I feel like any behaviour I exhibit, no matter how well-meaning, is fodder for ridicule.

I used to think (and say out of patron hearing) that a lot when I worked customer service. "These people got themselves up in the morning, got dressed, got in the car and drove somewhere, and yet...?!"

*hearty laughter* Most parents. *painful flash-back sobbing*

Pretty sure the Bible has fuck-all to say about lesbians.

I have a few lovely Canadian friends who have been deeply conflicted about this in a way that (as I've mentioned before here on Jez) has disappointed me deeply. Because their conflict is between believing people making credible accusations and stopping liking a guy on the radio.

I just lost SO much respect for a Canada FB friend yesterday with her determination to believe him and then to not-not believe him after the article was posted with the full allegations which I personally found very damning. This isn't a one man's word against one woman situation and it's a completely credible pattern…

Hey, you know what else we know? That he invited them all there in order to murder them.

SO much better than my snark which was "...stop depending on Clairol."

Oh, I'm so sorry. What's the deadline for me to submit my paper on the complete history of childhood and child labor with all exceptions noted so that we can have this conversation without you marking me down for not being in your brain?

Sure, if you had the wherewithal for that. Or you could be working the farm or in the factory if your family couldn't afford a childhood for you.

He sure killed like a "man." And had he lived, he'd have been charged as an adult, guaranteed. Why? Because premeditated mass-murder.

I'm sorry, but fuck that noise. You can make your valid point without policing someone else's word choice. He can be both a sad product of a toxic society AND a creep and he was.

...Turning abortion into a political issue to distract from his divorced status, thereby starting anti-women culture war that seems as if it will never end to basically cover his own ass...

Since there is absolutely no bias operating which has given birth to the current white-men-mostly director situation that has existed forever, I believe you are right that this is the magical solution to the issue! Make no effort at all to balance the inherent hiring bias in the industry by only considering from a…

Someone else needs to brush up on their own reading comprehension. Your somewhat hilarious condescension about my heartlessness is misplaced in this instance.

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How about you don't tone police me or call me stupid by proxy just because I took what you said in a way you didn't intend.

Defending a stalker as not-pathetic just because he has a dick is the mountain you want to die on?

What the actual fuck does that even mean? Oh, art was created so the person's actions were okay? A lot of awful behavior and treatment of others has been perpetrated by artists and that fact that the song/movie/book/painting is nice after the fact doesn't make the assholery okay.

What grand gesture? She sat in a KFC thinking about her life. The fact that people noticed does not make what she did a grand gesture.