Wow, your interpretation of normal human behavior is bizarre. Flirting is fun to do- that’s why people do it. People in relationships will sometimes flirt with people who are not their partner and it doesn’t mean anything, again, because flirting is fun. It is weird to assume that just because someone flirts with you,…

Both men and women ‘test’ each other to some degree to figure out what the person thinks, believes, is about.  Calm down. All women are not out to get you.  We are human beings, as you are.  Not video game conquests or a breed of evil fucking witches. 

Men are a lot less likely to chat with female waitstaff when on first dates. And men are definitely less likely to chat with female passengers on the bus when with their girlfriends. Both of those are recipes for disaster for a man. Women do it more often. And men are more likely to put up with it. If a man does it,…

As a woman I can confidently say that if I’m engaging in a conversation with someone other than my date, it’s simply a conversation. Not all conversations are flirtatious just because they’re between two hetero people. I’ve dated outgoing men, they chat with the bartender and it’s fine, I’m not thrown by men who are…

Women with men feel they can give you a compliment safely, because you will see they are with a man and won’t hit on them. Women alone or with other women who call out compliments (however G-rated) to strange men are risking their compliments being taken as an advance, and an angry response if they turn it down.

I’m a man, and I don’t think I’ve ever experienced these sorts of behaviors from women, nor has any woman I know told me she routinely engages in these sorts of behaviors. Maybe the women I know just missed the meeting where they all agreed to do this shit?

Did you ever consider that first dates are nerve wracking, and for some people, a reaction to nerves is to be overly chatty? It may take a lot to get oneself into the mindset of being a good first date, the outgoing nature and friendliness toward servers and bartenders may just be spillover from an attempt to get…

It’s so fucking satisfying to hear her calling out the hypocrisy and non-evidential citing of wives and daughters in these kinds of statements. 

I wonder if they interviewed Tatum O’Neal for this.  You wanna talk about a messed up child hood.  When she got nominated for an Oscar, and her father didn’t (for Paper Moon) he punched her.  She subsequently went to the Oscars (where she won) alone.  Neither of her parents went.  Ryan O’Neal is such garbage.  

I used to live in Echo Park, and remember when I first heard about Sqirl. Always up for a new breakfast place, all it took was one look at the menu (and pricing) for me to say, No thanks, I’m sticking with Ms. Donuts on Glendale and Montana. 

Presumably if you’re Buddhist, your Jewish friends will understand? I mean telling Buddhists in America that they can’t wear their symbol because it is offensive to Jews for completely independent reasons sounds a lot like placing one religion (classified as white or white passing in the US) above another (generally…

No, it absolutely still is a Buddhist (and other) symbol of spirituality. The West is not the center of the world. 

Ah, I don’t shop there either, but I assumed that since it was a Chinese company selling on the web that they’d have a not insignificant amount of South Asian customers. Google has not cleared this up for me, so I could be wrong. To be honest, as evidenced by the absolutely dumb shit people on this super liberal site…

This is not really a good counterpoint though.

I think it’s specifically been ruined in the West

Thank you! Glad to see there is at least one additional person on this article knows that what we are looking at is not a Nazi swastika. My SO’s mother is a devout Buddhist and you would not believe the amount of times I have had to explain to people that her necklace is not intended to be offensive to anyone, yet no…

I agree with you Chief Queef. I wish the original poster had clarified that in the post though :(

Copying my own comment somewhere else: Asian girl from a Buddhist family chiming in to say that this IS a bad idea, because it (a) is offensive to many in the West and (b) makes my religion into a cute accessory.

I would say that people in certain parts of Asia that have been using it for centuries can still use it (and they are) within their own countries.  But it is forever toxic outside of those places.  While the company here is from China, they should have had the good sense to limit this product to their Asian customers.

They do though.  She’s been using the name longer than they have.  She owns it.