I know "nice-guy-itis" isn't in the DSM, but I'm starting to think it should be.

yeah, soundes like an incurable case of white male privilege.

100% agree. Movies, books, etc. often have plain guys putting the one girl on the pedestal... and then half the time, the guy sees his error and picks the tomboy/unglamorous girl instead, and half the time, he is able to prove himself to the pedestal girl and win her over. But both formulas still enforce the…

Pretty sure "thinks-he's-entitled-to-everything-ism" would qualify as a personality disorder.

Agreed, I wish some people would keep in mind how an animal's quality of life suffers, simply because they can't understand what's happening to them or why they are suffering even if they're "better off." So it makes me happy that this little guy took to it and was rehabilitated!

I'd have named him Sailor Mew.

I was relieved too and very much agree with you. I see some rescues putting thousands upon thousands of dollars that could go into rescuing others in need into "fixing" animals who have very little quality of life even after said "fixes" have been done. Euthanizing isn't the worst fate an animal can have - sometimes a…

Is the smear on Jesus here necessary, really?

And this comic from PHD is good for debunking the whole "why don't we have cure for cancer yet?" canard.

This is where I curse my thin, flat baby-fine hair. Braids don't work unless your hair is marginally thick enough to hold the style!

I love xkcd for basically everything.

Someone make it stop.

Sorry to be off topic but here in the U.K, we've officially decided that everyone in the U.S is cray cray. I mean the Republicans didn't like a law so they shut down the government?? How does that work??

Unengaged people making wedding pinterests seems pathetic to me. I'm going to get slammed by 50 people telling me "It's just good sense and I loooovvve weddings!:))))!" but I'm saying it: It looks pathetic.

Lethe: Hi. Great letter. My partner says, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is superfluous."

A Mormon dude I dated tried to tell me that if someone was attempting to rape a woman, she should just give up and not fight, because at least she probably wouldn't be killed. He also said if he had a gay kid he probably wouldn't love it as much as a non-gay kid. And that's not even to mention the body-shaming I…

"Former women"?

You're throwing a lot of babies out with that bathwater. There are a lot of self-described Christians out there who don't support patriarchy.

My husband was actually more liberal than me when we met (I was young [19ish], was raised Catholic by a woman who was insanely dogmatic and hateful even by Tea Party standards, and I was at the tail end of a neo-conservative phase). When the topics of gay marriage and abortion came up, he gave me the long side-eye…

So-called "purple couples" freak me the fuck out. I'm with DogzillasMama, religion and politics are two things that are absolute dealbreakers for me. I was raised Catholic, and being a lesbian, rational, thinking human being, I pretty much knew in utero that I was also an atheist. Partially because the Catholic…