I used to think that most adults grew out of this needy type of behavior but apparently it’s not true. You need to maintain SOME individualistic behavior in a long-term relationship or else you’ll get sucked into the other person’s... being, or life or something I can’t think of at this moment. Whatever. I think you…

Ugh, my ex- used to get upset when I didn’t go to bed at the same time as he did. It was weird, and the tip of the iceberg of what was apparently crippling-to-the-point-of-destabilizing insecurity about my feelings for him. This fear of his was constantly reinforced in his mind by minor things like my forgetting some…

This. I really wish that for a month women would just stop doing all the things that keep homes running that most men can’t be bothered to do. No going to get groceries, no reminding him that it is his mom’s birthday, no bringing the kids to school, no coming home from a long day at work and immediately starting to…

This. If it’s a pop by while we’re at the mall (which, why the fuck would I ever, ever set foot in a mall) sure, I’ll go in, but otherwise: nope. I guess I would go if it were taking our kids (don’t have any). Otherwise, like you do your thing I’ll do mine is pretty great; including for short weekend trips and shit.…

Why wouldn’t husbands and wives just go on their own damned shopping excursions unless there is something to be procured that is of interest to both of them? I have never understood this tired-out cliche of the poor dumbass whiny husband being “dragged” shopping by the demanding wife. The last time my wife and I went…

She didn’t say how many members of her class have died. She said three of her friends from her graduating class have died before the age of thirty. Friends.

The author is clearly from New York City. It is unusual for privileged (I’m guessing from the story) kids from NYC to die young. I am sorry for your losses, but what a bitchy way to respond to a story about loss.

I don’t get it either. Such a strange reaction. Also, I know everyone here is from different places (I’m from a fairly safe city in Europe) but not having a bunch of people from your class die soon after or during school hardly strikes me as ‘lucky’. I’m almost 30 and there has only been one death in my graduating…

C’mon, man. Did you really have to misery-one-upsmanship this article? Do you walk into funerals and ask “You think this is bad? My parents, siblings, and cats all died in a house fire.”

1. At Jezebel, we side with the accuser because the likelihood she’s lying is stastically remote. But thanks for making assumptions about our motivations.

You know what you should 100% NOT DO? You should 100% NOT find this boy on Facebook and send these pics to him. You know how I know this? I know this because the girl who loved me in the 8th grade recently did this.

You do know that everything we feel is some combination of chemicals and receptors, right? If those chemicals are being released is there really a difference?

Gah, the hostility that can arise when some point of knowledge comes up is just... baffling to me. Case in point: my mom and I were watching a documentary this weekend and they mentioned the whole ‘civilization begins in Sumer’ thing and she pointed out that with organized government arising there, we should deliver…

There is something to be said about the complete lack of curiosity, though. Where I live, people definitely don’t want to feel as if they’re being talked down to, but they also immediately assume someone is being patronizing the second that person says something that the other doesn’t know or understand. I can’t count…

This is a case where the parents are being abusive by putting the baby through completely pointless pain and suffering. At that point, it makes sense for government to step in and protect the child from his parents. Now, the parents believe this further pain and suffering has a chance to improve his condition, but…

That’s some dystopian nanny state creepiness, *even if* I agree that it’s not in the child’s best interest. It’s not my child, or the British government’s child.

The baby could die on the way. He can’t survive without his life support machines and the flights to the United States would be very hard on him. The government/doctors are acting in the best interest of the child. The UK ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Meaning that in the UK parents are not the…

So, a couple things:

First, medical care in the UK is nationalised. So, the options in country are limited as its all one system. The concept of shopping around is limited at best and often just not a thing.

Second, the institution in Charlie Gard is in is actually one of the very best pediatric medicine institutions…

The government hasn’t intervened in this in any way whatsoever. We have an independent judiciary. Why is this so hard for some Americans to understand?

Crash course on medical ethics.