I was working as a PR assistant at my local playhouse when he was in town to do his one man show of a Christmas Carol. Behind the theater was a little grove of trees where I sometimes ate my lunch - it was quiet and nobody ever walked by. I had even borrowed an old unused prop table and a few chairs so I'd have a…

I was lucky enough to be the female finalist for our local sports radio station over the summer. The winner got their own show. Now, I know that the best person won (who happened to be male, he could talk like no one's business), however, the crap I had to read about myself was awful. Women are genetically different…

This is just old. Shock jocks and radio misogynists are going the way of the dinosaur. However the biggest names will end up podcasting soon enough to their old guy audience with some net saavy but most will just disappear. The young guys who were these radio tycoons when abusing strippers was socially acceptable are…

I never got greys. Mine when straight to snow white (as did my fathers). I solved it by bleaching the bejezzus out of the rest of my hair and dying it pink.

A friend of mine explained a similar philosophy. She had a very bad vehicular accident that altered her for life, limiting the use of her body and she has a massive collection of tattoos, each of which represents something or someone important to her. Often they are from media she connects with (she's a writer of both…

I love the idea of tattoos as scars that we choose, as a way of reclaiming our bodies. As someone who was always told when growing up how "trashy" and "unladylike" tattoos are, I adore mine because they are a way that I have made my body mine and fuck what anyone else thinks!

A non-condescending, consoling hug for you:

A good place to start is Spivak Can the subaltern speak?

I went to the same high school he did; we grew up in the same community (obviously several decades apart, lol). My mother was madly in love with him! And yes, I know that interview well, hahah.

I'm an extremely high-functioning alcoholic. I guess when I say "high-functioning," I mean that I have a very successful career and I wake up and go to work on time every day, and no one would ever dream that I go home every night and drink until I pass out. I've pushed away all of my friends because when I spend time…

Geez man, when you start to hear all these stories of what a weird old creep Alan Thicke was back in the 80s, it's just like NO WONDER Kirk Cameron went all super Jesus on everybody. Shit, no wonder.

I find it bizarre that you think acquaintance-rapists are normal people. That's a little like thinking Ted Bundy, because he looked clean and met his victims the first few times in public, was somehow more civilized than some stranger running down the street at you with an ax. It is an act. A scam. A ruse. A…

I'm assuming it was Zeus.

Speaking of the clutch article, can we mention the fact that, despite the fact that the headlines are almost WORD FOR WORD identical, the first mention of clutch is in the comments of this article? Seems kind of tacky considering the whole #solidarityisforwhitewomen debacle and all.

I did not "lose" my virginity. I did not "lose" anything when I became sexually active - i gained a sense of self & personal autonomy. The purity people can have their beliefs, it's none of my business. When it comes to my beliefs, however, they can talk to the hand.