I mean, we can have both: the media IS racist when covering his violence and just forgetting about people like Michael Fassbender and Charlie Sheen, sure... but he is also still a practicing violent dipshit while Fassbender had exactly 1 allegation against him, so no wonder people are no longer reporting on it.

I love this letter.

I love TAL. I’m not white, nor am I a liberal. I must be a unique snowflake.

Yes. I have listened to every episode of this, I first heard it when I was 17 oh so many years ago. “Petty Tyrant” is an amazing story, and “The Problem We All Live With” made me physically upset while I was listening to it.

Wow, once a day? Ha, there are days around here where, between his schedule and mine, I feel like we don’t even talk to each other, and he still lives here! I can see how that would damage a relationship; I’ve never had that kind of relationship with my own parents, so I wouldn’t expect once a day from my son.…

Most women learn to see themselves in male characters from the time they start consuming books/movies/TV shows. We don’t really have a choice... well-rounded and interesting female characters are usually the exception rather than the rule. On the other hand, men always seem to have issues seeing themselves in female…

Yeah...I always find it weird how people can complain about how few women there are in Star Wars, how few toys/merchanidse is made of those characters and ISN’T sexist, and then complain when someone says it was “always a boys’ thing.”

Omg dude, so much this. I remember when Jez first reported on his comments a week or so ago there were all these people howling about how he had “Erased women from the fandom.” I mean for fuck sakes. I’ll say it again: I always thought it was clear that he was acknowledging that the franchise hadn’t done much to…

Unpopular opinion time: I was not pissed when he made the first comment. I thought it was pretty clear that he meant that the franchise hadn’t really gone out of its way to invite women in (which is true), not that women are incapable of being fans.

I’d like to say he’s not wrong, but I’d get pounced on even though it’s the truth, so: OH BOY IS HE SO WRONG FOR SAYING THOSE THINGS WHAT AN ASSHOLE OPPRESSOR HE SHOULD NEVER GET WORK AGAIN AND BE A PARIAH FOR EVER AND EVER GRRRRR OUTRAGE!!!!!

No, that’s true. They don’t owe you an Ivy League education. But why is 18 the cutoff? Because that’s the legal age of adulthood? What the hell does that even mean?

If you’re going to have kids, you are obligated to do what you can for them. It stops at 18? People need help. And if you brought a person into the world…

I don’t know how it got to be that kids are supposed to owe their parents for their support. Like, where did that attitude come from? Obviously I’m grateful to my parents for taking care of me and doing what they did, but why would I owe them?

Whether your choose to have kids or you have them by accident, that’s…

I think that sounds like precisely what this is. This girl is 18. Just...don’t take the nice things? Do you think the “we paid for x and she isn’t doing y” started with college money? I have parents like this mom, and I had a breakdown on my 9th birthday because I knew I only had 9 more years before I was an adult to…

All financial ties to my mom got cut three years ago although we still have a shaky relationship. I nearly had a panic attack when going to her house yet this weekend until I talked myself into remembering that if anything bad happened I could just get in my own damn car and drive away.

It sounds like you didn’t have parents who used the nice things they did for you as a manipulative tool to be revoked whenever you failed to behave in exactly the way they wanted, which is super awesome. But for people whose parents offer nice things that are actually a method of control, it doesn’t feel “bratty” to…

This letter writer is giving me strong flavors of my mom. The martyrdom, using money/gifts as control. The question of “should a young adult text their mom back” isn’t really my takeaway here, it’s that a well - adjusted person would not have written this letter.

The thing that really stuck out to me is that she doesn’t know what her daughter’s schedule is or when she is in class, which is really easy info to find out if you are interested in someone’s life. You might even think that an involved mom would want to know what classes her daughter was taking during her first…

Just because it’s semi on topic. My mom called me while I was taking a shower just now and I feel terrible, but I can’t call her back. She is doing something for her mom, so she will bitch about that and I am mid trying to control a panic attack. I can barely handle my mom bitching about her mom when I am feeling…

Yikes. I hope my family members never puts me in a position where I have to make that kind of decision. On one hand, it’s the rape of a child, on the other, it’s your own flesh and blood. I would be conflicted. Hope the child involved in this will be ok.

I was just at a PP last week (I was just finishing up about this time and heading out to grab some lunch), so this feels especially scary for me to think about. Different location, obviously, but the people were wonderful, they made me feel comfortable and safe, and I couldn’t imagine them being caught in the middle…