I'm your huckleberry. Enjoy my spittle-flecked invective, which you will just have to imagine as I don't actually have the energy to be an asshole (at this time). Imma outsource this job to a dog.

I came very close to putting in a "Christ, I can't fucking wait for the comments on THIS one" paragraph.

The restaurant is stirring up conflict for the sake of trying to be relevant.

Just a gentle reminder to fellow commenters that 100% improvement is not necessary to create improvement of any kind.

A lot of the "Nice Guys" end up becoming feminists. In fact plenty of the "Nice Guys" I know are feminists, they're just complete introverts so they don't say it much. Most of them claim to be nice guys because they've been told they're ugly, fat, awkward, geeky, etc.

Pretty much any guy whose not traditionally…

I give him a pass allowing for emotional and intellectual growth. It's renewable, because he credited that growth to female influence.

As far as clumsily handling the catcalling stuff ... eh, yeah. It could be better, but he's trying, and as of yet, he's not monopolizing the conversation. I'll take it.

Ruling: good…

After a few minutes, I returned to the table. The man ordered a hamburger.

As the resident Paul Bunyan in many of my relationships, please don't do that. It's pretty condescending and infantilizing. I'm on to people who do it, and it makes me feel manipulated, and honestly, rather angry.

You know, I'm amazed by the intensity of the hatred that so many people seem to have for her. I suspect it's a combination of internalized sexism and conflating her with the character she plays. She's a smart, flawed, interesting, famous, young writer who's still learning, and she's also written a lot that really…

I actually read the first sentence that called her an "invalid human" and had a brief moment of distress - oh my gosh, she is an invalid? She is unwell? I had no idea! Is that really an acceptable way of saying that? - before realizing that Kate meant she is not valid, and now I am calmer and in agreement.

Because if a man screws up, its because he screwed up.

That's why I try to limit myself to one glass of wine a day. Cheers!

So much this.

I sort of hate that cherokee is the only tribe people know. As a person who IS Cherokee and Choctaw it gets real old real fast when it becomes a group people cling to as some sort of token or pass. I guess the people of the Cherokee nation are the new black friend you never meet.

this guy suddenly bursts into the room, dramatically waltzes up to us, and demands to know if we'd "seen his assistant."

Nobody puts Baby on the floor.

Karen Milton:

My favorite part of Monday!