You CANNOT uphold the claim of these specific claimants without opening the door to OTHER situations that are whole orders of magnitude worse.

If you advertise that you sell “congrats on beating your murder charge” cakes, are perfectly willing to sell “congrats on beating your murder charge” cakes to your customers in general, and then refuse to sell them to certain customers specifically because those customers are members of a particular race, gender,…

Good grief. That is a lot of idiocy to pack into one little tweet. It’s almost impressive how utterly committed everyone on Team Trump is to never, ever, ever admitting fault or that they might be wrong even on the most trivial matters. A normal person who wore that outfit and got made fun of for it would probably…

The person you’re responding to didn’t say, “Anyone who voted for Hillary but didn’t want to can kiss my ass.” He said, “Anyone who tells me that they voted for Hillary but didn’t want to can kiss my ass.” Those two words are key. I don’t give a shit whether or not Clinton was your personal dream candidate, but I join…

Speaking as one of those women who could be consulted, I wholeheartedly wish it were “disconnected from reality” to have little girls actually get violent with each other rather than merely killing-in-scare-quotes each other through social ostracization. It sure would have saved me a lot of beat-downs from other…

Me too! Mine is called “get out of an abusive relationship, get on a whole pile of anti-depressants, and never have had much of a sex drive to begin with.” I have, sadly, not managed to translate not having sex into having more “creative power.” I mostly just have more “not caring enough about looking sexy or whatever…

That’s not true at all. I’m not saying it won’t be somewhat harder, but a three-year gap in your resume is not a universal deal-breaker, by a long shot. Lots of people, both male and female, are unemployed for three years for any of a number of reasons. No hiring manager worth their salt is going to toss an otherwise…

I personally find the term “demisexual” kind of silly, largely because I’d fit most definitions of the term I’ve seen, and I really don’t think I need a special label rather than just being a heterosexual person who has never been at all interested in casual sex, doesn’t masturbate, doesn’t watch porn, and could…

I’m impressed with just how much of millennials’ time is apparently spent killing McDonalds and its products. (I also enjoy the juxtaposition of millennials killing relationships, democracy, the American Dream, etc. with “Now millennials are killing marmalade!”)

An ordinary axe would probably work - after all, “strong dude with an axe” was a pretty common method of execution for hundreds of years. It seems possible that he might have had a fire axe or something on the sub. Or he may have brought a chainsaw or something specifically in order to dismember her, if the murder was…

This. The point isn’t “being a rocket scientist isn’t impressive” but rather “being a rocket scientist isn’t so impressive that it will me want to date you if you don’t have any other positive qualities.”

Uh, Amy Schumer is only the second cousin once removed of a senator, which isn’t really most people’s “definition of privilege.” She is obviously extremely wealthy and privileged, but I have no idea why her saying “I believe women deserve equal pay” or negotiating for higher pay for her own work are bad things because…

Because the epitome of masculine beauty is being a putty-faced orange blob with a dead chinchilla stapled to your head, obviously. Women are supposed to look like Barbie, and men are supposed to look like what would happen if you put Ken in the oven for a few hours and then tried to turn the resulting mass of melted,…

Yeah, I’m kind of baffled (and horrified) by the fact that his personal slippery slope from bad to worse appears to go “homosexuality -> raping children -> having multiple fully informed and consenting romantic partners -> having a thing for feet or silk underpants or sexy fireman costumes or something.” Comparing…

I have been calling my dog my “soul-puppy” for years. She’s a 16-year-old large dog who’s been dealing with increasing age-related health problems, and I have panic attacks on a near-daily basis lately because I don’t know how to make her immortal and I legitimately don’t know how to live without her. I’ve had other…

Yup. That pissed me off too. From another person, I might extend the benefit of the doubt and assume they were saying she had a beautiful soul or something, but from Trump, it absolutely means “I’d fuck her,” because he thinks that’s the highest compliment he can pay a woman.

That’s fine, and like I said, I don’t have any opinion here except that I think you’re reading “rage” into a comment that can just as easily be interpreted as “the verbal equivalent of rolling one’s eyes” (and frankly looks a lot more like the latter to me). You can totally think that people shouldn’t say “come the…

I have no dog whatsoever in this fight, but if using the words “fuck” and “shit” in an internet comment mean the user is “so mad,” a quick skim through my comments on this site over the last few months suggests that I have been “so mad” about such topics as Shakespeare quotations, pirate-themed weddings, how awesome…

I am somewhat okay with separating the art from the artist if the artist is dead and is therefore no longer profiting in any way from the art. I may or may not personally choose (or be able) to separate it even then, but I acknowledge that that’s at least a different moral calculation.

Hoist with, actually.