NOPE. Lots of dads would publish open letters saying “I am horrified at the criminal behavior of my son. I have no idea where exactly in his upbringing he developed the ability to be sexually aroused by an unconscious person, but any part in that that I have played, I sincerely apologize for. We have had him screened…

There’s a difference between “being on his side” and “being a narcissistic arsonist who just dumped napalm on a fire that was about to go out.”

This is me with every single other parent at daycare. I mostly see these folks when we are dropping off our kids with precious little time to do more than nod hello to each other, yet somehow when I run into these other moms outside of the school, they all know my name, what is up my kid, etc. And I’m left going, “Um.…

I usually make a hand choppy movement at my throat and tilt my head towards my right so they understand that they shouldn’t approach me because I’m with my wife. Then I follow with the little fake phone and mouth “call me”.

At 30 feet I put my right hand up for a fist bump and point at it with my left. The whole way I’m just pointing at it, at about 15 feet I start nodding repeatedly and slightly tilting my head as if to say, “You know what this is about!” and then we bump fists and keep walking.

The very existence of a fictional work about an extremely committed and organized sociopath who happened to be a woman is now going to be used against actual women making claims of abuse.

Two comments on this:

I’m not sure “I believe her” is being judge, jury, and executioner.

I read an interview once with a guy who runs men’s behaviour change programs. He said that without fail they would come in blaming their partner, saying “She just kept pushing my buttons and I lost control of my temper, I couldn’t help it.” And he would ask “So this anger problem that you have, do you ever get really…

That’s line one in the Abuser Enabler’s & Apologist’s Handbook- “Don’t rush to judgement, there are 2 sides to every story”. Next is “you don’t know him like I do, he’s the gentlest person I know”. Then “she put herself in that position and drove him to it”.

My mom tells me all the time that she honestly is never surprised by all my cares about social justice because I've ALWAYS been that way. I was picked on a lot as a kid but it was always because I stood up for other kids and hung out with whoever I wanted to. Not much has changed, TBH.

Yeah, somehow I don’t think Peter King (or that totally real guy at the end of the bar) is sussing out exactly which country someone’s family originated from before selecting a racial slur in the interest of accuracy.

My racist grandmother called black men “nigger men” and apparently when I was 9 she didn’t talk to me for MONTHS because I basically shut her down something to the tune of “that’s racist and we don’t say that word.”

I just...the subject was curly hair, and she was trying to prove she has naturally curly hair. She could have used the same damn picture, and just said, “Here is a picture of me in 1971, dressed as a person in 1971, and as you can see, my hair is curly,” and I never even would have been the wiser. Why did she need to…

Sure it will. It keeps everyone’s attention focused on the transgender aspect of this bill while getting people to overlook that the same bill also forbids cities and counties in NC from enacting higher-than-federal minimum wage laws, or parental leave laws, or basically any other kinds of laws that might make life a…

You implied that the concept of gender identity isn’t something that has a definition. It does. That being said I’m sure you’re on the right side of this argument, and I know it’s others that need convincing (not so much the federal government—they are aware of the concept, they just need to make non-gender-conforming…

I remember, oddly enough, watching Robert Downey Jr.’s interview on Inside the Actor’s Studio several years ago. Lipton was asking about what he was like to work with as an actor on set, and he basically framed his response around the idea that to be unprepared or to waste time quibbling about “not feeling the…

He’a going to lose this and lose this hard, which is what they want. This bathroom bill is just a smoke screen. The really terrible meat of the bill makes raising the minimum wage in the state illegal and strips a ton of LBGT rights away, such as housing protection and medical care.

In his latest special, Patton Oswalt mentions something called “stage health.” It’s basically the phenomenon by which a performer is able to summon enough energy to power through a show, no matter how shitty they’re feeling. I’ve had to step in front of cameras when I was a disgusting, effluvial mess and somehow…

I took a theatre class in college where one of the students blamed a poor performance on him “just not fully feeling the moment and the character,” probably thinking that it would get him bonus points for, I dunno, aspiring to a ~deep connection~ with the material.