I don't buy the "people on the internet aren't human so I can say what I want" argument for a minute. He enjoys the thrill of cruelty. It wouldn't be satisfying if there wasn't a real person getting hurt.

YES. I'm not buying this either. I especially doubt that many female narcissists would own up to it, because our society tends to reward confidence and self-congratulatory thinking in men, but not in women.

True narcissists do not believe that they have a problem. If you were to accuse one of being such they would turn it around and accuse YOU of being the narcissist and how dare you be so selfish?? They lie and manipulate and spread poison wherever they go. My mother in law is one so I will share a few short anecdotes.

This is great. There's a small part of me that recognizes, and is a bit uncomfortable with, the double standard here...but that's only a small part. A little while ago, my husband noted to me that he was reluctant to speak up about feminist issues in mixed company because, as a man, there is so much that he doesn't…

Pretty sure that's what George Lucas thought, too, after the success of Star Wars. Instead of being this big 1970s Michael Bay blockbuster directer churning out summer film after summer film, he chose to take care of his children and only do projects that didn't keep him from them for too long. After he made a big…

I've met very few narcissists but they were the most unbelievably terrible people I've ever met.

A similar group is people who talk too much. And by that, I mean people who utterly ignore social cues and dominate conversations, and don't recognize that they are emotional vampires who leech the souls away from everyone around them. Most of them will chipperly say, "I'm a talker!" - without realizing that their…

One often finds them in positions of power or in the performing arts, since they can be the focus of attention and didn't care who they stepped on on the way up.

When you're around a narcissist long enough, the signs start to rise to the surface.

Not buying it. Maybe this works for narcissists who know they're narcissists and do not see a downside in being seen that way. But lots of narcissists know they've got to be selective about when to be really nasty and with whom, in order to maintain a facade of niceness among others. They are very calculating that…

Ok, ok, I get it Tracie. I'm here. You can stop trying to get my attention.

I've been grad-school broke & was reliant on my husband's income for the first few years of our marriage. It all worked out just fine, but, damn, we were broke.

Really? Not taking full responsibility? Even when she explicitly discusses how, when she was on death row, the solitude forced her to take full responsibility for her actions?

I love this. My husband had ulcerative colitis until he got so sick that they had to remove his colon at age 34. His colitis was cured, but it ends up that he had stage 3C colon cancer. He is almost five years out and is doing great. He also, like this man, has an ileostomy bag. He tried a j-pouch reversal, but it…

Yes, it's so terrible that people are more out in the open with their colostomy or ileostomy bag. It's just awful that it helps people like my husband feel a little better about their situation.

People with medical conditions being happy with themselves?

Um, I think it's worth celebrating that he was able to achieve his fitness goals despite having an illness that made it very difficult and that he's able to feel confident in his body despite assholes like you.

My Dad grew up dirt poor and is a vicious negotiator. A few years back, through extensive research and rebates and this and that he got a very sweet deal on a very popular car - a fully loaded Honda Accord, which usually sells itself.

What gets me is all the comments saying it isn't a gendered thing and women need to just learn to negotiate and they NEVER have a problem because they call people on shit. Do people even read the article before wanting to lay the blame women? This was about people flat out lying because of gender and warmth. Even if…