acknowledge that I even have issues with food because I’ve never been thin

Albuquerque has had snow twice this month (not that it stuck), which is very unusual. I guess we’re getting both extremes this summer?

There were female emperors in Japan as late as the Edo period, though infrequently. With the way the dynasty used to be structured, a succession crisis was more likely to be triggered by having too many heirs with claims to the throne, rather than too few. The law that prohibits a woman from taking the throne is very…