I can’t figure out what the LW wants to accomplish. Is she afraid for niece’s safety? Does she want the nirce to know her father is awful? I feel like if she’s not going to tell her sister, she shouldn’t tell her niece. Otherwise she’s putting the niece in a very awkward position.

A floor inherently puts a cap on another group. Whether you call it a floor for one group or a cap for another, the math works out exactly the same.

Listen, I appreciate the sentiment here, but parents treat you differently once they have kids and you don’t.
It’s the way of things. Their new family is at the apex of their concerns.
You have a simulacrum of your previous relationship; it’s not lost, entirely, but it will never be what it was.
You can’t have it all.…

I don’t know how old her kids are, but this is sounding like big kid stuff that’s harder to outsource, as opposed to diaper changes and making toddler lunches. I know I have a hard enough time being gone all day at an office job, but in entertainment their schedules can be insane I bet. If I had to guess, last…

Call me crazy here, but cheerleading for rape, regardless of context, sounds really awful.

The fucking guy is an animal, no question. And the victim and her family deserves justice. But could we stop it with the prison rape as a wish fulfillment already?

Well, now, wait a minute. This statement is from the defendant’s attorney, and it’s all sorts of weirdness. The other girls repeatedly hit her in the head and torso. The defensive attorney even used the phrase “consensual” when referring to a fight. No no. That’s not a word you can use for that. Then, he said it was…

LOL, a Jezebel pile-on is kind of an amazing thing, isn’t it? Even on Gawker it isn’t so bad; it’s more no-holds-barred, but people get bored and stop after a while. Here, not so much...

This is what pisses me off. I live in the South, and have no problem with hunting (although I would neeeever) because here deer can be a nuisance population-growth wise and everyone I know that hunts uses the meat. What’s the point here? Killing an “exotic” animal somehow proves what a big dick you have? You know…

Dude, you mean well but you might want to step back from kinja and maybe go breathe some fresh air outside or something. That is some crazy extrapolating and conjecture.

Don’t you think we should wait a bit before we put what may be a family murder on the shoulders of our political opponents?

Dude you have no evidence Republicans had anything to do with this, step back.

Because for some people everything is racist.

First season was AMAZING (when Lucious put Jamal in the garbage, I cannot remember the last time I cried SO HARD for a tv show) and Taraji is my fucking Queen of Life...but its getting ridiculous. This is corny daytime soap opera territory. I just cant. Why do shows with an interesting premise and very very very…

Okay, but look what we’re reduced to here, stretching ourselves to determine whether there is or isn’t something wrong with some stupid ad. If there was a problem we wouldn’t be guessing, we’d know.

Usually I scoff at the notion of overzealous “PC culture” (blech, I don’t even like typing it) running out of control....

I’m going to just repost what I said yesterday over on Gawker’s article. I’ve highlighted the part that any anti-vaxxer reading this should pay close attention to.

So you’re saying this person needs help, but her long time friend should not be the one to help her get it. Right. Ok. I understand what you’re saying, but I just overwhelmingly disagree.

Mental illness is no excuse for being an asshole.

Unfortunately we’re going to have to go through this for each and every disadvantaged group, there will be no ‘one-time’ fix. There’s also the running joke (I hope it’s a joke) that black people can’t be racist, so we have stuff to work on. Just wait until the black community has to be more accepting of gay people. It…