On Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, Sundance channel's new TV show, Joel Derfner and I find ourselves in the middle of The Jealousy Plot:

He likes boys, so do I.

He's a writer, so am I.

He gets married, I do not.

Boy, this role is...

So many times over the last 20 years I have wanted to put my arms around my teenage self and whisper in her ear: It gets better.

You will not be a teenager forever. You will not be alone. You won't always be in pain. You'll stop caring about fitting...

My best friend Joel and I have been asked to think about the message why?

Why on earth would a girl need a GBF?

That girl with the GBF is soooo fabulous. She's Mercedes to his Curt, Carrie to his Stanford, Harper to his Truman. She's not so haggy she...