Yeah, I’m chewing it over...I’m not entirely sure I was right to say that.

Oh, yeah. I very much agree. I’d tell a friend-- “you won’t believe what I just saw”. We’d commiserate, and probably have a laugh or two, much like with those ‘Crap Emails From a Dude’.
I wouldn’t put it out there on social media; that just feels very wrong.
I like that the guy’s face is obscured with scribbles in the…

Yes. To me it’s a matter of practicality. If my assumption, flawed or not, leads me to behave with greater compassion, I don’t feel like it matters all that much if I’m wrong.

Oh, that’s the thing, isn’t it. The media may often react in a mocking manner towards behavior like this...but we as readers do have a choice.

As to who we want to be as people, and how we accordingly respond.
Even if he’s just a bit weird--it’s really not easy being different and I don’t think a little compassion…

Sure, it’s weird. But, just in my experience-- after 20 years of riding (my city)‘s transit, it’s gotten so that I don’t give this stuff a second thought. It’s only when people seem super angry and violent that I have any fucks to give.

See my comment below re: diagnosing mental illness in massacre gunmen.

I think generally there’s less harm in erring on the side of compassion. Even people who are just ‘a little off’ can use a little kindness--it’s not easy being different.

Could be. But.

In a nation quick to ‘diagnose’ massacre gunmen with mental illness (and thus spread inaccurate, stigmatizing, harmful info about mental illness)--

Within that national context I figure it’s relatively innocuous to urge people to err on the side of compassion when dealing with someone who *may* just be…

Mmm...yeah. I hear you, but...my feeling is, if you wouldn’t mock someone for having cancer, don’t mock someone for being mentally ill.

OMG

Let’s be honest. Her writing’s about mocking the unwell uncool kid for laughs. It’s not about how ‘scared’ she is or anything like that.

Ride public transit and get over yourself, lady. There are all kinds of people out there, and...that’s fine.

Asking for a friend...who, ok, is me...
How are we supposed to clean our adult toys now?

Now I want that to happen. A modern sequel, or rewrite of Pot-Bouille. In the vein of Pride and Prejudice with Zombies—but without all the drooling and decrepitude.

At first I thought you were talking about Emile Zola, and I’m like “wow, this is some high toned snark.”

That is definitely very interesting, and worth my time—I’d like to know more about him, and this looks like a great place to start. But I meant the women he’s had in his life—Amber and Kim. Their passion is for making money. Their ambition is to make money.

LOL AGING AMIRITE
wait. everyone does that.

Hmm. Maybe I’m wrong, as I don’t follow these people’s lives closely. But as far as I can see, all either want to do is to make money.
Neither has displayed any passion or interest in anything else.

I don’t know, man. All parties involved have consistently lived their lives in a trashy manner. Half of what we know about them is as made up as a soap opera plotline. I am far from a genius so I don’t know what to make of anyone who takes this seriously or who feels anything for these fools.

oh my gosh. AMAZING idea.

That’s what I’m saying. But it doesn’t seem to stop kids these days.
Yeah, I know...get off my lawn!

They used to think the same thing about Robin Williams. Not proof that BRAND has the chops, but I’d like him to have a chance to show what he can do.