That’s interesting, because I felt compelled to finally click on this just to double-check that she was Most Definitely Not Madeleine Davies.

Heh, I wondered if you might react like that. 😏

Can’t argue with that!

You’re not wrong about that.

Truly, if the internet has given us nothing else, at least it offers validation for the various minor traumas of our collective childhoods.

Yeah, well, no one ever said racism made a lick of sense. I mean, except for racists, but they clearly don’t know what sense is.

That would be a much more responsible narrative, but Shel Silverstein chose to repeatedly punctuate his story with five little words that completely undermine your interpretation, even using them to close out the story:

I agree that it’s entirely possible (though not established well enough to justify his imprisonment); basically, for the sake of argument, I just thought it would be a simpler and more relevant comparison if I took his self-presentation at face value. If Adnan is indeed a manipulative narcissist, then clearly all this…

Okay, it’s true that I did not know anything about a deep, years-long personal relationship or hundreds-maybe-thousands of audio recordings. I admitted that I haven’t listened to the source material because I understand that I don’t have the full picture here, but then again, I don’t feel comfortable listening to it*…

OMG YES THANK YOU SOOOOSOSOSOSOSO MUCH

Ha! Everything about this story – the fact that your dad yelled at you for buying too many books, the fact that you hadn’t even ~discovered~ the library yet – is endearing and hilarious.

HE CAN HIRE HIS OWN TREE-TRIMMERS IF HE DOESN’T LIKE DEPENDING ON HER HARD-EARNED CASH! WHY SHOULD IT BE HER RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE HE’S PROPERLY GROOMED OR THAT HIS HEALTH IS WELL ATTENDED-TO? HE IS NOT A SAPLING AND SHE IS NOT HIS MOTHER!!!

“Barking up the wrong tree,” i.e. lecturing a tree-husband who isn’t right for you to get his act together? Or it could mean, like, humping him so roughly that his bark falls off, and therefore she has ~barked him up.~

YES I LOVE THIS

No one said you can’t still watch the show and enjoy it. The idea that we should just ignore when a really good show (judging by the first episode) has an all-dude writing staff that includes Kurt Metzger is ridiculous. The principle that we cannot publicly criticize any aspect of something we like is not going to…

Sure, he may have “wanted a story told,” but that doesn’t mean he wanted them to turn around and make him the story, let alone dig up all kinds of extraneous private details of his personal history. I haven’t listened to the podcast, but going on some of the other comments, it sounds like they took their curiosity…

The first result on Google Images for “table modesty panel” that includes a person seated at the table is accompanied by a caption containing the following statement:

Part of me really hopes it’s that he was so petrified of the Big Black Incontinence Product Coupon Forgeress, but alas, a medical explanation (Parkinson’s or otherwise) seems more likely.

Just FYI, when a man talks about having to avoid certain situations for fear of ~being accused of~ sexual assault, it makes you sound like a total creep who definitely should avoid those situations because no one wants to be in a vulnerable state with someone who is apparently more concerned about protecting himself…

If what you want is to have sex, you’re not going to go out and rape someone; if you want to rape someone, you won’t be satisfied with consensual sex. They are two different experiences. If it really is just about your sheer desperation to find a wet, warm vessel for your penis and you honestly don’t care about…