God, imagine being in any grade from kindergarten to high school and your classmates knowing your real name is Baby. Imagine being in college and having to introduce yourself to a crush or to potential new friends as Baby. Imagine going to a professional networking event and having to explain to every. Single. Person.…

If you’ve been engaged for seven years and have two kids but no date set, I think it’s safe to say you’re not getting married. Yes, I know these two already broke up, but I’ve seen a couple of advice seeking letters where people suggest announcing an engagement with no date as a way to solidify the relationship.

He’s the same kind of guy that complains about how his daughter is growing up to be a real bitch just like her mom. 

Oh, he taught her something, all right. He taught her not to go to him for help, that he values humiliating her over caring for her, and that he’s enough of an asshole to put what he did all over Twitter, because ha ha look how stupid and incapable my daughter is.

It’s almost as if the old “tough dad” way of raising your kids was all about never, ever interracting with your children in any meaningful way...

I get the sense that the people saying “she wasn’t going hungry” would be immediately heading to HR with a list of state and federal labor requirements if their boss told them not to take a lunch break.

Let’s also note that this started because he was in the middle of a jigsaw puzzle. The subtext of his tweets is pretty goddamn clear that he was fucking with her because she bothered him when he was doing his puzzle.

In my experience, yes - if you are an abusive asshole who knows that any moment at all can be mined for evidence that the child is a stupid, useless person. The child will eventually internalize that lesson, and spend a lot of their adult life away from you trying to unlearn it.

She said she was hungry. That’s why she asked for food. I’m not sure what you mean when say “abuse would require that she actually ‘went hungry’” when she was literally hungry, apparently hungry enough to undergo six hours of frustration. If she wasn’t really that hungry, presumably she would have just given up rather…

Just going to preface this by saying that nothing in my original comment suggested that I thought this child was dying of starvation, and that your argument is disingenuous because it’s a counterpoint to a point that no one is making.

I was born with an overdeveloped shame/self-consciousness gene. I used to think it was a bad thing because it took a lot of effort for me to learn to do things like public speaking properly, but now I think it’s a blessing because at least I have never and never will embarrass myself publicly by being a…

Late 2000s, early 2010s breakup vagueposting was more fun with the defiant Marilyn Monroe quotes. “If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best” - Marilyn Monroe. Met with many “you go girl responses!”. Good times. Now, the vogue is Goop inspired conscious uncoupling notes app n…

I’m well aware of the recording, hon. I live here. The recording also drew people in who were curious. My point is, the man detonated a bomb that decimated an entire block, so acting like he’s some compassionate person is hilarious.

[Knock knock]

They had a lot of options short of bashing in his door. For example, actually interviewing him.

It reminds me of the woman who dated Ted Bundy for years. I’m watching the documentary on Amazon Prime (Falling for a Killer) and it does a nice job of focusing on the women - both the victims and the women who knew him as well as the women who tracked him (first woman cop in that area) and reported/interviewed him…

I don’t think weaponizing Karens is a good idea...

Won’t solve it. The culture is rotten and internalized misogyny is only going to metastasize in that environment. Like all others who enter the force with the best intentions, the ones with scruples will get drummed out or corrupted and only the cool-girl/pick me-types will survive.

Yeah, but he had his property surrounded by fences, surveillance cameras, and possible trip-wires. Things that totally innocent people do all the time.

Damn straight - so many people could have been killed by a bomb of that size. I know I’m taking liberties in speculating, but....I can just picture these cops chuckling about the vindictive “crazy lady” trying to make her poor man’s life difficult as they call for the ambulance so she can get her head examined. “Unbeli…