Going through the same thing right now. My cat isn’t “dying” but he has a variety of problems and is suffering. The other cats are freaked out by seeing him suffer. Yet he still enjoys sitting in the sun, being brushed and being with me. I keep weighing his pleasure in life vs. his problems.

I was surprised not to see “and the party is someone your partner knows” on the list. To me, it’s way worse to be deceived by 2 people than 1, and the odds are way higher you’ll get caught if you cheated on your wife with a woman she knows. I think some people would be okay with not knowing if it was a one-night-stand…

“it never ceases to surprise me how some of the handful of women I work with will take the word of a man over mine, even if he is only marginally familiar with the issue and marginally experienced and educated.”

I knew that TV show was the reason. I get the feeling Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa thinks he’s the only one who can do justice to all of these projects and honestly, that’s an arrogant viewpoint. He should have hired other talent for the show, playing an oversight role, and stuck to the books. They had some great momentum…

I’m adopted and I really flinched when I saw that part. So many stereotypes.

Bustle just had an interesting article about her struggle to get a movie about the Goree Girls made. (Female prisoners who formed a popular band in the 1940's.) For all that people complain actresses should use their starpower to help other women, it looks like doing so is not terribly easy.

Yeah, I think the idea of a big close group of friends is something that just gets less common as people move across states for their career and/or get married. You get older, you have kids or a demanding job (with its own social requirements) and parent/sibling visits, and a partner and... that’s it, your time is…

I’ve run into this too - as well as normally nice guys who would get very sarcastic or critical with me when we were around my friends and colleagues. A total personality switch, to the point where my friends would wonder “Why are you with someone who treats you like that?” But when we were alone or with their…

I’m guessing because there’s a certain group of people who are generally respectful to their “equals” but love bossing around or degrading people they see as their servants - waitstaff, cashiers, people in a customer service position. Waiters get the brunt of it because they know they can’t mouth off to them and that…

Oh god.

Who said that??

The whole “Oh yeah? Why didn’t he harass ME then?” thing is something I’ve seen way too much of. Either directly from someone who feels insulted (“He never hit on me and there’s no way he would have gone for you over me”) or indirectly (“He worked with plenty of women I know and they had no problem with him.”) We have…

Do you remember the story of Macho B? I’m so worried this jaguar will have something awful happen to him.

If you really want to get anxious, look up Macho B - another handsome Arizona jaguar who came to a bad end.

Thank you! I’ve always said that her stupid romantic impulse to get off her lifeboat is what killed him. If she had just stayed put, he’d have found the door and whistle and they would have been reunited on the other ship.

I lived in Boston and NY during the trial but happened to be at a house party in North Carolina when the verdict was read. The difference in assumptions and reactions were SO eye opening. I feel he did do it, but holy shit, the statements that people made just blew my mind.

I’m starting to get chest wrinkles and it’s the shit. I never thought my first wrinkles would be cleavage lines. I’m going on full on Retin-A with them.

I agree with you. The thing is, there ARE a lot of men who end up alone - which also leaves a number of women alone. That’s why we have so many articles talking about men’s quest for beautiful women and women who just want a guy that treats them well. There’s a good number of men who complain women only want rich…

I loved that song when I was little! It was one of my favorites on the soundtrack.

All I know is Frenchie was SO ahead of her time with that pink hair. She was a roller derby pin-up girl waiting to happen.