In many places (including my city) cabs are not regulated. Anyone can call their car a cab and start picking up passengers. This woman reasonably expected that she would be safe using this service. Victim blaming here is ridiculous.

Okay, but usually when someone asks "What is it?" they're referring to the subject of the conversation (Chaider), not a separate component (chai). If the customer wants to know about chai, they actually have to articulate that.

What about the "I don't think organic food should be a thing" lady? She was nuts.

Ugh, yes. I really enjoy the site, but I feel like this segment tends to fall into two categories: "I Was Rich/Privileged/Lucky Enough to Not Have to do an Unpleasant Thing*, and Now I will Judge Those Doing the Unpleasant Thing" or, like this one, "I Will Now Complain About a Topic I Don't Actually Understand."

Paleo people don't avoid meat or legumes, you know.

I don't think I've ever been in a restaurant that didn't ask how well done I wanted my burger, unless it was a fast food restaurant, and I don't live in Nebraska. It isn't a weird question. Unless the kid was like, 10 years old, I don't see how "On a grill" could be anything but that fatal mix of arrogance and…

If being given an overcooked burger is cruelty against children, my mother sure has a lot to answer for.

Thinly sliced frozen or precooked beef used to make cheesesteaks.

You know what's really scary—imagine how many people must NOT know that ducks and chickens are different animals to force this restaurant to ask that question.

I like it, but I don't think it's a midwestern thing. I think it's just a lower class version of aioli on fries.

I'd agree with that—the third act definitely felt a bit rushed. I'm hoping the sequel will deal with that though.

More than her third—she has a middle grade series under her full name.

I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE!

That's true. I spent many a lonely night in not-gay gay bars before wising up and going to lesbian poetry readings instead.

Damn, the gay bar that isn't a gay bar sounded super familiar.

Was this Iowa City?

Well, my dad won't eat mayo on his fries because "that's what the French do, and we are not French."

I'm not saying that college investigations should be a replacement for legal proceedings. But legal proceedings can be very slow. Colleges can protect victims by, say, removing a rapist from the victim's classes or giving the victim a different dorm room before the rapist is found guilty.

I think those may have been my parents. I had to trick them into eating Middle Eastern food because they didn't want to "support the terrorists" by consuming a falafel. Now that they've learned they LIKE Middle Eastern food, they justify it with "It's probably mostly Greek, anyway."

I'm sure there is good work being done, but there's a hella lot of failures of the system too (speaking both from the news and from personal experience). It can be an excellent resource, but there's little consistency.