Doesn't exactly fit the theme, but someone downthread reminded me of when I was 19 and worked at a cafe in a super white town and would constantly get people asking "what are you?" and then being disappointed when I rattled off every country in Northern Europe and then added, "oh, but my grandma is Black Irish so…

AHHHHH OMG GIRL YOU ARE LUCKY YOU MADE IT OUT ALIVE.

This is what happens when you poll people while they're sitting in church. Never trust a pew poll.

He had several framed pictures of a woman I had assumed to be an ex-girlfriend or something. Whatever. One day he asked me if I wanted to know who she was—he then proceeds to tell me that this woman was his sister (then did look a bit alike, to be fair). She was raped and murdered several years ago. He couldn't talk…

I once dated a guy that spoke with a British accent and claimed to have grown up in England. We dated for about a month when we randomly met his parents... Who had no accents. He fessed up pretty fast, but it was beyond awkward.

Technically, not a lie, but I went on a first date with a guy and we started talking about family traditions and weddings came up. He said something about Polish weddings and I asked, "Are you Polish?" "No." "Have you been to a Polish wedding? Whose? When?" "Uh...mine." In all our online exchanges, he never mentioned…

I once had a boyfriend call me when he was out, tell me drunkenly that he was coming over - and that he was in a "crazy" stretch limo with his coworkers and a bunch of strippers. I managed to get a "what!?" out before he hung up. He showed up at my door and when I asked him about it, he was just said "what? no..."…

Well this one time

My fiancee lost the engagement ring. Then she ''found it'' a few weeks later in a pile of linen. Much celebration. A few months later she admitted that she lost it down the drain, and bought a duplicate ring to fool me.

I hope the reply is something like "The shirt has retracted its shirt-services from a society that doesn't appreciate it, and will return when the parasites admit they need it."

"Boy is my face red" -Rick Reilly

Thanksgiving at the Reilly house is going to be awkward on so many levels this year

I. . . actually believe this apology. I find myself actually a bit moved.

Unless it's about rape?

Atheist and SUPER DUPER pro choice. Like Sanger-level pro choice.

OBJECTIVISM.

But why did they pull the shirt, though? Was someone objecting to it? I mean, we should object to it, but when did that stop Forever 21 from doing anything?

She was an atheist, which the right-wing christianists seem to overlook.

I always love when Paul Ryan waxes poetic about a militantly atheist, vehemently pro-choice woman.

I'm assuming it was Zeus.