Transparent was good for its first season, then quickly became unwatchable. Coincidentally, Jill Soloway became progressively more insufferable. This quote betrays just how up her own ass she really is:

So long, Babyjail Nielsen. Hope the crimes against humanity were worth it!

He is kicking out everyone doing his bidding because he isn't getting public praise for their doing his bidding, and he is farrrrrrr too stupid to connect the dots as to why.

Whether it’s pumpkin spice latte, mason jar centerpieces or bridal showers, if someone sincerely enjoys something, I think it’s cynical to dismiss it as “basic”.

Well aren’t you a fun, “cool girl” and not at all weirdly judgmental about a common event that plenty of women who are getting married have.

THIS IS THE BEST ONE!

The only one I recall was “knight under King Arthur.”

It was Friday night and I was pretty drunk in a bar, when a handsome man tried to walk past me. I raised my glass to him and said jokingly: hey, James Bond! He stopped, looked me up and down, walked on and I realized yes, indeed, it was James Bond (Pierce Brosnan).

I once helped The Rock finished a crossword puzzle in an airport lounge long ago. That man takes his crossword puzzles very seriously!

I feel the same way about proposing right after a college graduation. Let women have their accomplishments!

One caveat: I knew a couple that got engaged during a marathon they were running together. They had trained together and were running together at the same pace. I thought it was kind of nice...like symbolic of being a team and being in the tough stuff and the fun stuff together. I think it was a little different…

This has my abuse flags popping all the fuck up. This is a textbook narcissistic thing to do - something “nice” that’s “for” someone else, but executed in a way that absolutely steals focus from her, derails a legitimate accomplishment she’s worked very hard for, all while maintaining this air of plausible deniability…

Every time I hear about a guy proposing during a race or at the finish line, I instantly hate him. Way to make her hard work and accomplishment all about you, dude. Way to not give her a minute to shine in her own spotlight.  You ever notice how seldom a guy will propose at his own race?

I read an article (quite a while back) about this particular behavior. It IS an intensely personal insult to slap a child in the face. It is an attack on the child’s developing sense of self and sense of belonging in the world. If this were to happen in front of me, I think it would be difficult not to intervene.

As a “real” abuse victim (dad punched me on a few occasions and pistol whipped me), your thought pattern is why people think hitting their kids is OK. No one is going to define what they did to their kids as bad. The spanking/beating goal posts moves wildly depending on who you are talking to. I didn’t know a lot of…

When I was growing up, both of my parents were teachers. They were both known for their patience in the classroom.

Eh, “child running out into the street” is the one time I ever spanked one of my kids, and it didn’t impart shit.

I think liberal there was used to indicate that the remarks were particularly surprising because the speakers would be presumably be opposed to corporal punishment. The implication being that corporal punishment is more widely accepted among conservatives, which I’m not sure it is.

My parent’s decision to no longer spank me because I didn’t need it strangely coincided with me superceding them in height, strength, and speed.

Can we spank other people’s kids though? Cause I had this little asshole ram a shopping cart into my leg at the grocery store yesterday and I wanted nothing more than to backhand the little jerk. My leg is all swollen and sore today.