She isn't seen much in public anymore because of the dementia.

Kid reminds me of a little girl I used to work with, who'd gaze up at the sky in despair when you said hi to her and say "don't even SPEAK to me, i'm stressed!"

Looked like sarcasm to me. It's cool. I was homeschooled for a year and a half. Brought my mother and me 100 times closer, and meant I did much, much better in my exams than I would have done otherwise.

Well, I'm glad you haven't, and I'm glad you've had a much more positive experience with feminism on the interwebs than I have.

Yes, you're right. Sorry - I was actually responding more to several comments I saw, and (perhaps wrongly) decided the best way to express my opinion was to simply comment on the original article, instead of going around and commenting on different threads.

Okay. Here goes.

Eh, I eat, but only if the bus/train is fairly clear, or I'm starving. I also sit in the aisle seat, but then the one time I thought hey, I'll move over like the people of the internet always bitch about me not doing, I got blocked in by a huge guy who really, really wanted to touch my hair. So you can ask me to move,…

I agree wholeheartedly with the first part of your comment - though men were briefly mentioned, there is little to no consideration made for the fact that MEN GET SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. And, though I don't have the stats to back it up, they're also very probably less likely to report it than women. It's not just in…

Hence my version: I am eating this. Screw your five second rule.

If it's my floor, I don't care if it's been five seconds or fifty. I will eat my goddamn food.

Amazing people. Thank you - in a thread full of awfulness, you've managed to give me at least one reason not to fear all of humanity!

I laughed. Then I felt bad. Then I laughed more.