I believe by “we,” Futureboy314 meant “people who aren’t complete assholes.” I’m sure some other assholes are impressed with you taking a stand for your right to be an asshole, but “using bigoted slurs is a shitty thing to do” is not exactly a controversial position in the non-asshole community.

Uh...lots of people? My father’s parents always kissed their kids and grandkids on the lips, and most of his siblings do likewise to their kids and grandkids. It’s totally normal for them. Deciding that two people touching lips is inherently romantic or sexual is really pretty arbitrary, so it makes sense that that’s…

Ugghhhhhhhhh my GP’s nurse has done this a couple of times now. I tell her very clearly, “I’m going to get onto the scale backward and not look at it. I don’t want to know my weight, even if it’s good. I have a history of disordered eating and it’s really not healthy for me to know exactly how much I weigh, so please…

The answer to “who wants to sleep with a 31-year-old virgin?” is, basically, two categories of men:

Yeah, what I think of as “normal” father-daughter dances like the kind I went to with my dad as a kid are fine. The one I mostly remember was organized by a bunch of Girl Scout troops in my area and was supposed to be a 50s-style “sock hop.” It was basically a lot of little girls in homemade poodle skirts goofing off…

If I didn’t already think she was a badass after watching her compete (which I very definitely did - I still periodically go to YouTube to re-watch her 2016 Olympic floor routine because that phenomenal first tumbling pass amazes me every time), I sure as hell think she is now.

Storm and Legend are bad, but I have a hard time imagining poor Xtreme not celebrating his or her 18th birthday by immediately legally changing his or her name to something less utterly stupid.

Ditto. Also, I would wear the hell out of the one with the long blue skirt in real life. Almost every fashion show has one dress that I would happily wear even though there are really no occasions in my life where a super fancy dress is appropriate attire, and that’s definitely the winner this time. I don’t care if…

Honestly, it depends on the type and degree of pain, the cause of the pain, the drug in question, the dosage, how often one takes it, and the way any given individual’s body responds to it (much of which we still don’t even fully understand). Pretty much everyone does build up some degree of tolerance to opioids over…

Eh, it’s more complicated than that. I’m a chronic pain patient who would not be able to function without opioid medication. Opioids are a vital and life-saving tool in the medical toolbox, and we do no one any good (and many people a hell of a lot of harm) by ignoring that truth.

Nah to the purging, at least not over this. Those are all Democrats from conservative states whose seats are very much in danger of flipping. Three of the five are up for reelection in 2018. They aren’t actually voting for the Republicans’ bill, they’re voting for keeping their opponents from being able to use…

Is it weird that I actually find this version less revolting?

Please don’t feel like you need to excuse or minimize what he did. I absolutely think what happened to you “counts” as sexual assault, but even if it didn’t, it unambiguously counts as someone deliberately and knowingly deciding that when it came to your body, what you wanted mattered less than what he felt entitled…

101 is only the number of victims who plan to speak in court - more than 150 have come forward. It’s fucking horrifying.

Even if this weren’t absurd bullshit (I particularly love the assertion that New York is a dangerous hellhole, seeing as New York doesn’t even crack the top 50 in the list of US cities by rate of violent crime, making it a significantly safer place to live than such terrifying urban hellholes as Wichita, Anchorage,…

Honestly, I think this article is a little unfair, because it excluded most of her statement:

Thank you. I think the “people close to him MUST have known” argument comes from the same place as “people who get raped MUST have done something to deserve it.” We don’t want to believe that someone we love and trust could be a monster, so we pretend that monsters walk around with flashing signs over their heads…

A boyfriend who’s not a creep isn’t going to get angry - let alone angry enough that you’d be in danger - because someone checked to make sure his girlfriend is okay. There are basically three possible outcomes when you intervene:

Yes, it’s really a bad thing. Because if you’re working a non-traditional job or jobs, you’re fucked. If you’re not able-bodied but can’t sufficiently “prove” that to the government’s satisfaction (which almost anyone who has tried to get on disability can tell you is a huge issue), you’re fucked. If you’re…

I’m not sure why there needs to be “more nuance” here - if something isn’t acceptable in the workplace, it’s not acceptable. And someone arguing that not accepting the unacceptable is “expecting the world to change for your convenience” and “delusional” doesn’t suddenly make more sense when he’s arguing in favor of…