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This is fantastic. I am so happy to see this. I really hope it is appearing in schools all over Japan. Even so many young adults do not know this most basic information.

If I saw Sheen coming towards me on the sidewalk, I would not only not give him 84 seconds, I would cross the street to avoid him, and probably hold my breath until I was upwind of him. (Don't want to risk catching whatever cooties made him into that...thing.)

How can you expect Mississippians to accept decent health care WHEN THERE IS A NEGRO IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

Yeah, such a snob, that woman. No time for the little people (and Sheen is certainly a very, very little person).

Well, that piece disappeared from W's site in a hurry. Let it never be said that people working in fashion are the brightest bulbs in life's marquee.

I starred all of them.

Folks, before you feed this troll, look through his many hate-filled comments and consider the source. Oh, here's a dandy: "Why should us Muslims support Gay people? they are an abomination and deserve what is coming to them." Suddenly nomadichorde's comment seems less like a criticism of Orientalism and more like an…

Do you live in Japan? I've lived here for 19 years, and while I think it's a serious problem, I would not say it is "seriously out of control" or "next level." Ask Kat about bullying in American schools. She experienced it first hand. This is one reason I am reluctant to voice criticism of Japan to non-Japanese, and…

As Kat knows, I live in Japan. (Urban Kyoto, specifically.) I recently noticed what I am 90% certain is a trans girl of high school age on my daily train route lately. She wears a boy's school uniform but everything else about her (her hair, the decorations on her school-issued bag, the way she holds her bag, etc.)…

I can't believe I even have to say this, but her daughter didn't do anything other than passively be conceived and grow in the womb. If you consider that body "ruined" (I don't), you could say that pregnancy ruined her body, or that she ruined her body by choosing to become pregnant and carry the fetus to term, but…

Of the nine whispers Erin picked up, I would say that a generous reading would put five in the "moments of doubt or despair" category you describe. I can even manage some sympathy for the woman who says she loves her children but regrets having them every day. (At least she does not seem to be blaming her children,…

...and that such parents are being hailed as honest heroes here.

I regularly do, thanks.

A moment of frustration?

Remember the obituary written by the daughter of the world's worst mother that went viral a few months ago? Remember how we all expressed sympathy for her poor, traumatized children? Apparently if that mother had written about her hatred for her children on Whisper, we would all be hooting and saying "You go…

I think it's pretty awesome myself. At least they had fun with it and were more strictly (though not thoroughly) faithfull to white tie protocol. I think Neil looks fantastic in a scary kind of way, but David ends up looking like a circus master of ceremonies.

Precisely. I would LOVE to have an excuse to do serious formal white tie, complete with ribboned pumps. Half these dudes should have their privileges revoked. INVITE ME NEXT YEAR!

You know, the top thread in the comments section here could have been a really useful and information conversation led by two really smart and informed people if it both parties hadn't immediately turned it into a really nasty and entirely unhelpful flame war. It was so unnecessary and painful to read. If either party…

Wow. So sorry about your dad. Your sense of humor will serve you well in the years to come. Hang onto it!