Oh, You Eat Meat? Please, Feel Free To Berate Me.

It’s completely unfair to claim the burden of silence rests on someone whose basic intentions (one would hope), is to decrease suffering.
Samantha lives in Manhattan and is currently selling her soul in the music business.

In Defense Of First World Problems

Too often, “first world problem” is used to dismiss the earnest confessions of our peers. Along with its more intellectual cousin, accusing someone of ignorance of their “privilege,” these phrases are said with two intents: to belittle another while propping the accuser as an enlightened participant of Real Life. That’s wrong. 


Robert Wohner is a writer and blogger from Queens, New York City.
 

Is This Feminist?

Today in things that are both simple and mind-numbingly complex: feminism. Simply put, a feminist is someone who believes in equal rights for women: political, economic, and social. Not so difficult, right? But go beyond the simpleton explanation and things get a little… hairy. (GET IT? BECAUSE FEMINISTS DON’T SHAVE THEIR ARMPITS? LOL.)
January Nelson lives in Brooklyn.

An E-Mail From My Ex Revealing She Faked All Her Orgasms

Allow me to state, for the record, that of the 247 separate occasions when we fornicated, 87 of those occasions included a discreet, concerted effort by you to give me pleasure. Of those 87 recorded attempts, you were successful a grand total of zero times.

Dave lives and writes in LA.

5 Mistakes Every 20-Something Should Make

Everyone needs to have a crappy job. It’s practically the 20-something law. We can’t all be like Lauren Conrad and steam the occasional dress at an “internship” before landing our own fashion line.
Ryan O’Connell is a 25 year-old writer based in the East Village, New York.