If someone is truly ignorant and truly unaware of how hateful a word that is, then no, I would not think they were racist for using it. But in 2017 America, the group “people who genuinely didn’t know the n-word is hateful” is entirely contained within the group “small children and/or non-Anglophones who have not yet…

Screw you. I’m not “whining” about the fact that if the ACA is repealed, there is a significant chance I will fucking die because I’m severely and chronically ill and depend on medical treatment that I can barely afford as it is in order to stay alive. The immigrants who are having their families ripped apart aren’t…

It is super creepy when teachers or similar authority figures seem to be trying to fit in with the “cool kids.” I had a coach like that in high school - she’d routinely sit in the team bus giggling with the popular girls and gleefully making fun of students (including other members of the team) for being fat or ugly…

This. “Real name” and “legal name” are not actually synonymous. That’s especially true for a lot of trans people, but I definitely know cis people as well who go by a name that is not what is printed on their birth certificate who would absolutely tell you that that was their real name. A good friend of mine has a…

True. Although, as the saying goes, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people, so there probably is SOME idiot out there who supports Sanders while simultaneously wanting to wipe Jewish people off the face of the Earth - I mean, I encountered someone a while back who claimed they…

You know, I actually think that does sound like an interesting artistic idea and one that could have the potential to make a meaningful and respectful statement about the way American society trivializes violence, especially against marginalized people, and uses it as a form of entertainment...but it’s utterly and…

I mean, there probably are some Sanders-supporting Neo-Nazis, because people are weird and often stupid (and Neo-Nazis pretty much have a built-in guarantee of being both weird and stupid), so there are probably a few stupid weirdos out there whose political priorities are something like “1. Legalize pot, 2. Kill all…

I agree, at least as long as we recognize that taking opioids or similar medications does not inherently mean someone is too impaired to drive safely, and that there are also major sources of impairment beyond drugs and alcohol - I’d much rather share the road with someone taking an appropriate dose of prescription…

The girls - who were, as other people have said, teenage girls, not women, who almost certainly did not have any medical training whatsoever and who are incredibly unlikely to have any idea what medical care one should provide to someone whose throat has been slashed - did not run away (let alone “walk away”) AFTER…

There is! Here’s the whole (wonderfully effective) video it comes from:

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…

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: