Oh my gosh! Ari comforting the soloist as she cried - I cried, too. And it takes a lot to make me cry. It was just an honest fucking moment.

I’m far too old to have had any opinion of Ariana Grande before this, but she has impressed me enormously. She was poised, emotional, engaged and engaging and she did a fabulous job. What a role model. Really well done. Somewhere Over the Rainbow was outstanding.

I’m old and didn’t know most of the songs, but Ariana impressed the hell out of me for being so present and engaged throughout the entire show. I could see how much it meant to the people in the audience. Lovely, all around. (And I got a kick out of her and Miley singing the sublime “Don’t Dream It’s Over”.)

“Mathers said she meant to send the photo to a friend and had no intentions of “breaking the law” by posting it publicly.”

Every global leader shown would rather be with Hillary too.

I want some brave world leader to react to this yanking by falling full-on into him, knocking him to the pavement and thus delivering a massive concussion (not, obviously, that you could tell the difference afterward). Really get that combover messed up as a direct result of his stupid fucking hand garbage.

Please don’t trigger me by calling him the leader of the free world. Ugh. Ugh.

A) this is kinja and a discussion of personal conflict. Everyone tells personal anecdotes and that was me trying to explain why some people don’t want to “hash it out” when people like you insist we do.

I agree. And I also think it goes in waves.

This. Like, she’s making a whole helluva lot of assumptions about people she doesn’t know, and then keeps doing it. I’m guessing she’s that hellish friend and doesn’t get that she’s this person.

Yeah, I teach high school now and it is really making me scrutinize the whole concept of “saying you’re sorry.”

Nope. There are multiple appropriate ways to handle conflict, not a single “adult” way. Some people will never see eye to eye with one another, and no amount of talking it out is going to fix it. Trying to force the issue is frequently a recipe for more drama, not for reconciliation. So long as said disagreement is…

It sounds like you have some personal issues to work out. Be well.

Yup, she stirred up the drama and now wants credit for trying to be the bigger person and end it. It was a real ham fisted way of trying to publicly mean girl Taylor. I have no horse in this race, but this apears to be a 30 something woman trying to start a middle school lunch room fight.

THIS! No one is owed an explanation, just move on.

You’re assuming all disagreements are worth working out, though.

Cutting someone out of your life is not “being an immature brat” or “holding a grudge forever.” No one is obligated to remain your friend.

when guys try to finger you like they are tenderizing a steak

I’ll never forget the ex-boyfriend who excitedly told me he’d seen an instructional video on the internet where someone had trained away their gag reflex and thought it could work for me. He then proceeded to show me a clip of a woman hooked up to a machine that operated thusly: the more she deep-throated a dildo, the…

This might have happened to me once. Maybe.