Apparently, being single means having a neon sign above your head saying “Please! Tell me what to do with my life!” And it needs to stop. Do I give you unsolicited advice on your marriage? It was at my 10-year high school reunion when I was first hit with a singledom stinger. “Liz Best!” my former classmate […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, My friend is on the verge of cheating on her husband. She’s been confiding in me about […]
One day, our biggest fear was if he would pass the bar exam and the next he was being told he needed to bank sperm. Balls, cajones, rocks, nuts, “grow some balls,” “where are your balls?” “balls to the wall” and my personal favorite: “Balls said the Queen—if I had them I’d be King.” All […]
It’s my deep and personal feeling that videos of people being burned alive should not be fetishized anywhere on the internet. To start out, let me say this — I am not really one to shame someone for their sexual preferences or fetishes. However, there is a fine, fine line between safe, sane, and consensual […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, I don’t know how to get my friend back into my life. We’ve been friends for seven […]
The weed was the ripcord that turned my free-fall into a parachute glide for an hour or two. I used to be a drinker. After a long day of teaching high school students who refused to call me anything other than “Miss,” I’d pour myself a full glass of wine and settle under a blanket […]
Ortega and Hergovich argue that while old networks for coupling have gently dissolved, online dating has led people to connect differently, and in doing so, they’ve become less likely to marry within racial categories. Today, with over 50 million people on Tinder alone, the internet has become love’s kingdom of knowledge. Once stigmatized as a vacuous meeting […]
Data suggests these women don’t live in areas where conversations are happening around consent. When it comes to most Americans’ understanding of rape, we’re living in a more enlightened time than just a few years ago. Conversations around consent are commonplace, especially on college campuses where young women are most vulnerable to sexual assault. The […]
