I came down to comments fully expecting the threads to be full of, well, discussion of her threads. I was sorely disappointed. THANK YOU, regularjane, for having your priorities straight.

You're so welcome!

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars—mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination—stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A…

It won't play out well for women, whatever happens. Imagine being a single, unmarried woman in a country with 40 million unmarried men. How dare you remain unwed? It's practically your patriotic duty to take a husband. And because there are so many unmarried men, there will be massive competition for women, including…

I had the same thought. The next time I hear a staunch pro-abortionist say, "I don't want my tax dollars going to abortions," I'm going to ask them how many Apple devices they own. The amount they spend on goods made in China probably far exceeds the actual number of their tax dollars that fund abortions in America.

I've had black men tell me to my face that I have it easier because "you're not a threat to white people"

I agree with you. The roommates have their own body images and actual health to deal with, and the author is right that the LW has no business giving them advice when they haven't asked for help. But there's a completely separate issue when the roommates start talking about the LW's body. She's totally within her…

I worry about being raped myself, but I never worry about my mother, even though she lives alone and loves to walk in the woods alone and travel alone. The thought that she's at risk makes me so much more terrified and furious than I ever have been for myself. I cannot, cannot, cannot imagine her going through…

The Puritans left Westeros because it was a liberal nightmare.

The Donohue-Levitt hypothesis would come as a nasty shock to him, I'm guessing.

Irony almost never sinks in with the American public. It's one of our most charming traits.

Such a good point. And by good I mean "disturbing as all hell."

To quote Erin, laughcry.

We'd have a lot more mouths to feed and no one volunteering to feed them. I think it's terribly irresponsible and short-sighted to bring that many people into the world with no plan to care for them. But if you oppose abortion because you believe in your gut that it's murder, then this forces you to address the…

I'm with you. Not to mention that there's an easy and obvious way to check whether you're "having fun" or raping someone: stop what you're doing and ask, "You've been saying no a lot. Do you really want me to stop, or are you having fun?" The whole "I didn't know" defense shouldn't be permissible if the person didn't…

I was hoping "the UN's survey of 185 countries" would be a link to the UN's survey of 185 countries. I tried Googling "UN survey maternity leave" but it wasn't clear which study is being referenced. Help?

Thanks for the clarification. It really does help to get more detail from people who've studied law; sometimes it can be really impenetrable to the rest of us.

I'm no lawyer, but in one of the most serious situations imaginable — the death of another human being — there's a term for a murder you didn't intend. It's called manslaughter, and by its very definition, it's a crime you can be found guilty of even though you didn't intend for anyone to die.

"I know the jewelry store's door was locked, and I know the alarm went off when I broke the window, and I heard it going off the entire time I was taking the jewelry, but I didn't think they were serious."

A male friend of mine recently started dating again via OKC. It wasn't until after a few dates and talking to a few women in more depth that he began to describe something he called "OkCupid Fatigue Syndrome": women's profiles that were terse and contained a list of "I'm not looking for" statements rather than…