His exact quote to me was "The flagship subreddits are huge, conscientious, and function on an intellectual meritocracy. Where else do you see that in society? Seriously"

This may not be the place for this, but I really would like to know what other Jezebelers (jezzers?) think of Reddit as a whole. I sort of sanctimoniously condemned the whole system because of instances like r/jailbait and things like this ^, but I got lambasted for my attitude. I was told that "that's like condemning…

Ah makes sense. I just didn't... need to see it? Maybe have it totally off screen? But again, this proves what most people are saying, in that a lot of the crazy sex/violence is often warranted to help the plot/characters.

I'm actually shocked that PETA or someone like them hasn't gotten all up in the grills of HBO over how much horse killing happens (obviously not real, but still) You know what was gratuitous? The Mountain beheading that horse because he sucks at jousting. THAT felt overboard.

oh my god I am so sorry. I had an ex decline coffee with me because of my "overwhelming negative energies" that burdened his progress of becoming a shaman, but that sounds a billion times worse.

Reading this article, the one common thread was that this girl was intoxicated every. single. time. I'm not judging her, but when the author says "she's only had four or five beers in two hours" shouldn't that have been an alarm bell for him that maybe, just maybe, she was going to act a bit weird? Because she was…

I think "he/she is acting crazy" is better than the catch-all "he/she is crazy." But maybe I'm wrong? I really don't think we need to call crazy a slur, I don't think it's quite there

Logical? Decent peeps with brains? I think anti-abortion, only because they seem to oppose the act itself rather than any of the other aspects involved in the debate (birth-control etc)

As someone who suffers from bipolar (Type II wut wut!) I really don't want anyone to look at me with pity, even at my worst. Some compassion and love, but no pity. But I appreciate the sentiments either way.