I am proud. I've now made it through both Thanksgiving and Christmas without texting my ex. Five more days and I'm through the holidays and in the clear.

Benefits of having a pre-teen- rather than waking us up at 6:30 to unwrap presents, he woke up at 8:30 like a civilized human being. He also surprised me by getting in bed for a snuggle instead of heading straight for the Christmas tree. This is a good phase. I'll take it.

I look forward to next year when she cancels Canceled Christmas because she realizes all the attention she brought on herself made her ego grow three sizes. There are millions of people who donate time and money to charity and instill gratitude and a lack of entitlement in their kids & then don't seek attention for…

bruh this is a piece by a religious feminist

I'm guessing they mean about original sin. The immaculate conception, in Catholic doctrine, refers to Mary's conception, so that Jesus would be born from a clean vessel, untainted by original sin. The author implies Mary's lack of original sin comes from her ever virgin status.

You people never stop struggling to find some phantom oppression with which to pretend-torture yourselves, do you?

I eat the fuck out of some snow when I'm pregnant. I feel you, girl.

This article actually has very little to do with Christmas or any perceived attendant cynicism.

I'm just here to say that I have a family member whose conception occurred despite the mom being a virgin. I guess Mom was too Catholic to "go all the way," but fooled around exuberantly with Dad... and conceived Not-Jesus-Family-Member. I'd bet my left foot that they consummated the relationship before the birth -…

Meh. For the past 5 years or so it's been the same 4 or 5 people that post the same damn statuses over and over and over again. First they're madly in love, 2 weeks after meeting someone, a month after that they break up because cheating/being mean/saying the wrong thing/forgetting their favorite color etc etc. …

Campus rape victims are not the enemy of disadvantaged rape victims.

For me, this is the scariest and most threatening passage:

No, this is all about him and about how his school is making him sad. :(

This reminds me of an acquaintance who told me who fully supports gay people, and would never never discriminate or treat them different, but that now is not the time for gay marriage (this was about 2 years ago). That gay people are being selfish because our country has so much more important things to worry about,…

My mother raised me as a Catholic.

"Outside of a forced marriage or kidnapping, it just seems very hard to believe that a person would over and over again put themselves in a situation where they could expect this kind of behavior to occur."

These are men who consider themselves against sexual assault, and are shocked to find themselves accused of it.

Why don't you ever see guys like this telling us how their fathers raised them as feminists?

Roll a D20 to determine your base, and add modifiers.

Thank you. And yeah, you're right. While it sucks, and I just wish he'd never proposed in the first place, I'm grateful this happened BEFORE an actual divorce would have been in order—or before we moved to some place where I don't know anyone and have no immediate support system (which was totally a possibility ugh).