I really don't think it's fair to call suicide attempts or acts bullshit, even if you are within the community in question. And I don't understand why you are so adamantly opposed to people caring for the health and happiness of trans teens. The fear that these kids want to die is a pretty legitimate one. No…

It's better to be kind than to be right. And that goes double when you're wrong, Mom. So damn sad.

The Vampire Lestat's Snack*

"Love" is a verb. You can have abstract feelings of warmth or fondness toward your children, but if you're not behaving in a loving way, you're not really loving them.

Sorry but making this was unreasonably fun AND made me feel justified for watching an ungodly number of hours of 30 rock.

Just a hunch but something tells me those two Canadian guys who organized the first ugly Christmas sweater party in Vancouver — in 2002 — drew plenty of inspiration from Mark D'Arcy's ugly Christmas sweater in Bridget Jones's Diary, which was released in 2001.

But but but

The Best Gift I Ever Got:

Two years ago, from my very Catholic, very pro-life grandmother to me, her very atheist, very pro-choice granddaughter:

So for most of my childhood my mother was just insanely busy with work 100% of the time, especially around Christmas, so she would usually give me cash and commission me around December to buy her Christmas presents for her and wrap them, just to take some of the stress off for the holidays. This way the only presents…

When I was a young teenager (end of middle school beginning of high school) I was obsessed with Tiffany's like most other suburban girls my age. I was desperately pining for one of those "Return To Tiffanys" necklaces, but my parents wouldn't even entertain the idea of getting me such an expensive piece of jewelery…