Wow. It seems really beyond the grasp of some people and firms to just have a policy of "treat people the same" (and to be self-aware enough not to think you're doing that when actually you're unconsciously discriminating). And of course by "the same" I don't mean "pretend the black lady is neither black nor a lady"…

Didn't seem sarcastic to me. Now the other reply about what exactly he's paying for, yeah, but the original comment...nope, not so much. Just read to me like Proofer thought sincerely that men should still be ordering meals for women as men still pay for them. We can argue all ya want about what was really meant, but…

But the original comment was in the present tense and did not include the word "1950s", making it sound as though he meant men of all eras, including today.

Tellingly, you did not say "1950s" in your original comment.

I do not understand this comment. I do not understand the assumption that men pay for all meals.

BURN! :)

The Knot is useful if you want a fairly traditional wedding with all the usual stuff. Its checklists are completely useless to anyone going with an even slightly off-kilter template or idea, and its tools almost impossible to use if your budget is atypical (it took so long to delete a bunch of useless crap from their…

Two things I enjoyed were Tywin's smile when Oberyn said "you know me better than that" (Tywin's expression seemed to say "thank God, finally someone who is not an idiot") and Danaerys's smile when Missandei translated "you're a man who's hiding your cock up your asshole". You could tell she found it funny, but had to…

I agree that we all have an ingrained moral compass, but I feel that compass is based on societal structures built by social animals in order to have a civilization - we have them because we need them in order to carry out our tendency as a race to be social. Any animal or alien that also had a civilization would need…

And I looked down and I saw that there was only one set of footprints, and I said, "aha, I knew it! We are all alone."

Hey my grandparents' house has the two living rooms, don't you make fun of those.

As an American who lives in an Asian country (Taiwan), I've started the habit too. It's just so much...cleaner. We have a basket of guest slippers and an outside shoe cabinet, and when I visit the USA my family thinks it's really weird that I take off my shoes. And their floors are cold and they don't have guest…

I'm a 1980 Jennifer, and I HATE IT. So a.) don't jump on the bandwagon, b.) don't pick something that'll sound silly and trendy in a few decades, but c.) don't listen to the haters who say "go classic, go popular, you don't want your kid hating you for picking some weird-ass name".

If we were going to have kids, which we're not, I'd want to name a girl Peregrine (a boy could take that name too, I think it was originally a boy name) or a boy Aram (in honor of my Armenian heritage). So PFHFHFHFHFHFHFFHFHFHFH (that's me blowing a raspberry)

Pretty sure the Purple Wedding is coming up next week.

That scene with Sansa and Ser Dontos will be important later. Soon, it shall all make sense.

One big difference between the two is that, yes, the Taiwanese are more outspoken and can be forceful when pushed to it (though they don't like to be, very generally speaking, unless they're old and feel they've earned the right).

Your last long paragraph...sigh. It's the same in Taiwan, although that is starting to slowly change. Taiwan and Japan are similar (in many ways more similar than Taiwan and China - often it feels like Taiwan is Japan But Full Of Chinese Speakers) but one way in which they differ is that PDA is more accepted here, and…

Yep, there's no indication at all what his family's income is.

I thought a whole part of the story was that the parents were very strict, though, which would make me think they were overly attentive. If they were extremely neglectful, then that would be a story that made sense. A very sad story. But if they were so strict and unmoving that she was *scared* of them...?