I’m a writer, I absolutely love folklore, and I know nothing about Galician folklore. Point me to your most obscure tomes! I can’t promise I’ll ever be an international success, but at least you’ll have one more person who knows how rad your culture is.

Thank you for this. I suspect a fair number of gun owners share this sensibility, but for every one responsible gun owner I hear actually discussing gun ownership in a responsible way, I see 10-20 comments about how guns should have no restrictions at all because gun owners are sooooooo responsible and bad guys will…

It’s definitely a touchy subject. Quite frankly, I’d take away 100% of the guns if I could, and only return them on a case-by-case basis. But there’s no way the US will ever get to that point, so here’s what I want and will push for instead:

I have a lot of love for Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and a lot of the other Disney movies of my childhood. I won’t go into the issue of messaging, but from the perspective of strong female leads who just happen to be princesses, I found this study eye-opening:

Truth. I hated being hit on while I was working retail. To the guys it was just “encountering a woman during the course of the day,” but to me it was “I have to be on the sales floor for the next 2 hours, which means I literally can’t leave this room without getting in trouble with my manager, which means my ability…

I’m 32, a virgin, and all those other things except Godly (atheist).

It’s great that you enjoy reading the comments on Jezebel (really! welcome! have some cake!), but if you are seriously posting a comment with the sequence of words not all men in it, you maaaaaaaaaaay want to read a bit more.

There aren’t many. I like Bridget Jones’s Diary, the relationship between Sidney and Vaughn in Alias, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, half of the relationships on Downton Abbey, etc.

Haha, you are not the first person to advise having a “party” that is “DEFINITELY *******NOT****** a wedding no siree!” in order to save money. No matter what I ultimately do, that’s absolutely going to be part of my strategy.

Yeah, people talk about Trump like he’d be elected in a vacuum. Like, hi, remember when we elected beer-buddy lightweight George W. Bush to the presidency? Remember how people like Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove and Dick Cheney lined up to use him as their puppet? Donald Trump only cares about lording his power over…

That final Deal with it is extra intense in the bold. I like it.

So cool, thanks for sharing!

What in the incredible everloving fuck.

LOL to that last bit. Yeah, I have considered that advantage, um, sacrifice! It all sounds very lovely, and Cuba especially. ¡Felicitaciones!

I had a moment a few years ago when I was at a bachelorette weekend with an incredibly close group of girlfiends. They’re all Christian and the bride was marrying a Muslim man. We got to talking about faith, and she was saying how she didn’t really care, because they’d give the children each parent’s perspective and…

It’s funny: I work with a ton of very smart tech people in the DC area, so I default into thinking that they are “like me” and thus likely to be agnostic or atheist; I’m always shocked to find out that they are in fact religious, and then I have to remind myself that I am in the DC “area”, which means Virginia, which…

You’re my kind of people, fellow English major & science geek. Have you read this quote from Feynmann? It is my favorite:

Thanks so much for starting this thread! I’m way late to the party, but I enjoyed reading everyone’s responses. Here’s my take on it:

That’s a very astute and insightful realization - that your brand of healing and his aren’t necessarily the same. It sounds like you genuinely care for him and you have a good skill set of listening, thinking, and compassion. I’m sure you’ll make the best decisions you possibly can. Good luck to both of you!

Ooh destination wedding. How did people react to that? I have a mixed bag of friends including people who can afford such things and people who can’t; I’d LOVE to get married on a tropical beach, but I worry that people would feel obligated to come and then resentful that they were spending so much money on the event.…