Truth. It’s also incredibly bizarre that he thinks our idea of a good time is to dress in slutty businesswear and sashay into the Kansas Senate Ethics and Elections Committee to testify on ethics and elections bills. Dude, that’s your kinky fantasy, not ours.

The word “alarm” always triggers this music video for me:

I think the complaint is more that they’re getting praised for a specific piece of their work that isn’t actually more difficult than the rest. And when you make it seem like writing women specifically is hard for men, it reinforces the idea that women are fundamentally different and unfathomable to men. So in your…

What. The. Fuck.

I have played this response variant as well — a completely deadpan “Wow, no one has EVER made that joke before, you are SO original, what is it like to be a disruptor in EVERYTHING you do?” It usually gets my point across and they don't get too offended because, well, it really is unoriginal.

When you tell women and minorities that they just have to be “so good they can’t ignore you” and then they ignore you anyway when you’re doing your best, it’s a really great way to make someone feel as if their best is worthless, and it’s their own fault.

Full disclosure: I am not a gun owner. That said, I’ve heard variations of the following arguments:

You got a lot of great responses already; some of them were good advice for me as well, so thanks for asking the question because I learned things! Also, both of those are shitty situations and you’re not to blame for failing to have an immediate response at the ready. We’ve all been there. :/

Jigsaw puzzles? I used them a few years ago when a friend’s father was in his last days. Small talk was hard and no one really felt like having “fun,” so I brought over a half dozen REALLY FUCKING HARD - but still doable - puzzles and we’d sit there for hours without saying more than “Do you see a purple one with wavy…

Last year I had a brief incident in an Argentine airport because I tried to bring boleadoras in my carry-on. You say dangerous throwing rocks, I say shiny souvenirs.

It sounds like he’s already on his way to prioritizing you over G. That needs to be 100% his decision - if you have to push and prod to get him to set boundaries, then they aren’t truly boundaries he wants to set, and that’s going to bite you in the ass. But the good news is that it sounds like he does want to set…

Immediately went to look it up. You’re not the only one who’s pissed - lots of 1-star reviews:

If ever anyone deserved a comeuppance, it’s Simcoe. He’s as hate-watchable as Joffrey or Captain Jack Randall.

Do not return a damn thing. Put it back in the box, shove it under the bed, and regift each item back to the giver next year.

I’m going to echo what others have said: I’m proud of you. Your family has put you in an impossible situation, and it’s unacceptable of them to keep offloading all of their bullshit onto you.

That depends! What kinds of shows do you like an what kind of mood are you in?

Goddamn you, I did not see that twist coming. Ugly cry for sure.

Contemporary life means being hyper-aware and worse off than ever; we are increasingly shut out of the mechanisms of representational democracy and simultaneously being forced to know more and more and more. We know many rape kits are backlogged in all the big cities, how many black teenagers have been shot by the…

Hmm. The way you’re presenting liberals doesn’t ring true to me as someone who identifies (mostly) as liberal. (I’m assuming you’re not a self-identified liberal because of your phrasing in your comment above, but obviously I could be mistaken.)

Thank you for sharing this. I somehow missed the precise details the first time around, aside from the fact that she was sodomized. I hate that this happened, but I’m glad I now know it happened.