Ugh. Really, lady?
Did you guys put crack in the tartar sauce?

No problem!

Haha. You know it's mutual Yellow Bird ;)

Perhaps some sort of an acknowledgement that he can't stand for anyone who has been oppressed, because he has never been oppressed, but even a cop-out phrase like, "I dedicate this to you." There were plenty of other people who made fantastic acceptance speeches about the privilege of telling a story, and Lupito…

I had to suppress my gag reflex at his acceptance speech. "For anyone who has ever been hated for who they are and who they love yadda yadda I stand here for you." Subscript: as a white, hetero, conventionally attractive cis-man.
Uh, thanks Jared.

But there is a difference between a screw up and ignoring that it happened. It sounds like you just didn't know what to say, a curse I am also afflicted with! I always say the wrong thing. That is why I always default to, "I am so sorry that happened to you. Is there something I can do?"
For me it was just having…

I'm sorry you've been there, too. Solidarity hugs!

Whhhaaa? That is awesome! I grew up mostly in Langford before moving to NB.
We did not have a car on cement blocks, but lots of our neighbours did :P

Yuup. Unfortunately part of the fallout of sexual assault is learning who your real friends are. She ain't one of 'em!

I'm actually from Canada! I went to Elementary school outside Victoria :P

They had to throw it out?! That's insane!
I went to elementary school in a really poor area and lunches were free. If there were left overs they would hand them out at the end of the day and the line-ups for that were crazy, but at least the food was going directly from hand to hand!
Also those ladies are very…

It is truly the King of bears.

I like to think this is what CassieBear looks like in real life.

I don't know if I should be scared or excited. Or both.
Either way:

You're incredibly brave for sharing this, Penny. Fuck all the people who are responding with chips on their shoulders. Massive hugs your way!

Dude, she didn't cheat. She broke it off.
She knows herself and her needs better than internet strangers. I don't understand the vitriol being thrown her way. Relationships are messy and complicated. People leave for all kinds of reasons and I for one am humbled that she would be so honest on a public platform…

Yeah, I think the idea that aces have no libido, or aren't aroused at all is a really common misconception that drives people away from learning more about it as an identifier.

That's interesting, thanks for weighing in! I kind of wanted to say that the OP sounds like an ace, but I don't know enough about the place of masturbation in that.
So thanks for indirectly answering a question I didn't even ask!

Thank you for mentioning this!
The idea of this makes sense intellectually, but always leaves me feeling... dirty, kind of.

I don't think there is actually a correlation between masturbation and lack of desire. I'm not sure what the OPs gender is, but speaking as a woman the more I masturbate, the more I want to engage in sex with another person.