The one who clearly heard me say "do not want relationship, desire only sexy attention," and then called me a shallow bitch who doesn't know what I want when it turned out I meant what I said and didn't want to be his girlfriend.

I saw this the other day, and it just makes me hate how ignorant so many people (including some in the commente here) are about the concept of causation. Put this on facebook and see how many morons come out of the woodwork to post about what sorry pieces of shit the mothers are and how they should be ashamed of…

OMG, and obviously the only goal is to "look good," not "be strong" or "be healthy." Women especially are not supposed to be or appear to be strong.

Yes! "Um, bot-tle" "Bot-

I think his definition of "straw man" is "something that is imaginary/fictional," because I don't think he knows/grasps its actual meaning and use.

Thank you so much for this perspective. I wish this valuable resource hadn't become so poisoned because it sounds like it could still help quite a number of people.

I just read his response to this, and Holy Wow. Don't have sex with people you can't stand, or you'll turn into this guy! The "simpleton" deserves his contempt because she made some choices he doesn't agree with that had zilch to do with him (and doesn't answer the question in his response), and it has not occurred…

Please listen to everyone who is advising you not to declaw your cat. You're talking about ten amputations of very sensitive and articulate body parts. Imagine losing all ten of your fingers to the first knuckle and then trying to learn to write again. It's traumatizing for a lot of cats and they never get over it.…

It isn't legal in most developed countries. As usual, the U.S. lags behind. Cats have claws. If you don't want claw marks and damage to your shit, don't get a cat!

FUN FACT: Poison Ivy is more plentiful and more potent now than it was years/decades ago, thanks to rising CO2 levels.

I was just having this same thought. So many great storytellers, writers, and musicians, past and present, are from the South, but the stain of white supremacism—that's what some people latch onto and want to perpetuate? People suck.

That got me too!

Someone explain to me why we can't have actual Boyz II Men, with new awesome songs and harmonies all up in the radio. Or if not those actual boys (II men), then the functional equivalent thereof.

So I saw the other comment before you dismissed it, and I just admire the way that guy incorporated "hairy-legged lesbian hippies" into a comment purporting to be about the mutations of political philosophies.

I want this as a t-shirt! Except maybe I just want that stern feminist's face and the words "Judging Your Tiny Penis" on it. LOL.

What a great comment! The idea of reframing the law enforcement/justice system perspective is critical. I have not encountered the terms "contextual response," and "predominant aggressor" in discussing this topic before, but they fit perfectly.

Something like that certainly wouldn't justify issuing a warrant or searching the house, nor should it, but it does seem that that type of repeated local code violation could justify a visit where you actually see the guy and speak to him, and maybe re-interview the earlier callers/other neighbors. Police tend to be…

RIGHT? There really isn't any good reason why a dispatcher/phone person, when recording those reports/calls, couldn't type in the address to see if there have been other calls about the same place. And isn't "naked people in view of the public" probably a violation of some kind of "lewd conduct" or nuisance type…

My husband's father is a real shit-stain who has spent the past decade or so alienating everyone in the town/community where he lives, to the point that the headmaster at his youngest son's school will no longer even speak to him or his wife. My husband struggled with whether to invite him to our wedding or not. He…

"[P]artly the opposite of SAD"? Meaning, essentially, the default? The state of mind in the absence of SAD? I think that's a very strange way to phrase it.