What a ridiculously uncharitable reading. She explicitly says she cared about it, but noticed new things about the issues when she was undergoing it herself. This is natural, and exactly why we want all kinds of diversity in our representative bodies. She never refused to sign an airport breastfeeding bill - she just…

The way we keep people off of juries is really weird, I think. The selection for basically people who have no firsthand knowledge of the subject at hand leads to juries that, especially when dealing with subjects where our collective knowledge is based on stereotypes and misinformation like rape and sexual assault,…

Yeah, such an awful show, focusing on a civically-engaged female lead character involved in local politics. What a terrible premise for a show, right?

Two problems with this story (or really one combined major problem):

Why didn’t she simply walk out? Why did she blow him? This is clearly a consensual sexual encounter she later regretted. “I didn’t really want to do it, but I did anyway” is not sexual misconduct.

The work environment being toxic was an intended part of the show. It was never meant to make the audience feel comfortable.

Thank you for your service.

Yeah, she needs to be dignified when talking to the President.

I want to send her an edible arrangement or some muffins

I don’t think its satire. Western males preying on women from ex-Soviet countries following the collapse of the USSR was a pretty noticeable phenomenon. The 90s in Russia were basically lawless and gang-dominated.  

That’s the thing that got me too. They’re clearly not alone. These guys got read by people around the globe who cheered them on and lived vicariously through this. “Oh you forced a child to have sex with you? But that child was hot Russian trash. Naughty naughty, but seriously, guy give me the facts about police…

Thats... unreal. I have truly never read anything that disturbing. Shit like that makes me think “Is this the way men really think??” Which is disturbing in and of itself. Satire or not, words like that shouldn’t exist in print.

Sometimes I feel like couples should have this conversation from the beginning. I am a 100% in the - did you only cheat once? Do you feel horrible? Will it never happen again? Is our relationship otherwise good? - then I do NOT want to know. Once you are told you can’t ever forget about it, even if you forgive, and…

Not sure there is any good way to tell someone you don’t find their kid as fascinating as they do...

LW1: Speaking from LOTS of experience here, anyone who treats your medical emergencies as an opportunity to go full throttle “everything must be about me!” is not your friend. Let her go.

yeahhh... you’re a sex addict and you only slept with one woman 4 years ago? and you forgot about it until now? ummm, sure. I agree with Jane’s advice here for other people (regret it, not going to do it again, blah blah) but I kind of don’t believe him on this one.

So nothing else happened for 4 years, and then this person enters SAA all of a sudden? Am I missing something here?

I was waiting in line to vote for the first time in 2008 for President Obama, which I was pretty excited about. Where I was living at the time holds their voting at the assisted living building in the neighborhood. I always thought it was nice that they didn’t make the seniors have to travel anywhere to vote. So, I…

I’ve quickly learned (from Captain Awkward: go there right now if you’ve never been, I have grown so much as a person and a “bitch) that having a “script” of responses takes a lot of the pressure off. Next time potential FIL says something racist, look him in the eye, let the silence become just a bit uncomfortable,…

One thing it took me a long time to learn in my 20s was that I don’t even actually WANT to be friends with a lot of people I used to know. They’re fine people, but their lifestyles diverged from mine and it turns out that simply living down the hall from someone for a year in college isn’t enough to sustain a…