I know it’s a really specific objection, that doesn’t apply to most people, but my field is 95% female, and despite my best efforts, I keep getting older.

It’s like being white in a lot of ways, as Damon points out — the same obligations that men have towards women and making things right, are by and large the same obligations that white people have to people of color.

Culling is easy. If the answer to the question, “Would I drop everything to help this person if they called me at 2am” is “no,” then out they go. Why waste time online being associated with people who aren’t that important to you?

As an emotionally distant Uncle, this sounds like a good idea. I can just throw a 20 in a card and address it to my niece or nephew. Good to go.

Especially since all my nieces and nephews get all sorts of junk from their parents to begin with, that me buying them extra junk sounds awful. So a birthday card with a 20 is…

... here we go again for the 350th time in the last 11 months...

I think i’d just dunk cinnamon-sugar pita chips in it.