Thank you for mentioning Supernatural because this all sounds like basically the plot for their #thinman ep this season. Couple friends want to off someone and they use thinman (aka slender man) as their scapegoat. Helpful tip: if your crime seems like it could be an episode of a fantasy show on The CW, put together a…

I have a friend with a 10 year old boy who hears gossip on the internet about Pokemon characters that isn't true. Some of which has been devastating to him. It is fictional stories about fictional characters, but he believes it.

I'm about a decade older, so I wasn't that tech savy at 12. But I did know it was wrong to stab people, even if I didn't know how to use the internet!

I'll answer your question bluntly. because they are abnormal with mental disorders. Like many, many people

Leave the good sea lord out of this.

Neither, it means a male assigned at birth person who identifies as a woman (yes, that is different from what you wrote, because "man" and "woman" are social constructs, and while "female" and "male" are often presented as objective facts, many individuals object to that, so the assignment by a doctor at birth and…

Oh man! I was hoping you'd end your final sentence with, "but you don't have to take MY word for it!" (dun dun dun!)

"What is it about our society that has allowed these guys to go from those feelings of hurt/rejection to advocating rape? The mind fairly BOGGLES."

Yeah - my fiance didn't "not all men" me but he kind of started in that direction about how this is a "vocal minority" or something and I think the look I shot him shut him up real quick. Minority doesn't fucking matter - someone is out there threatening me* all the time. All the time.

If you're unattractive to women, their rejection and neglect of you is what's supposed to happen. That you would want to inflict the same on gay men is disgusting.

I'm a straight woman who feels like no one's attracted to me. I "peaked" over ten years ago according to men. At least men don't depreciate like fucking cars. Whyyyy do men think women are never lonely, rejected, ignored?! Is it because the "dime pieces" are literally the only ones on your radars?

Do not advertise your pets on CL. Many animals picked on CL end up being used as bait animals for fighting dogs. Make sure you analyze the prospective owners before you hand over the leash.

Actually they have released all of the photo shoots for this season so that the audience can vote. I can confirm that they did not cover up her skin to make it appear one color in any of the photoshoots.

ANTM is my guilty pleasure. I am fascinated by how oblivious Tyra is of her own offensive behavior, and how sadly willing the young women are in their own eagerness to exploit themselves... It's like watching burn victims applaud Nero for his fiddling.

Oh man, I loved that show. I used to work at a bookstore and one day I was telling a customer about a great book, and inadvertently said "But don't take my word for it." When the customer bought the book, my coworker came over and said "Did you just Reading Rainbow that guy? That was awesome!" And I said, "I think I…

Wow, you're right! That's some crummy luck right there. Better luck next time, Girl in Yellow.

Agreed, the "love, but not IN LOVE" interpretation seems like an especially harsh reading of the Anne/Gilbert relationship. I've always loved it because it rang so true- that thunderclap realization that someone who you know very well and had previously overlooked, someone who is perhaps nothing like what you…

I wrote both an undergrad and grad thesis on the topic of "eternal girlhood" in L.M. Montgomery, and spent several years of my life immersed in her 22 novels and her ginormous and fascinating personal journal...

In my reading of her life and work, the "Other" that Montgomery/Anne yearns for is not homosexual love, but…

That is very interesting. It's very sad to imagine her life that way, and of course it puts Anne in a very different light.

I might feel more convinced if I read the whole work by Robinson, but I have to say I really disagree with this. I don't disagree with the idea that Anne is homoromantic in that she feels romantic love for other women, just with the notion that she is not in love with Gilbert. I'm not sure how this would "label" her,…