I was convinced I would die at 30. Now, many years later, I guess I’ve figured out I need to live in case I do die soon. I did feel like I didn’t belong here for a long while.

I didn’t think I’d survive HS. Now I’m in my 30s and while still dealing with anxiety and depression, I’m much better at handling things than I was when I was younger. And in a lot of ways, my life is more amazing than I dreamed.

I am (GULP for admitting this online, but love you guys so I trust you....) 33 years old. My whole life I romantically imagined myself dying very very young. I am only now realizing that my extremely poor life planning was not just the result of an intelligent, lively, and ambitious teenager finally confronting…

My mother in law is 71 and still goes camping with girl guides, is part of a dart league, church functions, wanders off to Europe every few years. My husband’s now deceased grandfather was fine (just a bit deaf) until 97, when he got cancer. But he was still able to live on his own until that point.

I wouldn’t want to be 102 either, but think I’d put my target age a bit higher. My dad is 67, and he’s having a pretty good time with life right now, so it seems likely 73 won’t be all that bad either.

The fat shaming was the one reason I’ve stopped watching. I could barely stomach last week’s episode and I knew that I would just be a wreck if I watched this weeks.

I love her, and I love this song. And I’m not sorry.

We wrote letters to our future husbands as a youth group activity! I got super into it, because I was 15 and not allowed to date (no dating until 16 in my house), and we were taught to be the kind of person you would want to marry—if you want someone kind, be kind, etc. In my case, it was the reason I moved away and…

Catholic here, so I missed Brio, thank Christ. But for a period in high school I dabbled in the hard-core-bordering-on-evangelical-aspect of Catholicism (a particularly compelling youth group and very strict parents). I had completely forgotten about this until reading this article, but at one point, I was encouraged…

I get that you are just telling a joke but it’s kind of a dark one. Trans People are discriminated against, abused, and killed at an enormous rate. Whether you intended too or not your comment comes across as ridiculing the idea that gender would be anything other than what is in your pants. I would never advocate…

yeah, ‘cause trans people are known for being violent. *eye roll*

That’s not even slightly funny.

It could have been your Mother, after seeing how you turned out.

There have definitely been people in your life who’ve told you that you’re not funny. You should’ve listened to those people.

Oh honey, Fox News is a bit further down the hall, to the right.

Go away.

That’s a pretty unlikely and shitty joke.

If their standard of proof is, “Assumed to be guilty when evidence is ‘unclear,’” then I assume ALL rapists are immediately imprisoned.

Nah, men can’t help themselves, why hold them to any standard of basic humanity? This is about punishing women just for being women, anyway, so why get in the way of that with distractions?

So since we care about law and order so much there’s definitely an investigation into who raped her, and that guy is going to be arrested, yes?