Never show any sign of weakness. Be thrilled that you are single and when someone asks, "So are you seeing anyone?" respond with, "Nope! I don't have to deal with any in-laws, I don't have to buy additional presents, I don't have to split my holiday time between two families, it's fantastic!" Seriously, nobody asks me…

I'm going to concur with the other people responding. This guy DOES NOT genuinely want to know "what to do with your stuff." He wants to engage in conversation with you by any means necessary. It's probably tempting to write back and say "Fuck off! Don't contact me ever again!" but just think of him like an Internet…

A million times this. I worked as a tech writer in a male-dominated (95%) company for two years. After a while my coworkers knew me personally and the quality of my work, so I could start dressing up a bit if I wanted to, but then we'd hire some new coders and I'd have to start all over again in establishing to them…

Agreed 100%.

Snow after one week in NYC is only a Christmassy wonderland if your Christmassy wonderland is a pee-stained, grime-encrusted mound of styrofoam on every street corner, crunchy salted sidewalks everywhere else, and an endless game of "Oh God something cold just dripped on the direct top of my head."

Agreed. And Jezebel has covered that travesty numerous times recently, so it's not like they're unaware. Being nice to your model =/= protecting the lives of thousands of your workers. Or even, you know, paying damages to their families after they die in a fire trying to make the shirt your model will wear.

Exactly what I came here to say. Most of the Republicans I know are incredibly generous — they just tend to reserve that generosity for people who they feel have "earned" it, by whatever metric they want to use. I may object to their chosen metrics, but I'd never ever think of average, everyday Repubs as stingy.

Ugh, that's absolutely awful. I can't imagine how upsetting that must be. My two cents are to cut ties for now and be up front about why: it's not that you're "too busy" to talk, it's that you are bothered by their racist behavior and you don't want it in your life. If you don't want to completely disown them (and it…

That makes it even worse, considering that I read the "original uncut version." Blergh.

I'm with you in sentiment, but I hope they don't play the "she was female, therefore less dangerous" card. (I bring it up here because you used a gender-neutral "person/someone" everywhere in your post except where it was relevant to how harmless she ought to have appeared.) I don't want them to say, "Well obviously…

I couldn't have written a better review of Stranger in a Strange Land. Hated it with the passion of a thousand fiery suns.

I'd agree. The only substantial differences I can think of in Season 1 are the creation of Roz and a bit more dialogue from Cersei, Robert, Jamie, and Littlefinger than we got in the book (mainly because none of them are POV characters).

Dangit! Harry Potter switcheroo in my head, apparently. Though HP-Krum wasn't bad on the eyes either…

Krum is adorable. He'd totally make you pancakes in bed the next morning, too.

A hundred thousand million percent yes.

I feel like this needs to be on a LARGE poster and every teacher/prof needs to have it displayed prominently in their office so that they can just point to it when the kid's sitting there trying to find a good retort.

Given my copious amounts of Downton Abbey watching, I'm going to hope it predates the South as an upstairs/downstairs kind of thing.

Wow, I wish I could bump this all the way to the top. He needs to major in White Male Privilege. That should absolutely be what the school offers: take on a full course load in Gender Studies and African American Studies or you're expelled. Let them teach him exactly what he needs to learn.

(…sorry, not trying to be a jerk, but 19/96 is just under 20%, not over!)

Publishers do, too. There are often a handful of typos in any printed work specifically for that reason. (Either that or my editor friend lied to me so I'd think better of her publishing house. We'll never know.)