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We think we’re more enlightened now because we’ve updated the vocabulary, but there hasn’t been any fundamental shift in our shallow, materialistic, competitive culture.

Mental illness is not a permissible reason to call someone crazy. I have been fiercely bawling because I couldn’t catch my breath. Your chest locks up and you don’t know what you’re scared of but fear runs through your veins.

he problem with dealing with a sexual assault that happens at a fraternity house is that the sexual assault turns into the fault of the fraternity, and less the fault of the individual. I was afraid that it would minimize his actions and he would blame the culture he was engrossed in. I knew that there was no excuse. I knew he needed help.

I became cynical. A lot of bad bitter things I suspected about the world were confirmed in college. The lies my parents told me my entire life came to light, and I couldn’t take it. I ended up telling lies of my own – to myself, my friends, and especially to my mom and dad. I thought I could punish them by twisting the words I had previously meant.

I’m addicted to false validation.

The Internet is not the problem. I am the problem.

It can be liberating to rip the band aid off and lose the friends that are just weighing you down, freeing you up for the relationships that really are worth your while.

Men don’t know how to handle such behavior. You give them an inch and they take a mile. You literally, and I mean literally, cannot be polite to them, or at the very least act in a friendly manner towards them, without sending the wrong signal. It sounds pathetic, but years in a male-dominant profession have solidified my observations.