There's a pretty big difference between holding someone up and purposefully taking advantage of the situation in order to cop a feel.

"I didn't really realize that the time, half a lifetime ago, was that the reason we were poor wasn't that we didn't have much money. We didn't have much money, or we were poor, because we were making poor decisions consistently."

You should absolutely be able to do that.

What about Cosmos? Or like, How It's Made? CSPAN?

Well thanks for being honest about the fact that you're just doing cold reading, I guess.

He won me over when he was explaining why nori makes a perfect medium for tabs of acid.

I keep writing and rewriting my response because it keeps coming out sounding kind of weird.

That was her idea initially too! I didn't like it though because I felt that open communication was too important, and that keeping secrets like that from each other could end up blowing up in our faces. It also occurred to me that one of us (probably me) might one day need the other to confirm with a potential FWB…

Funnily enough, my girlfriend falls into that camp. We technically opened our relationship like a year and a half ago and I've been on and off dating sites and flirting sporadically, but nothing's ever come of it. On the other hand, she's never had any interest in pursuing anyone else at all.

No more than you get on any other relatively popular psuedo-feminist website, really. Like Jezebel has it's share of MRAs and mansplainers too.

As a member of that subreddit, yeah, the name is a little TERFy. The atmosphere and the members there are not TERFy at all though. Pretty much everyone is welcome there.

The whole story, to me, is basically a thorough deconstruction/criticism of the high fantasy genre. So it's great if you're into that sort of thing. GRRM likes to subvert all the tropes of a classic hero's journey-type story, and the point of the violence in the books is, imo, to illustrate that the sort of society…

Yeah, sure. But then how will people know how above-it-all I am? Jeez.

It's beneficial to bloggers who get paid based on clicks.

It took very little effort.

"So what's so fascinating here?"

Good. I will. I'm glad we can agree that nobody should care what you think.

I get it though. I mean, to the extent that it's possible for me to get it, I think. I don't like it but I get it.

I haven't called you anything nasty. And you've agreed with everything I've said, except for calling you a hypocrite. Fair enough. This discussion is obviously not going anywhere and I'm already feeling like a bit of an asshole for telling a woman how to respond to her own oppression, so yeah. Agree to… agree?

Who asked you?