Or like, call the police while you hide in a closet or something. People are fucking trigger happy.

I just don't get why he even opened the door. I mean look, if I heard someone knocking on my door unexpectedly at 2:30 in the morning, I'd be scared. And since I have no windows around my door, or peephole, I'd have no way of knowing who it was. Which is why, under no circumstances, would I open the door. Grab a…

Actor James Garner of Maverick and The Rockford Files TV series, but probably best known to our generation as Old Duke from The Notebook

There is actual scholarship on this topic. At least when I was in college the consensus was that this practice was introduced to show paternity. Women KNOW they're the parent. Men can never be sure so we introduce societal practices to reassure them — namely giving the offspring the father's name and, oddly enough, it…

any future offspring may well get my last name to prove I can.

Exactly. Calling your name your dad's name is just one more way of saying a woman never is really autonomous. Which is bullshit.

This one really pisses me off too. It's not my dad's name. It's MY name. I've lived with it for 40 years, had to correct people's spellings/pronunciations of it, filled it out on more paperwork than I could dream of remembering.

I remember reading a book set in a matriarchal society where one character commented to a foreigner, "We trace lineage through the mother's side. One can never be certain who the father is." It was a throw-away line, but it's stuck with me for decades.

That being said, I kept my name when I got married because I'm…

Yes! This one pisses me off no end. I was born with my surname; so was my father. So how come it's his name for him, but for me it's somehow still 'his' name?

Ultimately, the act of naming a child after yourself as a woman is an act of preserving your own name. But that name is probably your father's name.

Everyone should do what Latinos do, keep both the parents' last names. I essentially have four names (first one + middle + paternal last name + maiden last name) and it sounds so badass when you say the whole thing out loud.

You're probably not as exhausted as the poor people living under armed rebels who are so desperate that they feel the need to loot plane wreckage.

people of Ukraine are poor, same as in Russia.

"I simply don't have the faculty to assess what would motivate a person to steal shit from plane crash victims" - look, I agree that this is a shitty, shitty thing, but poverty (around 70% of Ukraine lives below the poverty line) and an utter lack of certainty about the future is a pretty obvious reason. The lack of…

"I simply don't have the faculty to assess what would motivate a person to steal shit from plane crash victims" - look, I agree that this is a shitty, shitty thing, but poverty (around 70% of Ukraine lives below the poverty line) and an utter lack of certainty about the future is a pretty obvious reason. The lack of…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but people living in an area controlled by militant rebels are probably not having the easiest time of it, right? I'm honestly speaking with no knowledge of their situation, but you hear "militant rebel takeover" and your first thought is not, "Oh they've probably built schools and hospitals…

if you don't know what would motivate someone to loot a corpse or an airplane full of corpses, you've never been really poor

Cash and credit cards are not valuable items to people who have perished in a devastating plane crash. Their lives were valuable. The focus needs to be on those responsible for stealing those valued lives.

Well, while we're at it, it's Dwyane Wade. And now it's my turn to apologize for being "that" person. ;=)

As someone with Crohn's, I'm really uncomfortable with the way people are saying that she shouldn't be modeling because it's condoning an unhealthy lifestyle. Does the fact that she is someone who lives with an autoimmune disorder automatically mean she is living an "unhealthy lifestyle"? That makes no sense to me,…