I’m always trying to mirror what a person is saying and reframe that for the “audience.”

“I’m highly educated and stridently feminist and most men don’t like that and most men don’t know how to pull their own weight and create an equitable and healthy relationship.”

You guys are losers for not having kids. Now that that’s out of the way, I can have the craftsman wrench now. That’s how this works, right?

I will never forget the sighs of relief when a crazy fucking nutcase I dated for THREE months proposed to me a few years ago. He did it in public and I was so shocked that I said yes (only to say “oops this was a HUGE MISTAKE” two weeks later) but I was so put off by my best girl friend’s reaction to it. Like instead…

And it really is the luck of the draw! People don’t like admitting it.

You took all of the words right out of my mouth. Well said.

It sounds to me like she does want to talk about it, but wants the people she’s talking with to acknowledge her reality and have the conversation she’s actually trying to have, rather than insisting that she’s wrong and she won’t be alone forever, even though, as she points out, there is no guarantee of that.

Your comment is the elephant in the parlor. The way I see it, we’re born alone, we die alone. Alone is the default mode. It seems like the general pop thinks that Coupled is the default, as though something is somehow wrong if you’re alone for long periods of your life.

The ones that told you to lose weight can go fuck Ted Cruz.

I don’t consider Scientology a religion, since they are very upfront about charging people money for “spiritual” services.

I don’t have any advice, but I like how you’re doing a great job of taking care of yourself. I wanted you to know that I’m really proud of you for that. Great job!

As an art historian, I think it depends on how directly the person’s behavior affected or was involved in the art. There’s also the problem of not wanting to financially support a living artist who is a terrible person. It has its place in the conversation.

Don’t let them give you Zoloft if you’re breastfeeding. Or if you feel like Zoloft might really help, stop breastfeeding. And I really don’t want to get into it here and hope I don’t get pilloried for suggesting this, but I actually know what I’m talking about. Zoloft plus babies shouldn’t go together.

Best real life reference to observe: John Travolta

No, dumbass, you are not woke because you expected a woman to do the work instead of doing it yourself. ;-)

I also loved “The luckiest woman in the world, Oprah’s BFF Gayle King” because where is the lie?

These ladies with the straight-ass lace fronts

This is why you shouldn’t allow shitty people back into the community. They will use their new position to defend other shitty people which in turn gives them a voice in the community to defend even more shitty people. Forgiveness isn’t earned if there’s no show of true remorse and improvement over past behavior. Mel…

Not a fan of that penalty, but the state has the choice, and I certainly wouldn’t argue it..

Have you seen people posting that they are a “Proud Member of the Basket of Deplorables” on Facebook? I just stared at it. I knew the woman I saw it from was a Trump supporter, but that she isn’t even interested in distancing herself from the bigots...?!