Jesus, that sounds like a personal nightmare. I fucking hate working for cult like mentality at any office. It’s so creepy, weird, and college stunted. I have to see people for 8 hours. When I am done I am fucking done. I don’t want to have to see you again until whatever time I get in. 

Three things to make note of here:

First and foremost, as others have said: it’s too easy for those of us who’ve never experienced this behavior to armchair quarterback the victim’s response, and wax poetic about how we’d have handled things differently/better. Unless and until you’re in such a situation, you really…

Yeah, it seemed pretty clear to me reading it at 3 am 2ugh a super distracting sprained ankle. It's not that people in poverty think rats are OK, they just think they have to put up with them.

I think what she was going for is that people with money tend to expect their complaints to be heard and dealt with immediately. Whereas people who are already struggling in a shitty system are assuming calling the system is going to get them jack shit.

I’ll be ordering that for sure. This is timely as hell as I was out to dinner with friends tonight and one was telling me about rat-sitting her law partner’s daughter’s pet rats.I find them fascinating!

The argument is that poor people have more pressing things to complain about or don’t think their complaints will be heard or dealt with at all.

Using a little algebra we can determine that this statement has also left us with the argument that “poor people don’t mind rats.” As a one time broke person, I would like to inform you that that is not, in fact, the case.

He cheated because he could. It’s an expression of power and influence. Heidi’s a brilliant, beautiful woman. Jared only did this out of an expression of power and control.

Get a vasectomy or stop fucking women if you hate abortion so much. 

Get a vasectomy or don’t fuck women if you don’t want a kid. Or just do us all a favor and abort yourself now.

Corpses have more bodily autonomy than women under the laws these scumbags would pass.

Remember when Southern Christians were pro-choice? https://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/when-southern-baptists-were-pro-choice/

Nice piece, Caitlin. I need to vent about something, and apologize in advance that your piece is the place.

Damn straight. Women who cannot control their reproduction are not equal, economically or otherwise.

Abortion rights are human rights, full stop.

Plus, there’s always the fear that a man scorned will turn vindictive.

It’s from a cucumber salad recipe Claire posted like a year ago (I’m not a creepy stalker, I googled the quote), and I have no explanation for why THAT EXACT GUY has been saving it up all this time, just in case it came in handy someday.

Cognitive dissonance.

Cram a ham in it, rosebud.

Wow, dude.  She never said any of that, but thanks for pointing out exactly why writing this piece was necessary by being THAT EXACT GUY.