Tracy, I think the panel agrees with me when I say that you’ve successfully defended your thesis here.

Those creatures were supposed to be the main villain of TNG, so they were setting up the rest of the series. The problem was Roddenberry was still dead set on the Federation being a perfect, utopian society of human perfection, and this plot went entirely against it so he scrapped the whole thing. Writers later…

My ex gave me Beelzebub once, but it really was not that bad. I had no symptoms and did not discover it until I had my annual physical. My doctor sent me home with a bottle of consecrated hosts that I had to take for a week and I was pretty much good to go after that.

I always apologize when other people do that to me. I also weirdly do it in a British accident even though I am from new york. So dumb on so many levels

I've just defaulted to "Excuse me". It works for me because the other person can assume I'm being polite/apologetic (because they're never at fault, oh no), and at the same time I know I'm basically telling them to get out of my way. Provided you say it in a neutral tone of voice, of course.

She's saying that it isn't even a rape-culture thing 100% of the time. If you smile, you're inviting further contact, and a lot of days you don't want to deal with potentially creepy people of either gender.

I'm with you 100 percent. Lay out all your cards, hiding them is tiring.

I remember seeing a thing from a woman who had immigrated to the US from...somewhere in Africa (I forget where exactly), and the big thing she commented on was how strange it was to her that people here just smiled all the time. I've also heard similar sentiments from various places in Europe: "Why are Americans…

I feel like this man was willed in to existence by the collective consciousness of at least 10% of tumblr's population.

I'll never remember that year I taught myself to enjoy beer.

Then there are families who focus so much on being "civilized" that they forget to pass on things like self-acceptance & self-love. Probably because they were too focused on being appropriate & civilized.

They know their home is in a pile. I don't want to confuse them.