If someone has to tell me they are a “good guy”, it’s a BIG red flag

That is just SO narcissistic.  UGH.  Why?  WHY would he even bother to compare the two?

Yup. Right after I voted to cancel men, I went on twitter on saw this:

“Dearest Salty,

Wake up alive on Black Friday and GTFO.

My father died on Thanksgiving Day twenty years ago. Thanksgiving dinner didn’t happen that year, and neither did Christmas. We were very close and it was very traumatizing.

The last time I traveled for Thanksgiving was when we drove up to my uncle’s house when I was pregnant with my youngest child. We were a full two hours late because it took us almost 8 hours to get there in some of the worst traffic I have ever seen on Thanksgiving Day. I spent the entire drive with a pie on my lap,…

Mid-Century Menu (http://www.midcenturymenu.com/) has to be one of my favorite food blogs, where they actually make and eat some of these horrid Jello concoctions. I’ve been following the blog for awhile now, and the author has come to the conclusion that Jello is actually a great way to preserve food. Perishable…

I’ll bite.. as a heavy travaller, while I can’t (and won’t speak for EVERYONE on the plane, I can give some reasonable answers to this):

See, no one gave a flying fuck what the gender of your kid was people. 

Gonna risk the social justice points and just state that “gender reveals” are the dumbest thing ever.

Those are good instincts that you have, though I’m sorry you went through something bad to get them. 

Person next to me pulls out a whole avocado from his bag; bites into it and tears a ~1" hole in the outer skin (spits/discards skin somewhere); then proceeds to eat the entire avocado by a combination of squeezing and sucking the insides out through this hole. This is in the first 15 minutes of a 5 hour flight.

Warning, anecdata ahead:

My experience is that it is often old people who are both more likely to be hard of hearing and also oblivious about how rude it is. It’s why old people never turn their phone ringers off, either.

The worst time for this was when my finger had been broken and out of alignment for 3 days and I was sitting in the ER…

I have absolutely seen it, and it’s not that rare. Most common with parents who have young kids. I used to complain about them before I had a kid of my own. Then I had a kid, taught him from a very young age that you had to be totally quiet on a train/bus/airplane and how to wear headphones, and now I complain about…

LOL children, you missed flying before internet.

LOL children,  you missed flying before internet. 

So, she reveals that she supports trans people and that she’s learning and trying to better herself on a topic and human condition that she wasn’t familiar with for most of her life. And the takeaway here is that that’s “not pretty”? The purity tests are unreal.

Bingo.  Its an odd tendency for many to try to box out allies on these issues and more.