All the article does is criticize dumb and offensive costumes, and OP claimed that that was infringing people’s freedoms. If you think criticizing people is infringing on their freedoms, you don’t know how criticism works and don’t respect people’s right to do it. Was that clear enough?

Who’s banning what costumes now? How did you come to the conclusion that this blog has the power to ban costumes? What planet do you live on where you think anyone has the power to ban costumes outside of a dictatorship? Where do you see in this article that the author is advocating for a ban of offensive costumes?…

How on earth is “passing judgment and gatekeeping” different from criticizing? This dumb blog on the internet doesn’t have the power to jail anyone or fire anyone from their jobs or ban any costumes from anywhere. Literally the only power it has is to criticize people, which you oddly find much more upsetting than…

Yet you seem to have no respect for people’s freedom to criticize things they find offensive. It’s curious how many people think “the freedom to offend” also means “the freedom to never hear any criticisms that might hurt one’s feelings” and “the freedom to experience zero consequences for one’s actions”

If you think “the life” and “joy” of Halloween is maximally offensive costumes with absolutely no tolerance for criticism, you’re probably awful.

I’d love to spend a half hour with you and point out all the ways you’re a moron.

I was more of a serial monogamist and was never part of that scene, but I worked on and off in restaurants and bars (not precisely retail food service) and most of my coworkers were hooking up on the regular or otherwise having fluid mostly physical relationships and were doing fine. There were lots of “downgraded…

Lots and lots and lots of people occasionally hook up with exes they’re on good terms with. It’s not remotely rare, nor are friends with benefits arrangements. Maybe you’ve never worked in a restaurant or bar staffed by people in their 20s? Not all people have high drama relationships and breakups and solemn vows to…

Countercounterpoint: There are multiple people on the planet who are interested in or open to sex without a more substantial romantic relationship to go with it. If you are one of those people looking for another one of those people, using your words is a pretty good option.

And this is true of every single occupation in life. From business owner to floor sweeper.

Why not?

Not sure if you were an adult around 9/11, but the TSA went a long way toward making people comfortable flying again. Even if they don’t do the thing that people think they do, their work contributes a lot to the economy. In general, capitalism is too ruthless to have whole fields of unneeded scope. If you look beyond…

The thing I never understood is why all of these “alpha males” gravitate toward strictly hierarchical organizations (military, police, team sports, etc.) where, until they reach the top of the pecking order, most of their work is following direct orders from some other person. The cognitive dissonance between “I’m a…

I’m not sure how scope wouldn’t be a thing to be taken off of someone’s plate. If a manager wants to expand the scope of a project or department, but doesn’t have the time or bandwidth and hires someone to do it, that’d be taking something off their plate. It seems like maybe you don’t like the idea of the job (which…

Eh, you could say that about any job. Every employee of a company is hired because the owner/manager doesn’t have time to do it or figure out how to do it themselves. If a scrum master takes something off the plate of a higher-up, they’ve earned their paycheck, just like anybody else on the payroll.

For every person even surviving on a YouTube channel, there are hundreds trying and failing. Then there are many more that are living off of family money but claiming to be making a living off of social media. It’s hard to even tell because the people who are failing have to make it look like they’re succeeding to ever…

Yeah, I think Beth’s lower bound of 20 is a little much. I can see an intense 15 minute routine being perfectly serviceable.

Any time I ever hear a woman say “I don’t want to lift weights because I don’t want to get bulky” I always say “go ask some dudes about how much effort they’re putting into getting bulky.” You have to put in lots of time with a carefully maintained almost daily lifting routine and diet and supplements and sleep…

I like that all of these are framed in terms of what’s going on in the person experiencing burnout. It’s so tempting to blame burnout on external factors, and, while that blame might be correctly placed, it can leave you unable to do much about it.

Correction: dumbass comments from internet dumbasses are the worst sort of garbage.