This world needs people that honor the the help that they received by giving back. I salute you and thank you.

A long time ago I was in Morocco at a summer study program in a small town. Inexplicably after over a month of being there, my debit card froze and I couldn’t get any cash for weeks. My bank’s website said there were no bank branches in the country, so I couldn’t figure out how to unfreeze the account. I called the…

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

I was traveling through Europe at the end of the study abroad, so I was lugging a huge suitcase from France, to Belgium, to Italy, to Greece, to England. Upon my arrival in Brussels, a man approached me and offered to carry my suitcase up the stairs. I declined, having learned in my time in Europe that men who offered…

I hope you (Joan and the editors) are listening to all the negative comments here, and I hope you know where they’re coming from. Most people don’t appreciate flippancy about trench warfare (for some weird reason!).

These reviews would be embarrassing enough if they were uploaded to a teen’s youtube channel, but it’s honestly disappointing to see them posted on Jezebel. There’s nothing admirable about hiding behind a lazy, narrow minded approach to film as art; this shouldn’t need to be said on a progressive site. Let’s leave…

Correct answer: When the responding officer arrived at the scene, he took one look at Suzy and decided that based on her appearance she must have been asking for it. Based on this assumption, he never offered to collect a rape kit. He gathered no physical evidence, made one attempt to get a copy of the video from the…

I would wear that blazer weekly.  That is a Mary Berry fever dream of a blazer.

I just imagine the shell-shocked staring around the holiday table that night, as the food slowly grows cold. Someone is softly weeping behind a closed bathroom door.  We will never be the same, no.

“(every single song could have at least one verse of, and the audience would notice anyway given high concentration of gibberish in the lyrics).”

My cats take up less room in the bed than a person. When they pee, it all goes into a litter box and not the rim of my toilet or the surrounding floor. They want a reasonable amount of attention and leave me alone the rest of the time. For those reasons, plus my general disinterest in sex, cat’s seem like a more…

That’s not how a cookie party works!!!!!!! People show up, decorate, and take cookies home on a plate (even if that means smudging the crap out of them on the way home). 

It’s one thing to see the misleading NTY’s tweet misquoting him and then firing off angry reactionary tweets, but it’s another to have the full context of his statement and still decide to sit down and write about it and pretend he said something he never said.

How do you write this blog without the rest of his quote? I mean, he literally says we should push for something greater, he’s just asking those with privilege to consider what they are asking those without privilege to risk in that push.

“Narwhal the Magic Furry Unicorn Puppy wasn’t made that way for a reason—the congenital defect, as the same story notes, was likely the result of man-made toxins either in the environment or ingested by Narwhal the Unicorn Puppy’s mother.”

except it doesn’t say that, like, anywhere in the story alluded to. i know…

Thank you for saying this. <3

I assume it’s not what you intended, but this take strikes me as ableist. You know who usually finds comfort and inspiration from a dog who is different? Children who are different. I don’t see why we want to shit on that.

I’m so sorry. At the risk of sounding like a weird stranger post—and the fear that my blathering will start making it all about me—I just wanted to let you know that some (hopefully most) of the people who work at food banks are aware of the struggles that parents have to go through when confronted with the ‘gift’ of…

My favorite (/s) response to Dessen’s tweet was when someone replied “Fuck that fucking bitch.”, and Dessen replied to that with “I love you. [heart emoji]”.

Since distinctions do matter, Armenian Apostolic is neither Orthodox nor Catholic. It is its own thing, and has always been. There are similarities of course, much as Lutherans are similar to Episcopalians, but they are still definitively different churches.