Something tells me this guy is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Yes, probably so. I used to as a Child Sex Crimes investigator and I can’t even count how many times a jury let someone off or hung in a rock solid case because they just couldn’t believe that someone who looked like their grandpa/next door neighbor/buddy could be a “monster.” They look just like us. They don’t have…

And she maintained the Cruz principle of not sending jobs overseas or bringing foreign workers in for jobs Americans don’t want. Way to toe the party line, Heidi!

This was my sig other’s response too, “Wait, what, WOMEN?” I was baffled by the whole story and Mr. Islandofdogs’ response because Ted Cruz seems completely asexual to me. Actually I’m not even sure asexual is right - it’s like I can’t imagine him having any sexual identity or orientation at all.

As a Children’s Librarian in a public library, I have to tell you this is not the case in many libraries. Many library systems have gone to pre-selected collections from distributors like Baker and Taylor. It saves them the salary of a librarian dedicated to collection development, which is a full time job at anything…

You’re welcome. I saw that you were listening to people and I know for me sometimes I have to hear something framed in a different way or even just with slightly different words before it clicks for me.

You asked about changing things, and to me it seems like the easiest place to start is to ask people about their…

As another thing you can do - be alert to how telling/not telling men plays out for women. I don’t tell my boyfriend about each instance I feel fear due to a man’s behavior because it happens so frequently it’s not worth mentioning every time. I tell him when I am literally scared to walk out to my car. I’m in a…

You still aren’t quite parsing the meme right. It’s not referring to over the course of a lifetime. It’s trying to encapsulate one moment. So a guy making a move on a woman, in that moment, his fear for worst case scenario is that he gets rejected. Which sucks. It happens to us all, men and women, as you’ve pointed…