You've bored us all to death with this.

The moral panic over trigger warnings often evokes … the figure of the oversensitive student who is not attuned to the difficulty and discomfort of learning as if to say: if we let your sensitivities become law we lose our freedom. I would argue that freedom has become reduced to the freedom to be offensive, which is also about how those with power protect their right to articulate their own views, no matter what.

[T]he romantic glosses over information about his beloved that contradicts his personal desires. Romantic love is a form of reductionism, reducing woman from her full range of human potential to a tiny list of male desires. […] The cult of the romantic erases woman’s identity as a wrench in the machine of male domination.

I’m not where I need to be, but thank god I’m not where I used to be.

How someone reacts to your sadness says a lot about how long they’re going to be in your life.

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: “Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.

If I pulled a you on you, you wouldn’t like that shit