Yeah, my mom wasn’t friends with the parents of my friends and that never really had an impact on me. She was a single mom who worked, so I’m sure some of them gave her a hard time, but she had her own friends and her own life and didn’t seem to GAF.

The African Violet process is slang for ending a friendship. It comes from the Captain Awkward advice column here (totally safe for work):

We have a deal! My opinion of Honeyfund has been intensely negatively colored by my experience of a couple of former friends of mine making a hobby of discussing who gave how much to them and how that person should have given more (or given at all). In both cases, I was privy to these discussions because I’d given…

When I went to a destination wedding last year, I bought a cute photo album from the place we went and sent it to the wedding couple with all the pictures I took while I was there. They loved it because of course they didn’t get to see all the things that other people did while they were busy with wedding stuff and it…

My personal rule is one gift per wedding. If you’re getting married, yay for you! And I’ll give you ONE gift. You can get it at the engagement party, or the shower (most likely) or the wedding itself, but you get only one.

BULLSHIT. Fellow Northerner here, and I damn well do care, so speak for yourself.

I stopped sending my nieces money when they stopped thanking me for it. I don’t need a note on engraved stationery, but if you aren’t going to even call or text and say thanks, here’s your card.

I disagree. I hate giving people cash, so I prefer that the couple have a registry AND a Honeyfund if that’s how they’re going to go, so I can at least get them something that is in line with their taste.

I won’t fight you as long I don’t have to hear you bitch about how people didn’t give to your Honeyfund.

In addition to the other comments here about talent, it’s also a matter of the pipeline. If you have women coaching boys in high school and college, if you have women as assistant coaches at all levels, if you have women in a variety of roles as these players are coming up, they’re not going to blink when they get to…

When I saw the title and the creators I figured it was a dialect difference between white and black residents (I’m white). Very few white people in Chicagoland call it “Chi-Town” or “The Chi.”

It’s also the same for Wisconsin. Southern Wisconsin doesn’t give a fuck about Minnesota -- they all hate Illinois.

I have found, personally, that insecure men are the worst offenders. Unable to feel adequate among their peers, they take out that insecurity on people who they see as weaker than they are, often women, or people of color (if they are white).

Yep. I live in an apartment building now, but I still lock and check every door behind me automatically, even when I go to check the mail or take out the trash. I need to know that no one slipped in the open door while I was outside.

Does he think his girlfriend/wife is lying?

I agree with you, but look what happens when we do tell. Remember that street harassment video that came out last year, when the woman recorded all of the harassment she received walking through New York? Remember how many men came out of the woodwork like termites claiming that it must be doctored or fake because…

I went to a pretty rural college near a highway in the southwest. One morning, a male fellow student came to class and told me a story about how he had been roaming around campus at three in the morning, just hanging out and absorbing the peaceful atmosphere. I told him I wished I could do that. Befuddled, he asked…

That’s apparently one of the things that’s on the table for discussion before the next WBC. While everyone likes playing in it, the timing is awkward and some players don’t go and managers grumble because of the impact on spring training. I can see how mid-season would be hard, though, especially if you’ve got a team…

It’s not only about age, though. Players of color take more heat for their celebrations than white players (I’m thinking of a few years ago when Puig was taking shit for things that Trout and Harper did on the regular). Sure, age has a part in it, but don’t kid yourself that people aren’t looking at the latinx players…

I agree. One of the things I like about baseball is that a single terrible game (or even a week or, god forbid, a month) of terrible games doesn’t doom a team. If you can recover, or if you’ve built up enough wins, you can still make the playoffs. I don’t want every game to be “important” and I think increasing…