but much worse he talks bad about me to our four year old daughter.

Also, “he’s jumped straight to open relationship, which he feels will take pressure off of me” feels like some pretty rank gaslighting. Sounds like in about a year MVP is going to realize that her wonderful boyfriend was kiiiiiiiiiiiiind of a massive asshat.

What is this “Good News” concept that you speak of? Isn’t all news supposed to be horrible and make you throw up in your mouth a little? I read the article but surely I must have had a stroke or something as I feel not nauseated by something I read. Curious, I must be in the throws of hysterics or perhaps my womb has…

What do you know? Turns out electing progressive, intelligent women to high levels of government is good for women and families. Thanks for today’s only good news!

If the problem is capitalism, then how do you explain how racism and sexism exist in forms of government other than capitalism.

I was pretty put off by the tone of response to the first letter too. Yes, she should probably remove herself from the situation for her own mental protection, but saying she’s just involved because she just “loves drama” or “is lonely”? What about maybe she just cares for her friend? Or she’s having PTSD from seeing…

I admit I’m not a fan of Jane Marie personally (not since the reactions to her articles about flying with her daughter or trying to get a neck tattoo), so I’m biased, but I have to agree with you here. This was really not very good advice.

Exactly. Author totally missed the ‘compassion for a friend’ option. Still have to let people make their own mistakes and stay out of it, but yeah, the reason people feel compelled to help another person in a bad situation is called compassion.

“Aggressive positivity” is also a character trait that makes me want to outright strangle the person.

Grammarian Hot Take:

She “became deceased?” Yeah, no. She was shot and killed by the cop.

This seems like one of those ideas that someone pitched to the Mayor as a splashy policy that would generate a lot of “tough love” good publicity, but lord will it have massive amounts of unforeseen (or completely foreseeable from some peoples’ points of view) consequences. For instance; disabled children won’t get a…

I have long thought that Blue Ivy was a nice name unfairly lumped in with terrible celebrity baby names.

If the person who can fire you begins a statement with “I hope you can” 99.9% of the population knows that really means “Do this or you’re fired” and we know this is what Trump meant BECAUSE THEN HE FIRED HIM FOR NOT DOING IT.

When I was a kid my mom used to tell me that she knew she had started getting old when people took the same shit that had been around forever, brought it back, and called it a new name and got a whole new generation excited for it.

Why is it “millennial pink” when I’m pretty sure this is the exact shade of every bathroom that hasn’t been renovated since the 50's?

This isn’t justice for Tamir.

Right? Like... that’s a good thing?

That choice of words is so disturbing. Couldn’t have said something like “We should preserve the privacy and decency of the deceased”