I completely get this. I was homeless at the age of 16 because the abuse in my home was too dangerous to contemplate staying. That means sleeping under bridges in the freezing cold felt safer to me, even with the scary old homeless men. Those old homeless guys never once laid a hand on me like my parents did. The…

Are you kidding me? I don't even know where to start with you. First of all, she wrote an obituary, which needed to be written in the present. Also, if you think all of this crap doesn't affect someone's present then you certainly have not had to deal with any of this, or, you're in complete denial.

Pretty much none of that crap is true.

My grandfather sexually abused all of my aunts and my mother their entire childhood. My grandmother knew and only kicked him out for 6 months before letting him back. I remember at his funeral his sisters (from Mexico, that obviously had no idea what had been going on) wailing dramatically but among the other women in…

I think she deserves the last word.

My mother ruined my credit, stole my identity, purchased cars, lit a fire for insurance fraud and blamed it on me, abused me sexually, physically and incredibly emotionally, and killed two of my cats, one in front of me.

The funeral, as they say, is for the living. So I would argue, do whatever you have to to get the taint of the dead off you.

While I sort of get your sentiment, I appreciate any and all genuine public shows of alliance and outrage, especially from men who aren't misogynists.

Holy shit. While I would have preferred that it didn't involve all the fat insults, that was amazing. It was so reassuring to see such an overwhelming reaction of "that is not okay" coming from the audience after the initial rape comments.

I totally agree with everything you said here, but I just responded to a similar thought in another comment thread. After a second watch, I actually think that whole scene is a criticism of the white dude, not the Islamic dude.

I can't stop posting these:

This picture of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and his son at a Knicks game is heartbreaking.

Youtube appreciation post

I'm more just weirded out that in her fictional universe the vast majority of couples marry people they met at 11 years old.

Okay, where's the fanfic where Hermione has an affair, and she and Ron get a divorce? I think that's the inevitable conclusion.

At my vet's old office, there was a cabinet with a display of all of the things that had been chewed & swallowed by dogs and had to be removed surgically. There was some weird shit in that cabinet.

I think a lot of the problem is inappropriate use of statistics. I suspect the wedding costs aren't normally-distributed, so that a small number of people blowing ridiculous amounts of money is skewing the average. Basically, I think it should be a median, not a mean, just like income stats in America.
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I know no one will even see this because of the commenting system but omg, Guys, this isn't even our most cray cray politician. Google Corey Bernardi. He's a foaming Islamaphobe, homophobe and misogynist who has just published a book called The Conservative Revolution about how he and his fellow straight white…

This is really about the way refugees are humiliated and dehumanized a daily basis. Our government is obsessed with getting rid of them, without caring whether they are genuine refugees or what they have been through. There were promises from the last government that no more children would be in detention that have…