Agreed.

True. And I don’t know, maybe they’re right, maybe they’re not, but there have to be better ways than the uncomfortable, stilted dating game...

THANK YOU. Same. I remember when Gen X was getting these stupid fucking scare articles about how dating is over and everybody panic!!!!!! but it’s actually based on what like 10 super-assholes are doing in Manhattan.

East San Diego and East County here (yes, I’m trailer trash.) Agreed!

Oh my god this is delightful.

Anecdata time! I’m very direct, but polite, and I try to not apologize unless I’m truly sorry, and not minimize requests. In office situations, which I avoid as much as possible, I am roundly and openly despised, mostly by other women.

Just yesterday, a man explained to me the difference between race and ethnicity, citing an article as proof to back him up. Unfortunately, for him, I wrote the article.

Same. I will confess, though, that I have been having sex with the same person for a long time and no one else, and that a lot of the time it’s pretty tender, and we say I love you and laugh together a lot. It’s so unfashionable.

Do you think it’s funny when everyone gets stoned, goes up on the roof, and throws apples at joggers just because they’re jogging?

she judges me for not having a life as rad as hers

dongs

Same. I guess the therapy worked. People don’t like me? (And they often don’t) - THEIR LOSS! Bye, shitlords.

I used to stay up all night agonizing over whether I had offended or upset or pissed someone off. Somewhere along the line I stopped giving a shit. It’s so liberating! Highly recommended.

“ I’ve been fired like that, just for asking a girl out who was a total tease, who had slept with probably half the office too, but just the circumstances..”

I mean, every outlet has its issues. The best way to get a good feel for what’s going on in the world is a steady diet of various news feeds.

Nothing at all is wrong with it, it’s just incomplete and they’ve lost a lot of great staff to Al Jazeera. They tend to focus most on post-Empire countries.

Can I apply this to my rotten stepmother? My mom’s cool. My father’s wife (and my father) are terrible people.

What?!?!

I can actually think of some social situations in which I would love to be able to projectile vomit. Family reunions, political fundraisers, SPJ meetups... the list is endless.

Heyyyy kinda-neighbor! C’mon out to the Blind Lady sometime (but not Fridays, that’s Peak Hipster.)