Internet - xoJane

"Getting Spanked As Needed:" I Just Discovered Christian Domestic Discipline and It Makes Me Very Uncomfortable

Laura Rubino — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:00:00 -0400

The women who write about their CDD experiences online are not complaining. Many of them report feeling extremely calm and relaxed after being disciplined, and believe it is an expression of their husband caring about them enough to help them modify their behaviour.

My Internet Friend Died On Monday

Natalie — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:00:00 -0400

Somebody I've never met, but spoke to many times a week, died on Monday.

Pinterest Continues To Be a Web of Lies, or, That Time I Almost Set Myself on Fire

Claire Lower — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:00:00 -0400

Most of you know how I feel about Pinterest. I don’t know how many of you follow my “I don’t believe you board,” but there have been some doozies.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Gave Money To My Online Boyfriend Who I Never Actually Met

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:00:00 -0500

He didn’t have any money and he couldn’t come back to the States right away and he had to change his flight. I listened to this sob story and then he asked me to help him out, with whatever I could spare.

Jesus Christ, Can We Stop Blaming Technology for Our Inability to Build Friendships?

Kate Conway — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:00:00 -0500

This perennial face-clutching about how we're all going to die fused to our screens and with our lower halves slowly deflating like dampened papier-mâché never fails to make me roll my eyes.

Speaking Up About Gun Culture Made People Want To Hurt Me

Haley B. Elkins — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:30:00 -0500

I was unnerved that some people didn’t just disagree with me: they wanted my very existence, my very humanity, erased, as painfully as possible, starting with my vagina.

Max McCain Hopes I Die Of A Heart Attack

Rebecca Jane Weinstein — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:00:00 -0500

Human beings are so self-centered and imminently concerned with their own daily lives, do they really have the time and inclination to “hate” fat people? Hate?!

I Fed an Internet Troll and I Wish I Hadn't

Rebecca — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:00:00 -0500

Obviously I wasn’t to blame for her illness or her behavior, but would her attack have spiraled so deeply out of control if I hadn’t done what I reviled most and hid behind the mask the Internet affords to give her a taste of her own medicine?

How to Make Sense of Internet Commenters and Coming to Terms With the Fact That I Am "The Girl You Love to Hate"

Mandy — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:00:00 -0400

Jane told it to me once, so it has to be true. Okay then.

I Googled Myself and I'm Singing Songs to My Exes In Cyberspace

Julia Pugachevsky — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:30:00 -0400

Being the only Julia Pugachevsky in the world, I can't exactly deny that what you see has, in fact, been produced by me.

Would I Choose Twitter Over Having Sex? Yeah, Probably

Kate Conway — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:00:00 -0400

I mean, not ALL the time. But sometimes it just seems like the lesser effort to scroll through a bunch of strangers' thoughts on Downton Abbey than to actually get naked with someone.

So, About Those Naked Pictures of You on the Internet

Julieanne — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:00:00 -0400

Blaming women for taking private, nude photos of themselves is tantamount to blaming them for being nude in the privacy of their own showers, what with the potential for window treatments to billow in the wind, or the possibility of a fire breaking out.

How to Meet Dudes for Sex Online (Without Getting Serial Murdered)

Emily — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:00:00 -0400

When I was a college student, I used an email that was traceable enough that I was blackmailed by a guy who threatened to put posters all over my campus with my picture and saying what a SLUT I WAS if I didn't meet him!

Strip Club Science: Stripper Jedi

Skipper Jones — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:19 -0400

Unlike most newbie dancers, I did not improve for a freakishly long time.

I'm Fat According to the Internet

Tracy — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:00:28 -0400

The first time I saw the word “fat” in reference to me, I stared at it for a full minute in complete silence. It really stung. I was immediately self-conscious and embarrassed that these comments were out there in a public forum for other people to see.

In the Fat vs. Skinny Smackdown, Everybody Loses

Somer Sherwood — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:00:24 -0400

Skinny women are more often thought of as mean, controlling and superficial, while fat women are seen as lazy, sloppy and slow.

Internet Social Justice Mob Goes Batshit on Activist, Has No Sense of Irony

Erin Gloria Ryan of Jezebel — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:30:24 -0400

Have you ever said something sort of dumb and immature on the internet?

My Week Without Phones or Internet (I'm Alive!)

Julieanne — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:00:22 -0400

I was mostly just completely, utterly wigged out about not being online for a week. I am that sad.

What Do You Want from Your Women's Web Site?

Julieanne — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:22 -0400

I'm talking about women's web sites tonight with some women's web site-ers. What should I say?

It Happened to Me: My Blog Went Viral And I Freaked Out

Somer Sherwood — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:00:25 -0400

Here's the thing about becoming Internet-famous: in my experience, it sort of makes you want to quit the Internet entirely.