I’m probably taking this personally, as I just lost 80 year old father at 26, but I’m going to quote my 71 year old mother: having older parents is better than never being born at all.

Totally agree.

My parents were barely old enough to buy booze when I was born, and neither made it to sixty, so, having kids when you’re young is no guarantee you’ll live long enough to meet all your grandkids.

I posted something on Facebook about this. Basically for men who ask this question, there is one rule.

“Most people seem happy to be angry rather than actually give men real rules to live by.”

There’s a scene in “This is the End” where Jonah Hill’s character is anally raped by Satan, portrayed as a huge snarling horned beast with an enormous penis. As Hill’s character is pinned to the bed and the beast begins to penetrate him, the camera comes in close on his face and he says with helplessness and shock,…

Real simple. Difference between I am and I do. As long as you are focusing getting credit or blame for identity, you are delaying action. As long as we are discussing shit, we are delaying action. Jump up and down, get outraged, make hashtags,feel bad, dialogue, raise awareness and all of that bullshit is delaying…

I take comfort knowing we’ll all be able to warm ourselves by the heat of your takes.

I grew up in Atlanta and assure you that unless you are in a far suburb, whites and blacks interact routinely. And blacks are far from some exotic mystery. I’ve heard more vile racial shit in Boston and NYC than Atlanta.

Women are people. They are more than half of the people. Failure to recognize women as people means that more than half of humanity is hobbled, just off the bat. We as a species spend enormous amounts of energy to literally hold ourselves back.

But it’s not just one person, it’s a group of people. Something tells me that a group of successful, independent Black media creatives based in Atlanta aren’t doing this because they crave white validation. It’s totally normal to be skeptical of this, but some people like to do the work of building bridges. No one put…

I think it’s sweet that Nick Jonas’ mom will do his laundry when he’s home. You got to enjoy that shit while you can, that closeness, because you get old and your parents get sick and/or die and all you have left are photos and pie recipes that make your kitchen smell like childhood. TLDR: be careful asking people…

I’m actually ok with workplace relationships - but while at work keep it strictly professional. If you’re not able to do that, then you’re probably not mature/sensible enough to even be in a serious relationship, and your colleagues will rightly hate you.

I’d also add that 1. Someone in Mike Pence’s position (governor, VP, etc.) does need to worry about optics, and words being misinterpreted or skewed and 2. His chief of staff is a woman, so the claims he wants to exclude women are pretty baseless.

It would be nice if the only thing that mattered was the quality of your work. But after 30 years in the corporate world, I can tell you that’s almost never the case.

Agreed. Give everyone a hundred bucks and go home.

Thanks for responding without treating me like some scumbag. I aggree with you that uninvited touching is clearly off-limits, that’s a clear guideline. But it’s not like I follow rules like that to only hold off sexual assault or harassment. I follow those rules primarily because words and actions that can taken the…

The thing is, flirting isn’t even the problem. You shouldn’t be doing it at work, but the way these guys are talking about it is really just trivializing the actual problem. Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Bill O’Reilly - none of these men got in trouble for flirting. They got in trouble for forcing women to watch them…

Since forever, in all of them, because these fields are filled with people and people are social animals.

You clearly didn’t read what I wrote and I don’t understand the anger. Try being kinder to people. Have a good one.