I’ll answer your questions, but there will be spoilers, so consider this a warning! I’ll try not to give too much away.

People act according to her plan, up until the very end, when they decide not to pass the tapes to #12, and instead give them to #13, and then gave a copy to her parents, who were not left a note or…

I had a similar experience with a counselor in high school. I told him I was being sexually harassed, and he responded with the basic “boys will be boys.” I didn’t hint at any suicidal thoughts, which is is a huge difference, but that scene didn’t bother me so much because I thought it was really believeable.

Sometimes…

I disagree (sort of). Zach did more than throw away her note. She rejected him, and he reacted like an entitled brat. He sabotaged her, took away the one thing that was helping her cope, and then ignored her cry for help (the note).

I would say it was trivial in comparison with what some of the other characters did to…

They hinted at it. It seemed to me Hannah showed signs of PTSD during the make out scene with Clay, and I assumed that’s what happened and why she stopped it and told him to leave.

But I only assumed that because of my own PTSD and similar experiences. I doubt other people would think that’s what was going on, and it…

Did you go to school in the south? I was in the suburbs of Maryland, and there were confederate flags everywhere. On kid’s shirts, flying from the back of their redneck trucks that they drove to school, one girl had a confederate flag trapper keeper. No one ever got suspended for it. (I was in high school ‘04-08).

And…

Well, yeah. There’s a lot of racism in Latin America. The Dominican Republic has been trying to deport all Haitians and people with any Haitian ancestry (important geographical note for anyone unaware: the two countries share the same island), and it’s mostly a thinly-veiled attempt to rid the Dominican Republic of…

I get your point, but I hate Woody Allen movies, and I’m not entirely sure if it’s because of my feelings towards Woody Allen or because I think they’re bad movies with bad characters and creepy, misogynistic undertones. It’s definitely hard to disconnect when his protagonists always seem like self-inserts, even when…

Very true. I’m doing that thing I hate where you praise someone (usually a man) for meeting the bare minimum of decency. “He did the dishes once, I’m such a lucky lady!” “He didn’t endorse a racist, sexist cheeto for office, what a good guy!”

And yet, the GOP lowered the bar so much, I can’t help but to think “well, he …

Ugh, yeah, that’s understandable. He did nothing. He could have signed the law, or vetoed it, knowing full well the veto would be overturned. So he deserves no credit.

And yes, she’s a professor, actually.

You’re right. He looks pretty great compared to his party, but he doesn’t deserve our respect for being barely decent. I guess I just have this weird cognitive dissonance because I know his wife.

But you’re also right about good people marrying bad ones. What on earth do they see in them??

Side note: his wife is a…

He’s one of the few republicans that refused to endorse Trump. So his convictions can’t be THAT weak.

Hogan is a republican. He was the GOP’s shot at stopping it, and he allowed it to pass.

I honestly have a hard time hating him. He’s not great, but he’s better than the rest of his party. 

I’m biased, though, because I sort of know his wife, and I think she is amazing. And if she likes him, he can’t be that bad......right?

Too bad. I’d rather be wrong and nosy than risk something terrible happening to someone that could have been prevented.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

I saw it written on campus the other day. Gave me the chills.

It’s not Stephen King scary, more like 1984 scary. It’s never overtly graphic nor gory. There are some parts that made me cry. Some parts that felt so real and believable I had to put the book down and watch kitten videos.

It’s extremely well written, and if you like dystopian fiction, especially feminist dystopian…

Thankfully she didn’t accuse any specific individuals, just three scary, black boogeymen. Otherwise she would have gotten people killed.

I remember the month. It was October, and it snowed. I remember thinking it was too early for snow, how odd. I was cold. I was wearing a sweater dress, a scarf, and tall boots. I remember every detail of his apartment. I remember the name of his cat. I remember that we ordered a pizza with mushrooms and olives. I had…

Like it or not, we almost always perceive men we don’t know as a threat. You can #notallmen all you want, but there are enough men out there to justify our fear, and we are not about to risk our safety and the safety of other women just so we don’t hurt your feelings.

I will continue to eavesdrop on women in situations…

I know exactly how you feel. I have a class in a building off campus, and there are two ways to walk there. The short way passes by a busy intersection where those assholes with the windshield wipers hang out, and it also passes by a bus stop, and the majority of the walk is over a bridge. There’s no where to go if…