"I just can't even fathom the logistics of wrapping up and putting a used tampon in the trash."

I'm a contractor that works in the water and waste water industry. Please heed the advice of this column. Bar screens, the machines that mechanically filter out the non-organic waste are expensive, and prone to frequent breakdowns. It's the first line of defense at the waste water treatment plant and it's usually…

I do not understand why this is absolutely so gross for people. It's just normal to wrap up your tampon and throw it away. I think the floor being covered in poo water from the pipes being clogged by these "horrid" tampons would be much grosser. Though funny enough all this makes me think of is that dude pulling the…

Lentils!

Can you close the bathroom door?

I always used to flush them because the packaging said you could. Then I saw some water utility guys cleaning out the lift station for my street. PILES and PILES of old tampons clogging it up. Aside from the environmental aspect, I'm paying for that shit. And when the lift station clogs, that literal shit ends up in…

Or, viewed another way, the bug is walking around this popcorn planetoid while carrying the Earth on its back.

Ah dear. As always, the socially inept with a tendency to objectify and dehumanise women will flock to these, when what they seriously need is the ability to even know how to talk to a woman first. Who the hell hires someone to message someone else and write their dating profile on their behalf? I agree that they'd be…

Good food, good music, and booze are requirements at every wedding unless you're recovering alcoholics. The rest (flowers, venue, party favors) are pretty negligible. But since you didn't give a fuck about your guests, you probably won't care anyway.

You know, the actual wedding ceremony is totally about the bride and groom, but if you have a reception, hell yeah it should be a place to entertain your guests, have some drinks and a bit of dinner. Cash bar is fine, I think, but that depends on the means of the people holding the wedding. If they're fairly rich,…

Weddings are for your friends/family, not for the bride/groom. No one's stopping you from going to the courthouse and getting hitched in 20 minutes.

I definitely believe it is bad form to complain to the bride and groom - but if I had gone to your wedding, HELL YEAH I would have complained about it to everyone I know afterwards (assuming the lack of booze was not due to someone being in recovery). Guests are expected to show up to a wedding properly attired and…

It's the social obligation that's the problem. My wife and I bent over backwards to make sure people didn't feel obligated to come to the wedding or give us a gift, and I think I had to reassure my friends on a budget five or six times that showing up without a gift was absolutely fine, we get it, we have student…

There are so many comments like, "oh just say no! politely decline!"

Aren't groom 50% responsible for this phenomenon? I know it goes against our cultural expectations that brides are wedding crazy and grooms just show up at the alter, but in several of my friends' weddings the bride wanted to elope and the groom was pushing for a huge wedding. Men like parties too....

I never once said she didn't deserve punishment. I hope she gets what's coming to her.

But we round here call rape as punishment "corrective rape" and it's seen as, you know, dehumanizing, immoral, and makes the rapist and the person arguing FOR the rape look just as bad.

So if you're coming in here going 'YERRRP SHE…

Most men think they would never rape a woman, including many who have, in fact, raped women. Because they think that what they did wasn't rape. Because she came to their room drunk, or because they'd had sex before, etc. They truly don't see it as rape, which is why rape prevention efforts need to focus less on…

You missed one, Rob:

I think the Jaime/Cersei thing is also part of a disturbing pattern. In part of a great comment on an o-deck thread, artiofab puts it absolutely wonderfully: