Thanks for the reply. I do remember like 20 years ago when Limbaugh was talking about feminazis... I’m admittedly out of touch for the last decade, and I know I’m probably an outlier on being surprised that this is a thing. I appreciate your thoughts on the difficulties with engagement. I just really didn’t know how…

This is Political Correctness gone wrong.

I kind of wish the talk about how dumb this is and why it’s dumb etc etc would just stop. Sheen is clearly mentally ill and has been for years. That is why he does shit like this and there is no point debating the logic of his poor decisions. He has a responsibility to get himself to a psychiatrist and deal with it,…

Damn, that resonates so strongly with me. I had a series of emotionally/psychologically abusive relationships (not physically- that was a line they knew they couldn’t cross, I think, with me) and it was all about them knowing that I had this strong-woman identity and would do almost anything to protect it. It’s taken…

The answer is in your question (keyword: genetic).

damn, Gwen, those talons are hideous.

Even as an administrator, you don’t get into that field without at least caring about kids at some point

Not really, though. If you want to live permanently in NL you have to learn Dutch. If you’re working for an international company, on a work visa/not sure if you’re staying (and of course are in a higher income bracket than refugees would be, one in which you can for example pay an accountant to do your taxes, etc)…

Umm... the US may not have an official language per se, but you realize that everything in education/administration/etc is in English, right? Like I have no idea what you’re talking about in naming those US cities - all of your documents, menus, etc in Miami and New York will be in English. There are of course…

Hilary’s invested in Hilary. She’s a 1%-er and wants the power of being president. But she’s also invested in maintaining her reputation as a moral person, competent politician and not-a-lunatic, so I’m hoping she won’t do anything too terrible. Trump, on the other hand, I can easily see starting a nuclear war.

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This will be buried way down in the grays, but does anyone know where all this is coming from? As far as I understand there’s nowhere in the US suitable for poppy farming, so it’s got to be Afganistan, or possibly Southeast Asia, right? If the former, why isn’t the government using that as a reason to continue…

Those are amazing images!

Perhaps it’s because a larger proportion of hospital staff are hungover/still impaired/sleep deprived from the night before. That’s my guess.

I’m very sorry about your brother, and I hope it ends up ok for him. If you don’t mind me asking, do you think he had an underlying condition? When I was younger I did psychedelics (primarily LSD) with moderate frequency, and in my totally individual anecdotal experience, the people who were *really* into them and/or…

I’m so sorry if you felt I was denying what happened to you, which is horrendous and not to be minimized. I’m not saying the mean girls thing existed *just* in the movies - I truly do mean _all_ of the questions I posed at the end of my post, and I think it’s quite possible that my experience is aberrant. I got my own…

Replying to myself to add that the Southern expectation that girls/women be ‘sweet’ was definitely at play to some extent. There was a gendered dimension to the niceness.

Dude, I’m an American and I am totally mystified by the whole mean girls/high-school-is-hell trope. It doesn’t reflect my (early 90s) experience at all. I was kind of on the periphery of popularity, like cool enough to be welcomed at parties, but definitely not inner circle - and I never, ever saw any of this nasty…

I feel like this is just to make some cash and she’s not really engaged.

This is gross. Not because porn, but because it speaks to the horrific state of our education system. It should not be normal to need scholarships, or go into huge debt, just to get the basic qualifications for your career. You can go to college in Europe for hella cheap, seriously, if you’re aiming for a degree and…