I think some of it is the Cosby backlash. Rumors have floated around for years about Leto sexually abusing partners and I think, following his antics during the filming of “Suicide Squad,” they are coloring a lot of the response to him. That, coupled with his transmisogyny, can explain a lot of the vitriol that is…

Maybe it’s just because I disliked “Cruel Intentions” as a flippant, contrary teenager, but I seriously don’t get the need for this show.

This.

I agree with this. I have a five-year-old. I am constantly going back and forth on whether or not to have another child, but when I consider the reasons why, they all have to do with the five-year-old. Namely, how I don’t want her to feel alone, or deal with the burden of caring for me as a geriatric without help. Yet…

There’s always an amount of subjectivity that comes with evaluating how language is used and what it intends. Ages ago now, I read “Cunt.” Prior to that, I could never have imagined a world where the name wouldn’t put my teeth on edge.

No. It’s gendered as hell, but it is less confrontational so it comes across as subtle. The reality is, when someone—aw, hell, a WOMAN—is described as “whip smart,” it’s indicative that she has been well-trained to avoid the blows but still isn’t polished enough to get a male honorific—like wunderkind. So it’s…

Many. personal. struggles.

I dealt with a stalker. The creepiest thing is when they sent an anonymous letter to my then in-laws. It was a few months before I was to get married, and it contained a bunch of forum posts I had made, diary entries from my Xanga...things I had never told them. It was incredibly violating and continued in some form…

Damn, came here to say this.

“Pushed back verbally” could mean that the gun holder said something snarky or threatening first, and the father himself simply told him to knock it off. It in no precludes the possibility of the father attempting to walk away, or the possibility that the gun holder escalated into physical abuse first.

Yes, but it isn’t clear who threw the first punch; just that the dad was winning that part of it. And I’m as big of a critic of the culture of toxic masculinity as the next person, but since we’re talking about men, it can’t be overlooked that the father may very well have been trying to leave only to have taken a…

Jay Mohr being married to Nikki Cox surprises me. Not unlike his doppelgänger, Bradley Whitford, being married to Jane Kaczmarek.

You called Black Lives Matter an organization of violent thugs. The second you hit “publish” after describing them as thugs, a word steeped and coded in micro aggression specific to black people, you made it about race. Sorry being accountable for your words bugs you, bro.

Someone defending their children is not engaging in a fight, but some idiot brandishing a gun definitely is. So, your move.

“EPA budget is 0.2% of the total federal budget”

Climate issues and their environmental ilk have an entire department of the federal government dealing with them, as well as multiple state, regional, and local offices.

Yeah, nowhere did I say it’s fine for kids to kick seats (in fact, the image above shows I said the exact opposite, so have fun with that). I said people need to stop expecting kids to act like perfect little automatons, and that if adults like yourself are going to go out in public spaces not exclusively reserved for…

I’ve never seen anyone allow a kid the ability to just get up and walk around, but I’ve seen plenty of people shoot parents dirty looks for their kids whining for wanting to do that very thing and not being allowed. Damned if you do.

I’ve seen the opposite happen, especially when it involves men. Toxic masculinity has conditioned men to act with machismo in the face of danger. That can’t be overemphasized, especially in a story that involves a damn handgun. My husband isn’t violent at all, but when someone at a park got aggressive about his son…

No, I’m really not wrong on this one. You don’t get to cite the fact you paid for a ticket as proof and then dismiss that the parents paid not only for themselves, but their kids to be there as well.