maintaining that degree of separation from the world is a luxury.

Jana and John-David are both 25, which is admittedly a bit late to get started. The other adult children living at home are college-age, when a lot of people don’t have much in the way of work skills. They could take out some student loans, pick up a few community college courses, and see if any of them could get…

And with zero marketable skills they’ll get the fun experience of starting at the bottom and making minimum wage, all while having to interact with outside people who hold different (read: frighteningly heathen) points of view and values than they do.

i hope you didn’t include the women in that adult count because we all know they can’t leave the house

As what? They have been purposely left without education or skills that they could use to be self-sufficient, which is a sin I guess. They could be babysitters, except for the whole serial molester cover-up thing sort of tends to turn parents off.

I would rather flush every last penny I had down the toilet. And if Amy is so hard up to write thank you notes, she can send letters to the service men and women overseas because I am sure she and her other cult members love America just as much as they do Jeebus.

I experience the race version of this: European name, Ivy education, WOC. I’ve had interviewers not find me in the waiting room, looking for someone else. I’ve also been told, suddenly, that I’m no longer qualified for the position they said I was qualified for over the phone. It’s a great way to weed out employers…

Let’s all ease off the fat-shaming a little bit (the comments, not the article).

Fat people having sex. Gross. Do they think they’re human or something?

“What are you looking at?” she asks. Eyes up here asshole.

Fuck that shit. As an old, if it’s hot - shorts and short sleeves it is. As my mother used to say “Keep your eyes in your head and mind your own goddamned business.”

Where are the articles questioning all the dudes in tank tops with gross shoulder hair?

“Certainly, structural sexism exists in ______, but you’re overstating it”

Name one real, published writer who could be described as “weak-willed” and “fears real work.” It’s literally fucking impossible, because the act of writing a novel requires a tremoundous amount of willpower and hard work.

KELLY: Rockin’ the Gender-Neutral Name Since 1970.

The military sent me a Mach 3 razor in the mail when I was 17. I used it on my legs for years!

I have a male name. I fucking love it. I mean, I hated it in elementary school when the worst insult was to be called a lesbian, but having since embraced my weird gender identity, I’ve enjoyed having a head start on my female peers. Job applications get looked at, open source contributions are discussed and accepted,…

men tend to be flustered: “oh, I’m sorry. I thought— this whole time I guess I was thinking you were a man. Uh, not that it matters.

In her defense, she’s now pretty well-known under that name. It’d be a little weird for her to change it all of a sudden.

In all honesty, this is part of the reason I am stalling on writing a novel. I am in serious fear I will never be able to sell it as general fiction once they figure out that I am, 1) a female, and 2) Black. Even though the novel I have half written could apply to anyone, it will be genre marketed to death, if it is…