Define “men’s issues.”

Exactly. This necklace fills me with inexplicable hostility and I’m not even kinky.

It’s ok. :P I was laughing at myself, not telling you to use different emojis.

I think NYT is covering those stories.

Dammit. That would have been classic.

...Wait, he actually framed a photo of the women’s march, thinking it was his inauguration?

I forgot about how abuse victims have to be good people in order to gain my sympathies. Thanks for correcting me on my feelings, and for reminding me that issues of victimization and collaboration are black and white and that unless the woman is a “blank slate,” she kinda has it coming.

Ha! Yeah, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t work on me either. I have diagnosed anxiety and that’s EXACTLY what my brain would be doing the whole time (not saying you have anxiety, but mine comes with chattering-monkey brain). I also have undiagnosed superiority complex, and I’m pretty sure I’d be too busy scoffing and…

...Also, to this day, communal Muslim prayer remains the most peaceful and lovely religious ritual I’ve ever experienced. You don’t have to be introspective to feel that. Most anyone who’s done it enough times not to feel self-conscious or anxious about getting the movements wrong will say the same thing.

This is going to sound awful and condescending, but... A lot of the converts I met during that time were not particularly introspective. I didn’t get along with them, I felt like we had almost nothing in common. But what we did want/crave was a need for structure. I was homeless and going through a divorce. I’d come…

Or she might be a celebrity with a lot of emotional and addiction issues made much, much worse by the constant spotlight on her, drawn to a religion which promises structure and peace. The Quran is beautiful. The religion is beautiful. I converted during a really, really hard time in my life. It didn’t take because I…

Or she might be a celebrity with a lot of emotional and addiction issues made much, much worse by the constant spotlight on her, drawn to a religion which promises structure and peace. The Quran is beautiful. The religion is beautiful. I converted during a really, really hard time in my life. It didn’t take because I…

Lots of Muslims like to pork. I was once propositioned by a convert I barely knew who was trying to get me to have a threeway with her and her married boyfriend.

Agreed with all but that last sentence. MOST countries would not be calling her a hero for committing this kind of crime. The average person around the world, to the extent that they think about their country at all, is generally patriotic/nationalistic. They would NOT appreciate Manning exposing stuff like this.

YES. Thank you. That scene scared the hell out of me as a kid. He literally backed her into a corner and roared and threw furniture around while she begged him to please stop and finally ran blindly into a blizzard to escape him.

She... she doesn’t? Because I kinda feel like she tolerated his kidnapping her father and leaving him to die in a dungeon pretty well.

A singing teapot literally says that it’s not enough for him to love her, she has to love him back.

Thank you for this.

I just spent 20 minutes watching youtube videos about deadly spiders. That’s been my morning so far. I’m happy to be living in Minnesota, where winter kills off everything before it gets ridiculous enough to kill you.

Agreed. Thanks for saying this.