The ones that can definitely should, though.

I think an unprompted public apology is WORSE than no apology. But like I said, a non-public one would have been nice, yes.

ETA: His apologies would ring truer if he hadn’t waited until the stories came out to offer them.

Make casseroles and give them to all your friends?

You’ve got a freezer too, though, right? You can do it! Just think—turkey and stuffing sandwiches, turkey noodle soup, turkey chili, turkey cranberry brie melts, turkey pot pie, turkey salad over greens, turkey corn chowder ...

Good lord, you need CONVINCING on that? The leftovers are worth it, I promise.

Do you honestly think your mother would be *hurt* to know you don’t believe in Santa Claus, as a 39-year-old?

That’s cruel, jesus.

Ask your parents what THEY want from Santa instead?

This is, to me, unquestionably the most fucked-up aspect of the Santa myth. Santa’s supposed to give presents to good kids. Rich kids must be better, more well-behaved, more deserving than poor kids, then, right? Such horseshit.

I’m not sure I EVER believed in Santa. I think as soon as I was old enough to understand the concept of Santa, I was also old enough to have snooped in every closet and cupboard and found all of the presents weeks before Christmas. Mythology is not all that hard for kids to understand (magic, dragons, unicorns,…

The fact that workplace relationships exist is completely irrelevant to the question of whether it’s okay to sexually proposition a coworker. And I think you’re being willfully obtuse about it because you enjoy trolling, and because you want to reserve the right to defend harassers and sexual predators because, at…

I think we have every reason to think that FreakOnaut is NOT one of the “well-behaving folk,” based on how hard he’s finding it to understand that it’s not okay to proposition your coworkers.

YES.

A woman just asked to watch me participate in said activity this week.

Sometimes women bluntly proposition me (And then apologize profusely when I respond in befuddlement). Some times I bluntly proposition them. Some people enjoy being bluntly propositioned. And different people have completely different standards as to what constitutes bluntness. Thus are the many faceted ways of the…

Uh oh, someone’s grouchy! Need a nap? Or maybe it’s just gas?

Completely beside the point, but it’s wary. Women should be wary. Weary (rhymes with eerie) means tired. Wary (rhymes with hairy) means cautious. Leery also means cautious (this may be part of the confusion, since leery is a synonym for wary, but rhymes with weary). This is a pet peeve of mine, and I can’t not mention…

Hah, yep.

The whole reason gamergate was such a big deal was that the basement-dwelling contingent successfully pulled in a much larger contingent of (relatively) normal men to fight their battle. This series of videos explains the dynamic in detail, and is SO worth the watch: