Snopes is responsible for getting my inlaws (now EX-inlaws) to stop emailing me all their stupid, mostly republican-god-amerika, shit. I would send a reply not just to them, but to everyone in their chain of stupid. It didn’t take long for them to stop including me.

Amazingly, I have enough ridicule to go around. I can ridicule this because boys are never given this message either. I grew up in an xian house, went to xian schools, so I’m quite familiar with these sexist expectations.

“beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit” isn’t misogynistic enough for you?

Damn

Yeah, this deserves all the criticism it gets. Sorry if it hurts your pride.

My father died about a year and a half ago. He was very religious and I obliged that by arranging a very Southern Baptist funeral for him. There was a preacher, a full blown sermon, and hymns. I’m an atheist, but this was my father, and I respected his wishes.

Does no one see a problem with the government using illegally released data for this?

Ah, the whole, “all rapists are monsters or animals” trope (which also means that women should be able to spot a rapist in a minute, from a mile away). Nope, some of them are the bros in your frat who think they have a right to violate women and that women owe them sex for whatever reason. Putting up those signs show…

Sure, they’re manageable, but it’s still expensive and there’s a level of hassle and discomfort involved. Just having a thyroid condition means I have to take a pill every day, wait to eat, get more expensive blood tests every year or so. There are more doctors visits, often to a specialist. I’ve had to have an…

Then why not force everyone to give body parts to a dying child? Why should a woman be forced to carry a pregnancy that could potentially cause her death, affect her health for the rest of her life or prevent her from carrying a wanted pregnancy later? Women are much more than their uterus.

Yes, I’d like to live in the Star Trek universe. I’d like to never face another serious medical crises again. I’d like to not watch my mother struggle with the affects of her stroke. If I had kids, I’d want them to be healthy. I’d also want to know that they could be independent adult someday. I’m sure any parent of a…

I was thinking the same thing until I got to the part where his family didn’t intervene and calmly unpacked, then ate, the food.

I’m sorry you’re going through that. I’m the only child of older parents. My mom had a serious stroke when I was 35, my dad died when I was 40 (he was 89), and now I’m going to be living with my mom at 42.

My dad’s loud, racist rantings during Obama’s inauguration. Bad enough listening to him in his own home, but we were in a doctor’s waiting room in the South and just weeks after my mom had a severe stroke.

Plus, you’ll be setting yourself up for failure. Your idea of control is a fantasy.

Why have kids if that’s the way you’re going to treat them? Yes, bad things are all too common, but the world is actually a much safer place than it was 50 years ago. It’s much safer overall than for any point of human history. You’ll be doing your kids a huge disservice to raise them in a way that’s frustrating,…

That will mess up your kids in an entirely different way.

You don’t ALLOW your wife to use it!? Is she not an adult as you are? Can she not navigate the world with equal competence? Is she a child to be kept away from cooking elements? Is she allowed to use the stove? the iron? Does she really like it up there on the pedestal?

You don’t ALLOW your wife to use it!? Is she not an adult as you are? Can she not navigate the world with equal…

It’s not that people are against nativity scenes in public. That covers private property—residential, business, churches. However, the government can’t endorse a religion by putting a religious display on pubic (ie, government owned) property. Why is that such a difficult concept for you to grasp?

It’s in a city park, dude.