Right there with you... I literally have a glass of red wine and a packed bowl next to me. And since I will now likely lose the sole voice of reason in my state to an asshole who can’t open his mouth without inserting at least one foot, it’s only going to get worse.

There’s a new wine label, EmBrazened, that I discovered this weekend. It features badass women (I tried a Josephine Baker red blend, and it was great!) and is all about promoting their stories. I believe there are only 3 (the red blend, a Cab and a Chardonnay, I think?), and I’m not a white wine drinker, so I’m trying…

I get that. In her case, she only recently reunited with her father after a falling out, so I find it easier to believe. 

Yeah, I’ve been reading her interviews, and she seems like the kind of person I’d love to have drinks with and listen to her stories all night. “You did what? No, that can’t be real!”

They had a secret (like, not even her family knew) wedding a few weeks after meeting, then planned (and cancelled) a big wedding after a bunch of shit, including him being arrested for DV.

She changed her name when she decided to pursue a career in music because she didn’t want to be treated differently because of her parentage, which I think is pretty damn awesome.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Property Brothers look like someone cut up the faces of several Disney Princes, glued them together, and created a template for a human face. Taken separately, each feature is attractive. As a whole, though, they just look.... off... to me.

Part of the challenge, though, is that ND is a super-red state. I would love to be able to vote for an actual progressive. But I have to be pragmatic, and Heitkamp is the closest we will get for a long time. Is she everything I want? No. Is she better than Cramer? By a long shot.

Every time he opens his mouth, I want to ask him if he’s sure he wants to say that on the record. I can’t believe that this is a close race--it makes me distrust everyone around me.

I live in ND, and I had to take a break from Facebook for the last week. I thought that if I shared my experience, the women who kept defending Kavanaugh and minimizing Ms. Ford’s testimony may rethink their positions. Instead, they turned it all into a #notallmen argument that I had to stop responding to for the sake…

I just read the book and found it really disappointing. I was so excited after seeing previews for the movie, and then I found myself kind of bored by it... which at least means I can save the money I would have spent on tickets.

I see my nieces and nephews a handful of times a year, and would love nothing more than to smother them in hugs and kisses. Instead, I ask if I can give them hugs and/or kisses. If they say no, I respond “That’s okay; I love you anyway!” My boyfriend thinks I’m crazy, but I want them to know that my feelings don’t…

Unbound Babes. $65/quarter for a box of high-quality toys, instructions on how to best use them, and samples of lubes, etc. I started ordering individual things from them, and loved the products enough to justify the price to myself. It’s my only subscription box, and totally worth it!

Unbound Babes. $65/quarter for a box of high-quality toys, instructions on how to best use them, and samples of…

My freshman year of college, I told a popular football player (who I had a crush on) “no” to taking off my pants while hooking up. He threw me out of his room so quickly, I left my glasses. Months later, a friend was introducing me to a couple of her guy friends and I thought they were looking at me strangely... turns…

I met my rapist through a mutual friend, and our whole group encouraged me to date him. They didn’t believe me when I told them what he did. I will never forgive them.

Woman, 31. My now-partner told me (after much banter and several drinks) that he wanted to kiss me. I asked him why. He repeated that he wanted to kiss me. I said “okay”. He kissed me. It was perfect--confident, yet still asking permission.

I did a month of outpatient treatment for my mental health issues, and it was one of the hardest and best decisions I have made. I reached a point where I barely had enough energy to get up and go to work; regularly cried at random; was isolating to the point that I didn’t even want to speak to my best friends; and…

It has been really interesting for me to watch my parents cope with my sexual assault when I was 19 and, to their minds, a virgin. The workaround that they gave me initially was that “virginity can only be freely given; it cannot be taken from you”, so I was still technically a virgin and thus pure. Obviously, I was…

I was raised in a very conservative, Pentecostal/Evangelical church, and was a very pious child that realized early in my teens that it was mostly bullshit. My parents both managed to leave the church but keep their faith. For them, I think it takes the pressure off. They don’t have to worry about wrestling with moral…

I don’t know if you also read The Fountainhead, but after I was raped, I completely identified with Dominique in using sex as an exercise in some sort of weird self-hatred. It was a weirdly honest depiction of something that I suspect more women do that are wiling to admit (even to themselves). There are a million…