i have an aunt who i’m sure has talked shit about me and my mom and sister to other family so i feel like she might pull some crap like that were i in that situation. (i am way too much of a basket case to be in a relationship with anyone in the public eye, though, so it would never get that far in the first place!)

No. I just imagine myself selling stories to the press and unwittingly making a fool of myself only to realize, decades later, that I’ve wasted my life.

I don’t have much family but I think of past friends or associates that might have stories. Thankfully few pictures exist since when I was really young and stupid there were no cell phones or even a lot of internet access. That sentence just made me feel ancient.

I know my cousin would, but I’m trying to figure out if my half brother would. He’s not scheming conniver, just an angry Trump supporter who hates me because I posted about Black Lives Matter once. He also once lost his shit and started screaming when I went to the bathroom at our grandmother’s house, because his son…

My god, my mom alone. She’s like Ms. Bennet in the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. Any marriage into royalty/aristocracy would basically be P&P all over again.

Many members of my step-family would sell me out for meth money.

I think my BIL would but like, not in a mean way, just in a “Hey, they offered me money so I figured there was no harm in telling them how much you fart. *shrug*” kind of way. I wouldn’t be mad.

Does anyone else while reading stories about Meghan Markle’s extended family think about which of their own extended family would be selling stories to the press if they were to marry royally?

All I’ve been thinking about lately tbh.

My mother and ex sister in law

In my case, date someone who gets invited to the Met Gala.

The vast majority of my mothers side. My sister and I often marvel about how we turned out so normal. But we’re also afraid we just think we are in comparison to them

Not even extended—it would be my father and his bitch of a wife. His brothers are lovely, and my mom’s family (ratchet as we can be) has some home training. My father is a total narcissistic baby who enables the emotional abuser he married, and neither of them are above trash-talking me in an ill-considered attempt to…

Yepppppp! I have a cousin who loves tabloids and hates other people’s happiness. I actually think this is a situation where most of my family would be publicly well behaved but 99% sure my cousin would be Samantha Markle.

YES. I would never be able to marry into the royal family, my own family is too embarrassing.

Never mind that not all period-havers are women and not all women have periods—but I guess we’re supposed to be grateful to have periods acknowledged at all.

The tone of this is weirdly hostile.

YES! I love Monet!!! She is my favorite to win, spongelife for ever.

Deadspin reflexively takes the oh-so-enlightened position without confronting the logical question it triggers of why have separate women’s sports at all?

Well the fundamental question you have to ask yourself is “what is the purpose of segregating sports by gender”? Initially was to give the opportunity for women to compete at top tier sporting events since it’s pretty obvious that top tier female athletes can’t compete with top tier male athletes in the majority of…