It’s a little-known bit of etiquette, but a guest can technically give a “wedding gift” to the newlyweds at any point in the first year of marriage. The whole concept behind gifting items to new couples is that you’re helping to get them settled and, understandably, sometimes people think it’s more thoughtful not to…

As a survivor of digital rape, P-in-V virginity-stealing rape, and anal rape (so ... fourth-base stealing rape?), I have multiple issues with SVU, not least of which being its appropriation of true survivor narratives without in any way aiding the real people fueling its stories. I’m not saying they should outright…

Oh, I’m glad you had kind people handling your procedure. I thought I was in good hands. (This was not at PP, but a place PP referred me to.) My body went into shock pretty much immediately after — I started violently puking and stuff and was shuffled to a single-toilet bathroom across the hall from the exam room. The…

I thought I read somewhere that two separate judges barred the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any more misleading videos while Planned Parenthood’s practices were under investigation. Did those judges get overturned, or are these freaks just going ahead with their smear campaign regardless?

Um. Pretty sure this woman is dead because this police officer, his fellow officers, and the local courts didn’t believe her or, at the very least, take her seriously. So ... say she shoots the guy, kills him, and I’m supposed to expect the people who were already doubting her are going to magically all of a sudden be…

People who seem hazy on this being a form of sexual assault — which boils down to a crime of sex-based domination over someone whom the assailant perceives as not deserving of having seeming power over him/her — just needs to ask themselves, “Would this have happened, would it have seemed funny and normal, if that…

Can we be friends? I like you.

I’ve never been, Chris. But I would not mind you showing me around. Would not mind at all.

So everyone was using the term “free bleeding” in the comments here and I was like, “This is a thing?” And I Googled it. And I am so glad other people do the weird thing I do! I work from home and my period is usually light and lasts only three days (which I guess is short and light? Don’t worry, I get fucking hideous…

Quality MacBook with all the upgrades and a pricey program like Photoshop already loaded into it AND a snazzy cover sticker for it designed by some Etsy dealer. It’s what I got and I babied the hell out of it and still use it.

Terminator is maybe one of my Top 5 all-time favorite movies. Sarah Connor is a badass bitch even when she’s still just a waitress with a bad perm who is overwhelmed by the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to kill her because her uterus will one day produce a military leader.

Poor, sweet baby. My dog woke me up in the night, whining and crying. He wanted to go outside to puke. He’s such a good guy. He just ate too much, thank God. But he’s got bad cataracts in his left eye and now his right eye is going and my car broke down last week and wiped out all my savings for his surgery. He’s…

I legit medically died once. Best experience of my life. Rush of endorphins. Went to a peaceful place where I forgot what sadness or fear were (which was shocking, because literally seconds before I’d been screaming my head off in the hospital saying, “I’m dying” over and over, sobbing and shitting myself). When I…

Ha ha, oh, I got you! Yeah, I use colloquialisms myself, but refrain from doing so in situations where I expect the phrase might be unfamiliar or confusing or taken the wrong way. I mean, that’s just common sense, which one would hope a candidate for the presidency would have. Womp womp.

I have no doubt that, had my mother reported it, she would have met less resistance to her complaint than a woman of color. Absolutely no doubt in my mind. And that is horrifying to me, because I know my mother did not complain because she knew it would go nowhere.

I am a white woman from an upper-middle-class background, and I agree with you whole-heartedly. My mother was arrested for spousal abuse (for defending herself and us children against my drunken father), then, when being processed at the county jail, was strip-searched and cavity-searched by a female officer in a way…

It’s not reasonable. A reasonable person (1) refrains from using expressions that put incendiary ingredients together and, (2) certainly does not then trail off before establishing that he is absolutely not referring to something totally inappropriate.

“If you want to be treated equally, this is what it is.”

Oh, that makes a lot more sense. Plus, Marion Cotillard was in it, so you get a total pass. Even The Dark Knight Rises gets a pass from me because of Marion Cotillard.

The only person I ever picture when I think of toilets being cleaned is Mila Kunis from Jupiter Ascending. She cleaned, like, 600 toilets in that movie. It started to get weird.