unnecessary dig at mentally unwell folks tho

Happy to see your conclusion. It didn’t seem like you were ever going to get it, but you did.

Sorry! I’m just realizing now that the phrase is  more “normal” because of academia and grad school and being surrounded by lit and language people and going to conferences etc. constitutes most of my chit chat. Almost no one is from the location you’re speaking to one another in and you’re desperate to make small…

My husband was born in Pakistan but grew up from infancy in Indiana. He’s now a doctor and gets this question all. the. time. from his older patients. When he gets to that second “no, but where are you from.......,” he always doubles down on “I’m from Indiana” in an increasingly deadpan and serious tone until shit…

Yeah but it gets really really frustrating to be asked this over and over again. Especially when your answer isn’t always accepted. And its even more frustrating because its something you don’t see white people being asked.

(prefacing this with the experience I’m going to relate now is merely annoying and not in any way oppressive)

Lol. I’m basically shilling for Jenny Trout on this thread now. But seriously, if you haven’t, read all of her recaps of the book: http://jennytrout.com/?p=3208 Cause she talks about this. We all know Ana is a 90s Mary Sue. But never more so than when she’s refusing to eat and Christian is telling her she needs to eat…

Can we please stop saying that men like Elliot Rodger “love” women? They love women like I love cheeseburgers. I think the correct word is WANT.

Canada would exist without the US. Don’t lump yourself in with the UK. Canada was first ‘discovered’ by the vikings, then France and the UK. Slow your roll. I don’t know what hand you think the US had in the evolution of Canada but you would be wrong. Just as you are wrong that the US is great. It’s a shit hole…

You really are completely 100% certifiably embarrassingly ignorant if you can base that “the U.S is the greatest country in the world’ from a discussion on a bunch of online forums. This is Trump voter stupidity territory going on right here and the rose colored glasses you must be wearing all the time in believing…

You’re bad at thinking.

“And Jesus said unto Lazarus - ‘Lol, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, loser’, and lo, Lazarus started to rot.”

No. No, there are not. As a German historian who’s actually worked with said documents in Germany, you are repeating bullshit narratives based on extremely flighty scholarship. Please stop.

Great job whichever approved Splinter commenter keeps approving the racist screed Domino Siloto has posted in multiple threads.

They didn’t give themselves those names though. A magazine called Top of the Pops did. The only one who changed their original moniker was Ginger, who resisted being called “Sexy Spice”.

Another comment she dismissed:

Thanks. People like Moral Dictata need to get off their high horse already.

I don’t even care that he’s a man as much as that he’s a humorless shit-stirrer who thinks being asexual makes him King Queer and somehow obviates the assorted effects of him being a white cis recent-uni-grad.

Original comment this person dismissed:

He’s also dismissing women who disagree with him. Remind me why we let a man take up so much room in what is supposed to be a female space?