A man with his level of attention to detail, will to wait out any decision he made, and strength of mind, would have made a will or expressed his wishes to somebody when alive. He DIDN’T. I think this is VERY telling.

maybe Prince didn’t have a will because he didn’t care about what happened after he died, or was cool with people using his music after the fact.

I mean...I’d feel the same way. I’ll control my shit while I’m alive thank you, but after I am dead what the fuck does it mean to me? How the hell would I know if my song is…

You have a point. He likes to rile people up and the only thing that gets those kinds of people more pissed off is when the other person just ignores them and doesn't respond.

“I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.”

“Consider her slogan, “Fighting for us.” For many men, this slogan would have to be experienced as emasculating. A woman fighting for them?”

Wilmer Valderamadingdong

Actually, it is the end point. But not the good ending.

You already need a projected date of maternity to qualify for unpaid FMLA time

You kind of already do. For any time off that is unpaid by the employer, an employee has to file for short-term disability and FMLA - all done through the employer. So literally my first day home from the hospital after having our son, my husband went into work to email my employer all of my documents that had been…

I’m leaning more toward Tierney’s side on this one because Scott (clearly) ripped off the graffiti solely to commercialize it and make money off of someone else’s work in the form of a tangible product being sold.

I’m trying so hard to think of what her “initiatives” would be as a first lady and can’t even come up with anything stupid but plausible enough.

Except that’s not often how it’s used. It’s: “I’m offended. You’re hurting me.” End of discussion, as if no differing opinion is tolerated.

That people have a problem with others disagreeing is not new. People are not good at owning a position, and not getting upset when they are debated. This is a symptom of being raised as special snowflakes who are never redirected or allowed to fail. The language is actually the most benign part of the issue, which is…

I had a prof who would mark you down a point if you said or wrote “I think.” Unless you were directly quoting someone, she expected your paper to be made up of your thoughts and she did not need to be told that. You were also allowed one “be” verb per page. She had a private war on lazy writing. She was one of those…

I was waiting for someone to catch me on that :D

Not everyone agrees that it is true that women are oppressed. Or that the Sandy Hook mass shooting happened. Or that evolution is real. Or that climate change is real. Or that minorities are oppressed.

Honestly, the phrase drives me crazy in class discussions. Because it is always from people who aren’t using the material to back up their arguments. They’re just using anecdotal evidence. So many of my classes end up with people just talking about what the feel like things are, without any regard for the hours and…

I agree - often, many of us phrase “I feel that X is” when we means “I think that” or “It’s my opinion that”. It’s a syntax/language thing more than trying to hide or make ourselves invulnerable to rebuttal. We mean the same thing, we mean exactly the same thing as what we’re being accused of avoiding.

But if you’re truly trying to have a discussion, establishing actual viewpoints, bringing in feelings doesn’t actually express ones actual views, but deflects the conversation.

Except when you start every sentence with a phrase that implies it’s an opinion, people deny facts. It’s why you get a ‘everyone is entitled to an opinion’ phenomenon including things like anti-vaxers and evolution deniers.