UK social worker here. Your comment stigmatises the mentally ill and is factually incorrect. Most cases of so-called witchcraft abuse occur in communities where learning disabilities are poorly understood, and in cultures where common childhood difficulties are heavily moralised, leading to a vicious cycle of abuse…

I don’t agree. That’s the case for some of these but when a religious leader manipulates people into believing there’s a witchcraft problem, that’s a fully different — and preventable — thing.

This needed bold reiteration. Don’t mind me.

Well, he’s just saying out loud what so many men won’t admit out loud.

*types in nuclear launch codes*

Quentin Tarantino is my prime example of liking someone’s work while rejecting their views and critical ability. His attitude toward the valid discussion of race in his films by black critics is deluded and pathetic, but I still think he’s a net positive for the portrayal of women and people of color in film.…

Well said, and I couldn’t agree more. Tarantino has a made a career making derivative - and schlocky - films, particularly his so-called Valentines to the “Blaxploitation” films of the 1970s, but without the heart and wit of the originals. Conveniently, according to him, you can’t accuse him of being racist because…

Wow, just the multiple levels of entitlement at play here is amazing. Filmmaker being “oppressed” by a critic? Cry me a fucking river. The privilege of making and putting out your art goes hand in hand with criticism. Successful artists who whine about critics or the content of the criticism are the worst. Criticism…

According to one of my Grandpa’s favorite jokes, it’s D (this is the closest version I could find with the googles):

Remember, this is the same God who once asked one of is followers to sacrifice his firstborn as a token of commitment to him, only to be like “SIKe, ya good” right when said follower was drawing his knife.

I agree. The parents definitely screwed up— big time. However, the part about the midwife concerned me more. The article doesn’t indicate that she was in any sort of trouble. People use doctors and midwives because they don’t know about medicine, so to have one that seems poorly informed and poorly trained is very…

If you’re putting your God above the life of your child, you *might* be doing religion wrong.

The above leads us to conclude that either

I dislike both coffee and beer. My angelic nature radiates love upon you all.

it’s just all about you, isn’t it?

narcissism +1

I would have a hard time not responding, “did you figure out the answer before or after you gave him the blowjob?”

A friend of mine once came to work after going to the gym that morning and said he was in the locker room getting dressed when a guy stood near him, put one leg up on the locker room bench, and then proceeded to eat a banana. And my friend said to me “do you think he was coming on to me?”

But also, this

What if you make eye contact, then bite down as hard as you can?

If anything, it might reduce her workload, seeing as how she won’t need to “service” him in the innumerable ways he expects on an immediate, daily basis.