I made it to 2:13. Bleh.

LOL your friend is an idiot and a predator and DEFINITELY should not be around or working with liquor or children again. Was that story supposed to make us feel sympathy for him? Because it just makes you look really gross for not seeing why he is a predator (and a REALLY bad bartender as well as REALLY stupid human…

I used to have REPETITIVE nightmares in my teens and very early twenties that I was lost in a city I didn’t recognize. In retrospect not scary at all, but at the time they were terrifying and I had them almost every night. I think I was about twenty or twenty-one when the iPhone came out, and for those of you who are…

What a fun professor!

I HAVE THESE AND I AM 29 UGH!! Scared the shit out of me the first time I got one, I thought it was a retinal tear! Also just got an ulcer on my eyeball a couple weeks ago — not even something I knew was a thing. Those eye floaties though... ugh.

You’ll be cursed for offending the spirits!

I’ve always heard that you don’t take ANYTHING from Hawaii. It is said it offends and angers the spirits of the island and the thing, whether it be a rock or a shell or a tree branch or whatever. It’s just kind of called “the Curse” whenever I’ve heard it talked about.

That is a vivid mental scene and I am DYING.

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHA WHAAAATTT?? For real, that is amazing. Where and how did you stumble on this?? How would one find this sort of thing if one were voyeuristically inclined to investigate? Asking for a friend...

This is a very good simile!

Those are viewpoints oddly lacking in empathy. Why are you “all later laughing at the girl making a scene”? What is your definition of a scene? Why is it fun to make fun of an obviously upset woman? (I assume part of your definition of a “scene” would include a display of emotion.)

Well, in my interpretation, I read this article as more about the idea of men claiming women are making a scene when they are not, in fact, making a scene, but simply standing up for themselves or bringing up something the accuser is uncomfortable discussing. But I certainly do agree that the ACTUAL “scenes” tend to…

Jesus fucking Christ. That is fucking horrifying.

It’s a lot more about not caring if strangers know. If you are the one who is more worried about what strangers think than about the very real feelings of the human being trying to express their anger at the way you have treated them, you are probably incapable of empathy. And that is kind of the whole point of this…

I panic-/rage-fought a lot of dudes who physically harassed/assaulted me in my early 20s and I know this feeling so well. I became so furious about being assaulted all the time that I wanted nothing more than for some motherfucker to try it. I think I ended up with some kind of weird rage-field that men can sense and…

And stay out of the woods? :) (Just hoping that was a MFM reference!)

God, this whole thread is so cathartic. I am so happy for you and everyone else who got to witness that sort of “ah-hah!” moment in someone who has made amends for their behavior and tried to become a better human.

I think recordimg it is such a great idea! Human brains are REALLY good at editing our memories to make us look like the heroes in our own story, but it is pretty much impossible to deny video of oneself acting a fool.

You are rad and fighting the good fight. Thank you!

EMOTIONAL PYROTECHNICIAN IS THE BEST PHRASE I HAVE EVER READ. A+