Again, you are missing the numerous reasons why a victim of abuse might very reasonably feel compelled to go back to their abuser, most obviously including the fact that restraining orders are not magical force fields that keep abusers away. You really think her abuser did not threaten her while she was gone? You…

You seem to be ignoring the part where the abusive sack of shit explicitly and unambiguously threatened to murder the kids if she ever left him or took action against him, and that she had no reason whatsoever to believe he wasn’t fully capable of doing so (not to mention the part where if you somehow believe filing…

This, so much. Sondheim does not write music for amateurs. I am fine with casting movie stars without a Broadway background for Mamma Mia and shows like that where the point is pretty much just “this is fun, fluffy entertainment,” but not shows where the point also very much includes “this is musically and lyrically…

I think this really is a “why not both?” situation. He was always a complete moron who thought he was a genius and surrounded himself with people who would tell him so. He also genuinely appears to be even less capable of understanding simple concepts, remembering basic facts, or thinking before he speaks (or thinking…

No. That is, in fact, one of the only reasons they could not kick him out. Dinosaurs and Nachos had the right idea, but didn’t quite explain things clearly - doriancOcOcO came closer with the simplified “you can kick someone out because of what they DO; you cannot kick someone out because of what they ARE.” When we…

I really hate that social media algorithms are so determined to make sure you see everyone else’s happy things, since it’s obviously not terribly uncommon for someone to have very good reasons why they don’t really want to look at everyone else’s happy Mother’s/Father’s Day pictures, happy pregnancy/baby pictures,…

True! It’s a shame that for the average person, anything that looks like a “wedding gown” (i.e. not just a fancy prom dress or something, but things with trains, voluminous skirts, veils, lace, general ball-gown-ness, etc.) but is NOT some variation on white is seen as enough of a niche product that it’s likely to be…

I mean...I’m about the same age as you, my friends and I have been known to do all of those things (I literally have multiple superhero costume pieces in my closet as I type this, along with both a Firefly and a Buffy t-shirt, so yeah), and I find the characters on BBT to be grating stereotypes that don’t seem…

In an alternate universe where I (a) was likely ever to get married, (b) could afford fancy high-end designer gowns, and (c) would magically get to have Fan Bingbing’s body shape and perfect skin for a day, I would TOTALLY get married in that dress. (For that matter, I’d happily forget about tradition in order to get…

Just to add to the photodump of her absurdly pretty red carpet gowns:

Nope! (Or at least I’ve never seen one.) She “wins” basically every red carpet she ever appears on, and I am now coveting the hell out of that blue dress. So pretty!

I think it’s just a weird angle on that particular photo combined with a haircut/color/style that’s similar to how Jennifer Lawrence has styled hers recently. Uma looks like herself to me from other angles.

It is not “unfair” for a man who had already proven himself repeatedly to be a racist, sexist, ableist, Islamophobic, ignorant, idiotic, staggeringly narcissistic pathological liar who sexually assaults women not to get his personal slate magically wiped clean on November 9th. He had decades in the public eye in which…

It seems very silly to lump all 2.2 billion Christians together and insist that their beliefs are all terrible, backwards, and unreasonable when it’s very easy to find Christians who are none of those things, but I have a feeling nothing anyone says here is going to change your mind. If you’re determined to hate 2.2…

Whoa. Young Ivanka looks weirdly like young me. Her mouth shape is very different and my face wasn’t nearly as round, but we easily could have passed for sisters. I’m not sure whether to be depressed by the idea of looking like a Trump, comforted by the fact that a Trump went to great lengths not to look anything like…

Just so you know, there are a lot of Christian denominations - including the largest one on Earth - that believe that being a good person is the key to getting into heaven, not belief in Jesus. Generally, their idea is that believing in Jesus and thus having his example to follow makes being a good person easier, but…

Yep. It’s ridiculous. As you said, I’m willing to believe that any given person may have an invisible disability and actually need their seat, but there is no way that every seated person on a given train/bus does. (Actually, I suppose I’m not willing to believe that “any” given person needs their seat, because more…

That still leaves almost 900,000 Clinton voters and almost a million non-Trump voters in Tennessee. I mean, I’d like to imagine that all people who behave like idiots must be Trump supporters, but it seems somewhat more likely that someone who is violently angry about the imminent repeal of Obamacare wasn’t in favor…

I agree that not having to say “I’m disabled, could you please let me sit down?” would be really, really nice, but I’m doubtful about the ability of these pins to make a significant difference - I mentioned in another thread that when I used a cane for years, it was depressingly common for people to pointedly pretend…

I have multiple nasty heath issues (including fibro, so solidarity fistbump there - it’s a bitch of an illness) that made me need a cane for years and now make me use a wheelchair. The wheelchair pretty much makes the decision for me, because approximately zero of my city’s limited public transit system is…