Interesting that you resort to the ad hominem once we actually ARE having an "argument". Because it's easier to mock than to outright say "people don't deserve spaces they feel safe in" or "people who suffer a constant barrage of minor sexist and racist remarks should just shut up about them".

Bummer, man. Really makes me interested in what you did, though.

Curse you for finding the easy self-acceptance I so crave! Curse youuuuuu!

Well, the thing is that you're mocking microaggressions and safe spaces, but I happen to think they're reasonably useful terms for reasonably important phenomena. "Microaggressions" sounds trivial, because each individual instance is trivial but the combined weight of them all isn't, and "safe spaces" are pretty…

In the same way the Democratic Republic of Congo is… one of those.

In fairness, changing what words mean is what cunning and ambitious people do to consolidate power, and it works on the dumb and reactionary, most of whom end up flying a conservative flag.

PIKITIS!

That is not what microaggressions are.

If there is a joke about Ron Swanson, it's that the world is rarely awesome enough to accommodate him.

What he's identifying here is that male and female characters on the show have uncommonly comparable amounts of characterisation, which he finds threatening.

That freakout did happen to me when I couldn't get an erection (edit: for like two months, sigh). I was on medication at the time that unbeknownst to me (and my doctor, in his defence) gave a small percentage of users erectile difficulty. But the girl I was dating thought it was her. And she was particularly insecure…

I love this. I love The AV Club. I love you guys. This is the best.

Getting a dog really does wonders for loneliness. It's really boosted my Tinder matches by about 300%. It's why I did it, really. (It isn't.)

The thing is that telling women their bodies are disgusting is a method of control and possession and in a way a form of violence; finding vaginas gross does not in itself make you misogynistic, but contributing to the voices telling women their bodies are gross is contributing to sexism and a really shitty thing to…

Marshall from HIMYM believes in Bigfoot, and despite my being a straight male, he's the only one of the bunch I'd want to date.

BUT HOW ELSE CAN WE COMMUNICATE TO YOU THAT WE HAVE MUSCLES AND A HUGE DICK?

I don't like myself much, but I'm learning to love myself. Which is more or less how I feel about my dad. (He's not a bad guy, just insufferable.) The love is more important, so it's the one to work on.

My question: how do you find your voice not annoying? I can't listen to it in playback. Which is a problem, because I'm a sometimes actor and singer who's been on radio and recorded singing in an album of duets.

My therapist helped. He described self-esteem as an intrinsic respect and love for yourself, not dependent on your talents, skills, deeds, belongings, or anything else. He says he figured out what self esteem was when he was changing his youngest child's nappy (diaper for you US folks?). The kid was giggling away,…

I'm involved in some very exciting build-up with a girl from Tinder. It's super exciting and we haven't even met yet, and probably won't til the weekend.