If I might offer a counterpoint, I’m sure there are at least a fugue good people here sharp enough to understand the tenor of this conversation. So please, continuo!

THANK YOU. Not even a lawyer, and that drives me up the fucking wall. “There was no evidence, just testimony” is like saying, “There was no money, just a stack of $10 bills.” 

The fact that you think “too drunk to consent but otherwise willing” is a phrase that makes sense is a huge problem. If a toddler is “willing” to give you a blow job, that toddler did not consent to sexual activity, because they’re a fucking toddler and they are incapable of consenting. No decent human being says,…

You know, I am not someone who normally wishes physical harm on others.

Yeah, I get uncomfortable with the need to make Ivanka outwardly “ugly” so we can somehow feel better about hating her. She is clearly conventionally physically attractive (in large part because she’s gotten quite a bit of plastic surgery to make her that way). She’s also a piece of shit, while many people who are…

Yup. I’ve been a Broadway nerd since I was very, very young. (And I do mean very, very young - my dad had cassette tapes of a bunch of musicals he’d always play on car rides, and I was very happily singing along with them by the time I was two years old. I think my dad was fairly clever on that front, since other…

To “beg the question” is basically to state something that omits some reasoning or evidence that was needed. So, basically, if I were to say, “The Great Comet should have won more Tonys, because I like pizza,” I am begging the question “What does you liking pizza have to do with how many Tonys The Great Comet should…

It’s pretty much like that across any realm that’s supposedly “women’s work.” Fashion is a “feminine” activity, but high fashion is dominated by men. Cooking? Totally a woman’s job at home, but fancy chefs running acclaimed restaurants are almost all male. Teaching? Totally a girly job, but the highest-paid, most…

This will help:

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 I’m not “whining” about the fact that if the ACA is repealed, there is a significant chance I will fucking die because I’m severely and chronically ill and depend on medical treatment that I can barely afford as it is in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: