Is Dollar this guy's original last name? Because if so wow, how apt.

I love how the kittens are all "oh, hey, a bunch of random people keep screaming at me every time I roll over - never mind, I'll just chill here in my bowl".

Or they could be depressed because people like FOTF keep telling them that they're going to hell and taking the rest of the country with them. That's also a possibility.

Have there been other fatal attacks on kids since? And yeah, the response always did read as people being uncomfortable with her way of responding and seeing it as not feminine or motherly enough to me.

Ooh, can they be ginger cookies?

No shit. If it makes a woman uncomfortable, she isn't required to explain the reasons why to a bunch of random strangers. I can't believe that I'm reading people suggest that women should be expected to do so on a feminist-leaning blog.

The first gyno I saw was a man, and when I winced as he was inserting the speculum he got angry with me and told me to stop "making a fuss" because "this doesn't hurt". And from there on in he was even rougher.

I'm neither Muslim nor uncomfortable around men in most medical contexts and I wouldn't want male mammogram technicians. For those who haven't had one - 10 minutes is actually pretty quick, it can take longer. You stand around topless with the technicians moving you around into place in relation to the machines, which…

A kid who's seen too many slasher movies? My parents let me watch Friday the 13th with older friends of the family when I was 8. It wasn't a good idea - I'm still not afraid of the dark, but I did have nightmares about psychos hiding under my bed and stabbing me through the mattress after that, and I got awfully…

They really are. My granny had one when I was a kid, and her job was to stop me from killing myself by various suicidal toddler means such as trying to run down the steep stone stairs or jump off the top of the wardrobe. That dog herded me like a champ - no one even told her to, apparently, she just took it upon…

Yep. The first Muslim country I lived in was Libya, which was relatively easygoing from a religious perspective. Then we moved to Saudi Arabia, and it was a very unpleasant surprise to learn that, for example, I was considered too womanly and seductive to ride a bicycle at age 9.

There should be a portable charm of banishment that women can carry around. Unfortunately garlic only works on vampires, not assholes - maybe sage?

I'm a germphobe too, just for added WTF, had to throw those headphones away. I just sat there stunned for a moment, then went "what the hell was that?". He sulked for the rest of the flight.

April Fools Day came late this year, apparently. It's a June miracle!

Sometimes it is. My favorite example, which I already referenced above, was when a guy was pestering me on a plane and I told him I was going to listen to music, attempted to do so, and then he ripped one of my earbuds out and put it in his own ear while going "hey, what are you listening to?".

The all time winner was the dude who when I tried to ignore him reached over, yanked the earbud out of my ear, and put it in his ear, all while saying HEY, WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

I don't think she started out intending to shame him either - she didn't even know who he was. I do find the involvement of Twitter buddies, following their suggestions, etc., a bit odd.

This reminds me of the Open Source Boob Project debacle a few years back. Even in the few situations in which a woman's default response is assumed to be no, you always get a few obnoxious guys arguing that it should in fact be yes and can we maybe work on that? If we don't fix the little stuff, like the idea that any…

If you feel like some wall headbanging, just for lulz, read the comment below yours.

It would actually have been far less effective, since the number of people who might have observed that happening on the plane is much smaller than the number of people who could potentially witness it via Twitter.