"Sadly, no empirical data are ever presented that are relevant to the central claim."

And we're all their victims.

This is the most personality we've seen from Brittany since 2007 and I DIG IT.

Why did you put the word "groomed" in "quotes"?

What exactly are "large gypsy eyes?"

I had a couple of folks in Groupthink ask me about this, so I hope it's ok I re-post; I originally submitted it here. I have edited it to include the various theories that we've come up with as explanations (below the original story).

Several years back, we got a rescue pup. Now rescue pup (RP) had a tendency to bark for attention, never sat still and was 100% fearless (no, seriously. He tried to make friends with a working lawnmower. Fucking fearless). Right around the time RP turned one, he still was fearless, barked for attention and had…

This may not qualify but it was pretty terrifying at the time.

Now I must find a video of Obie on the beach.

Wait, you're looking at these photos and seeing something bad?

Obama's just like your girlfriend? you mean she shut you down too?

Idk, it seems like even the idea of penises being 'meant' for penetration a/o eruption is a cultured one. Why do we say 'penetration' instead of 'engulfment', which would make the vagina the actor? IMO what the vagina does is at least as 'violent': engulfing a penis, devouring and manipulating it, and forcing it to…

Practical Magic and The Craft are some of my favorites. But Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch is the BEST.

You know who else doesn't show a wide range of emotions? Infants. Because just like these characters they're all huge eyes and tiny smooth other features.

Being a really bad writer means you're insane now? Sorry, I just think this guy is an attention whore of Mr. Staypuftian proportions, and can't face up to anything approaching the truth about himself.

Sounds like he pulled an intentional Tom Sawyer in hopes of convincing everyone they were wrong about him.

I've dealt with this situation my entire relationship with my husband up until recently. Get it over with sooner rather than later—tell him his friend's a dick and bullying you. It took me threatening divorce (and really meaning it) to get my husband to come to his senses and call his so-called friend and let him know…

Ugh, my husband has a friend like this.

Little known etiquette rule that should be widely known: gifts are customary on many social occasions, but not mandatory.

It's not just the nudity, it's how it contextualized. It's largely framed as the Good Girl Gone Bad, co-oping subcultures and communities considered "dark" and "dirty" and "seedy." I feel like a culture of debasing oneself as a form of transgression has emerged and I am not entirely comfortable with it. For one, to…