While I agree in some ways, I don't want to live in a country where someone saying, "You're a bitch and I'd like to see you dead" or "I'll fucking kill you, you asshole" gets you arrested.

I had a highly intelligent if emotionally and socially underdeveloped male friend tell me that,

The "point". Hmm. Nope, don't particularly care about that, because you aren't making any points I find interesting.

Basically, it can make even bigger the already bigger problem of confirmation bias that the internet has already given us.

I can't say it's commonplace around me. Just not unheard-of.

Very similar to what someone else mentioned, I've not fought off tears so someone could tell how upset I was. I cannot fake tears on purpose and have never once used them to "manipulate" a friend or lover in an argument.

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I take exception to that.

I've said it at least once or twice — completely as a joke.

Indeed, but it's..........well, in my experience.......usually a joke.

I love how he consistently uses the word "allow".

Good example. I can definitely eat ice cream, though it gives me heartburn and less pleasant things if I eat more than a little.

I've never felt very comfortable listening to rap. In part because grew up around white people who were way too into rap. I doubt my reasons were entirely laudable, but neither were they precisely based on racism in the way you're suggesting. (I felt, before I had fancy words for it, that there was something wrong…

I really should have known. Southern cooking.

Wow, that explains a couple things.

I went vegetarian for a only about a year and half in high school and experienced digestive upset when I accidentally ate some ham in green beans.

The one that got me was "despatch".

No, you weren't. You were ignoring the point in favor of a distorted form of it. Otherwise known as a strawman fallacy — which you made even more charming by also featuring the slippery slope fallacy.

Lazy? *squint* I feel like it's a lot more effort. My vag is far more accommodating to the entire process.

My current boyfriend and I had a threesome (or whatever you call formally letting a third party watch you) before our first date, and we've been together about 5 years.