A few years ago my sorority’s honor board chair - basically our elected disciplinarian - sent out a “cunt punt” level email about racist Halloween costumes like a week before Halloween. She used her powers for good.

Counterpoint: “sexy puritan” is a good and hilarious costume. (But honestly, I think you have to be living under a rock to have somehow missed the memo that dressing up as a fucking caricature of a Native American isn’t okay.)

Yeah, maybe they’re just trying to teach their kids that it’s rude to pet strangers? For this, I thank them.

To be fair, I wouldn’t want my kids feeling up some stranger’s “energies” on the subway, either.

Oof, I can feel the awkwardness from here. I would definitely prefer no candy to that. My church did fall festivals too, only they did allow “appropriate” (nothing scary, no ghosts ghouls witches etc.) costumes and encouraged Bible-themed costumes. My hero was the lady who showed up in a shiny, sexy red devil costume…

Tangential, but I just wanted to share that my Halloween-hating mother who never let my siblings and I dress up and go trick-or-treating as kids (super conservative Christian thing) just got dressed up as a cowgirl and is on her way to a Halloween party. She’s doing so grudgingly, but still, progress!

To respond to your first question, most schools with inclusive policies generally talk about a student’s “consistent” gender identity. This means, usually, that a student may change their gender, but within limits, like once per school year. Nobody is going to be “trans for a day”.

Well, perhaps that should be dealt with AS ASSAULT and not as an issue of the victim? And then also, maybe we could work on our culture to stop tolerating kids and adults perpetrating violence based on gender and sexuality?

You need to show your sources for this. That phrase means nothing to me.

“It occurs all over the place, sadly.”

Citation needed.

What an idiot. Donald Trump didn’t want her to commit voter fraud. He wanted her to stand silently outside a polling place in a liberal-leaning area with a gun.

It’s an ancient meme. A proto-meme , if you will.

That was an excellent selection. Although I wish it was one entry longer because the one about the guy on the Craigslist date with the guy who worked real estate and was making noises in the basement was terrifying. I thought about that story for DAYS after I read it. Scary as hell.

Am I allowed to have a second submission? This story was relayed to me by one of my best friends. Back in the late 70s, my friend’s mom was a student at UNC. She had a car on campus, and went home on the weekends fairly regularly. She lived in the country, so when she went home, her route was often unmarked pavements…

When I was young our house was broken into and I noticed the intruder hiding under my moms bed by looking in a floor length mirror she had. Guess who’s not a fan of using a bed frame?

“We didn’t have an armoire.”

Something very similar happened to my boyfriend when he worked at a local bar. Everyone would say the place was haunted, he didn’t believe it. There was one time when he said all the bulbs in the upstairs part of the bar broke at the same time. But the experience that made him a believer was one night when he went to…

Not so much scary, but definitely creepy, and a legendary story in my family.

When I was about twelve, I went snooping through a closet and found photos of a little girl that looked like me, but seemed to have been taken a good 10 years earlier. I took the box to my mom, who told me that we would talk about it later, and to go outside to play. When I brought the pictures up later, she denied I…

I housesat for my best friend’s parents (who were like my second parents) before I moved out west. It was a pretty sweet deal: I took care of their three dogs, two cats, and bird and got the run of a four-story farm house style surbabn pad with a pool and 80 inch HDTV.