Tangential, but I’m always struck by how the people complaining about “PC culture” are still saying the things they can’t say, but getting the bonus item of getting to complain about lib’ruls/women/POC/public education/civility in the same breath.

Knowing, from my hometown, some foolish stupid kids who did terrible things, made me bridge that gap.

Human rights issues aside, there’s also a huge cultural difference that probably would come into play.

This, this, this.

Ever read the comments on HamNo’s old “letters from death row?” Seemed pretty clear that a large swath of readers simply classed the prisoners are not-human and moved on.

Guy I went to school with is finishing year 18 of his 18 to life and may well be out within the next few years. When it’s not just some depraved felon, but a guy that’s living down the street from your parents, caring about whether there was job training, counseling and attempts at rehabilitation is a lot more…

I’m surprised there aren’t already trolls responding about how much they make in comparison to the men, on a 105 year average, and why turf is good enough, etc etc.

There are probably so many subcultures that are ripe for predators, but sports seems a world that is especially vile. After all the “you’re not really hurt” I endured from coaches and players in my brief career, I can see why rocking the boat, even in the most serious situations, seems to out of reach for these…

Agreed so much. I edited down a long tale of my own athletic failures, because no one would care, but sometime in jr high I realized being told off by an asshole wasn’t worth whatever benefits would come from sports. I had a good soccer coach and love that sport today, but being screamed at by the guy who will later…

As a spectrum person myself, government is best for me. In-house for a large nonprofit would also work, if I was a rock star that got offered such. But the constant cycle of fail to connect-oversympathize-fail to connect-burnout wore me out.

Part time work is where it’s at.

As a person with thinning hair myself, I still delight in it in his case.

Thank you. It’s minimal compared to what so many others deal with, but it’s a part of my core development, so it’s always there.

And I’m torn about our mother, to this day.

Are you underemployed and questioning why they offered “The Poetry of Law” and not “How do to a closing?” Oh, wait. That’s every lawyer.

One of our gunners once told me, after our torts final, that he thought it was too simple a test to separate the good students from people like me.

I had more issues at home than school, but there was some general “don’t sit by me, awkward poor gross person” sort of stuff. And last year the queen of all that and her husband messaged me to meet up a local bar. Never dealt with any of the past, just talked kids and jobs and, to me, moved past a lot of that without…

Good for you, seriously, to reach that point with your mother.

That’s throwing meat into the dog pit, right there.

And this weekend I had to listen to two actual adult women (family event) talk about how the casting couch is just how it is and these women, Olympic and actress, benefited and shouldn’t have the right to make a fuss years later.