Don’t be shitty.

So I was ashamed that I didn’t feel grateful.

Okay, yikes, a lot of assumptions happening here.

I highly recommend The Worldly Philosophers for an easy to understand overview of economic theories and systems in general.

I was thinking of going to church and lighting a candle, or maybe taking a hike some where pretty. I dug out a bunch of pictures of her to show my husband and it made me feel better.

I’m so sorry that happened to you, but glad you’re making progress through therapy now - even if it’s the stage where you feel inexplicably worse because you can name/quantify some of the damage. You have every right to be angry.

If you went from a processed carb heavy diet straight into a true paleo, hardly any carbs and they’re all veggies, most people feel this kind of sick at first. Your body is adjusting from running on one type of fuel (carbs, complex or processed) and now it’s switching to very high protein.

They don’t sound like very good friends if they lied about what they were even giving you.

This reminded me of one of my old newspaper columns about my adventures driving a cab:

Because I, like most people, perspire a lot more in my sleep than I ever would have thought possible, given that I never seem to feel overtly sweaty, just pull everything back and let it air while I shower and eat breakfast, at which point I yell, “GUMMITCH, YOU WANNA HELP ME MAKE THE BED?”

They’re women, not oil. We’re not going to do a goddamn thing.

Boko Haram, Isis, and any other fundamentalist, insane religious cult deals with one thing first, sexual sadism. Their “religious” beliefs aren’t even a credible cover. Isis has issued a doctrine justifying the rape and sexual torture of pre-pubescent girls. All extreme fundamentalist religions deal with the fear and…

That man is a bonafide stud.

I always want to choke out the assholes who present that argument, then force-feed them Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed. Her assertion that "there is no such thing as unskilled labor" is one of the profoundest statements in print.

Conversely if I saw that I would feel unsafe, worse if it was near where I had actually been assaulted I would feel humiliated and anxious (the thought of “do they mean ME?”).

I think it’s important to at least try and think about how some victims/survivors might be upset by such a message. I personally would think…

Yeah but add a camera and suddenly you’re polling Reddit for the actress’ name. God I’m fucking sick of sexual double standards.

So wait...it’s okay to fuck 25 men for money for porn, but not for money as a sex worker?

Being smart enough to not jump into the wild animal exhibit? Those humans are crazy bastards, who knows what they’d do to you.

my uncle was an post-war chief police inspector and he always used his own little fold out pocket knife. Really little one, I carry a 91mm victorinox with my keys and I think it is larger. I was so disgusted with him always using the little joke of a knife even in really nice restaurants where they got really sharp…

If you don't feel safe, take self defense classes like Krav Maga or similar. Carrying a "weapon" is pretty pointless if you don't know what to do with it....