Why would you not pick a specific wine for the meal?  Like, it takes a few minutes on google at most to figure out a decent pairing.

Agreed with the “what are you going to do about it” thing.

The approach is bad because when you have an organization that’s as targeted as Planned Parenthood, trying the whole “oh, but we don’t do *too many* abortions” tactic is just weak. Your opponents are out there trying to murder your doctors because they give *any* abortions or birth control, and they don’t care if you…

Yup. Caroline has that ‘Dickie’ “I’m a charming, charismatic selfish jerk” thing going on, but Natalie is going waaaaay Ripley here.

Yeah.  She seemed self-centered and thoughtless in her personal life and a hot mess in her professional life, but Natalie seems like a bigger trainwreck plus a spiteful mess of jealousy and obsession issues.

Well, here it seems like Nat has some sort of love-hate obsession with Caroline, where she wants to be her and wishes for her downfall at the same time, and it’s all enhanced by the fact that Nat has the common sense and life skills of a concussed hamster. Like, why don’t you have your own key for the Amsterdam place?…

Also why the fuck didn’t you get 2 keys?

For what it’s worth, I agree. Reading the essay was my first exposure to this, but Nathalie came off as way worse than her friend. Caroline seemed like a self-centered hot mess with enough looks, charm and money to scrape by, and enough youth to make her general idiocy a little forgivable, but Nat came across as…

Doctors are really the dumbest smart people ever.

Probably general misogyny.

My mom was a cop and repeatedly witnessed officers protecting their soldiers from consequences of abusing their partners. One time his commanding officer found out from her commanding officer that she was making an abuse report, so he personally went down to the station to confront her and pressure her into rescinding…

Ah, yes, the “oh, are you outraged? You’re just virtue signaling” retort that all sad little edgelords resort to eventually. I’m not outraged - just mildly disdainful that you have so little going on in your life that you need to try yelling slurs like a tourette sufferer and using that pathetic “no, I have special…

Ah yes, the “I’ve spent time in other countries and they think using this slur is ok - so that rubs off on me by association” argument.  Sorry, it’s crap.  You don’t get special continental slur privileges just because you occasionally got drunk with some non-Americans.

By that logic you can call anyone any slur you like and expect “well, I don’t see it that way” to get you out of trouble.  It doesn’t actually work like that.

Nah.  You don’t pull out the slurs when someone gets shitty.  You insult their behavior - not their gender/ethnicity/religion.

Why? Well, maybe he didn’t want to. Maybe he decided that rather than have a lengthy and probably pointless argument in person, HR could earn their paycheck for once.  This sort of thing literally *is* their job, you know.

Yes, “there is a time and place for all words,” and sometimes that time and place is “not in the office.” He wasn’t fired for using the word in his private time, he wasn’t even fired for using it at work. He was just nicely asked “hey, we’d rather keep the office an Nword-free space, mkay,” and he threw a shitfit. …

Yup. The right goes “feminism is just mindless championing of any woman regardless of her actions or qualifications” and then calls the left hypocritical when that turns out not to be true.  

Yeah, I’d like to see it done like that ‘The Queen’ thing, with a different actress for each stage of her life.

Seriously, a friend drops by and is like “hey, can I have a gun for... reasons?” and he’s just like “yeah, no prob - want a knife too?”