Rachel’s in the book. 🙃

I’m not better than anybody (except Nazi types) and I love talking to everyone about what they think and why they think it. It’s the great privilege of my job and my life. Also I walk away or hang up if they get verbally abusive with me, which has only happened literally a couple times in close to a decade of doing…

It was a pic of an actual staffer’s kid taken at a school crafts day, I think. Her sister did it as a joke. I talked to someone at Comet about it and wrote about how they feel about seeing that photo twisted in such hideous ways. 

Would love to talk about this more! Anna.merlan@jezebel.com

I’m gonna be real with you: I’m surprised at how well this went for both of us, ultimately.

I worked in a highly regarded psychiatric hospital in the early 1990s. The clinicians there were all about the Satanic Panic, and nearly every white adolescent who came in with a history of sexual abuse and dissociative disorder was pronounced to be “cult abused.” One clinician gave a big lecture to the rest of the…

My friend, this is a book excerpt. Earlier in the book we learn that Angel is from Atlantic City. Thank you for your attention to detail and passion re: geography. 

I think the point was they were mostly seeing women doing this, and they were trying to avoid saying, “Women are doing this or that bad thing.”

Love the mission and passion of this person, thank you! Please do some posts to educate people on how damaging the “rock balancing” pictures are. Dont move rocks around stream beds and deserts to create a min sculpture, people: it’s damaging to the environment!

Or TWRAM, the world revolves around me.

Maybe people should be shamed for some things...

YES! This is the short and sweet version of what I was about to say. It seems more and more the general attitude of people is that rules simply don’t apply to them. If there is a line or a wait for something, they’ll find a way to cut; if there is a barrier that says “do not cross” they are going to cross it.

I’ve seen the same thing in Southern California. There’s always been a certain amount of bad behavior, but the increase in aggressive, shameless bad behavior – people who know they’re being assholes, don’t care, and are eager to tell you to fuck off about it – is really distressing.

I’m so glad you’re reporting on this, because it drives me nuts. Will definitely follow.

These people are probably the same ones doing yoga poses in the concentration camps for clicks. 

This guy is outstanding. One thing that bugged me is the amount of times he said he doesn’t really want to shame them. I say, shame the fuck away hardcore. If your going to knowingly be an asshole, then you deserve it.

Trying to get a nice picture does not entitle you to destroy, damage, deface, or permanently scar public places and/or lands.

Seriously, we’re just the worst. 

“Instagram Influencer” is synonymous with human garbage.