Because the bat shit ones we hear about are the exception rather than the rule.

TEACHER FETISHISTS are lurking everywhere. Surprised it's only one. Guy with a tail and second cousin FTW.

Oh Shit! My feeble lady brain only has the capacity to care about one thing at a time. Thank you for reminding me that no other issues will ever be worthy of my consideration until global poverty has been eradicated!

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& I am very happy that bigotry & hate seem to be less and less so...

My mom learned emoji about six months ago. Sometimes I get texts with like 12 emojis that are meant to convey complex ideas.

Gotcha. Fair enough and your feelings of trepidation are well-reasoned too. I just generally think Margaret Cho is an HBIC who can do whatever she wants.

I think you make two important points in this discussion:

enjoy this gem then

Nope. The people I work with are much crazier and have not only chosen to work with middle schoolers, but have chosen to work with middle schoolers from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. A very different kind of insane...

Bless you, re: 6(a). :)

6 (a) Don't go dragging us into this, we take enough crap as is, thank you very much.

yo dude. I will literally never know if I was simply "assaulted" or technically "raped". Because of the whole "altered state of mind" thing. As the years have past, it's been easier to realize that it doesn't f'in matter either way. Let's be proud of this young woman for many things, but not for "not crying rape."…

This just legit made me cry. Your mom FTW indeed.

This

Self loathing gets society nowhere. Use your status as a white person (who presumably has white friends) to educate other white people about the concept of privilege. I have found that this is a much more productive attitude than white guilt or group loathing that I've engaged in in the past. I've also found that…

I am quite a bit younger, but made a similar decision recently. Things are going so well in my life that I don't really need anyone else's emotional baggage stirring up the pot. I tell others that this is a decision for me "for now" but the future is unforeseen and things are going well. Thanks for sharing your…

I don't like to make assumptions about the reasons behind strangers' choices. I especially don't like to assume that other people don't have agency in those choices. This is why I fight systems of inequity without calling people I perceive to be "victims" of/ or "subservient" to those systems.

came here to see if anyone else remembered these!

Where do you live in Brooklyn? Because I feel like bringing one's baby to the bar is a way of life here. Like I can't imagine there not being babies in bars always.