so I gave the “we’re coworkers so we shouldn’t date” to save the work relationship and his male ego.

Then fire the players and replace them with players who won’t kneel during the anthem.

Reading this column gives me some pretty good inside in the way guys think and sometimes it astonishes me how different it is from women (or just from me, #notallwomen, amirite? ;P ). I’m obs talking about #2 and #3 especially. Just 4 months away from a SO is enough to make you consider cheating...? And interpreting…

I don’t know how you over think “I want to be friends and do not want to date you.”

Why shouldn’t she talk about it publicly if she wants? Aren’t people constantly harping on women to report abuse?

i’m an autistic woman and i’ve tried to have this conversation with that particular commenter before—he is very stuck in his mindset and very limited in his ability to imagine other people’s perspectives, and he’s a terrible listener when the speaker/typer is female. these factors don’t bode well to make this guy less…

Finding someone creepy is a great natural defense mechanism against getting murdered. We’re not going to suppress it just because you think we should, for your benefit.

Seriously. I ask guys: if you were at a bar and you saw another guy with a really cool watch, or phone, or t-shirt with one of your interests emblazoned on it ... how would you talk to him? You can do that with a woman you find attractive too!

For a number of years my daughter trained at an elite gym that had produced Olympic and World Champion medal winners in the past and the culture there was beyond toxic as we learned, unfortunately to her detriment. While we knew the sport was butal and frequently painful we tried to stress the concept of being injured…

I can’t stop thinking about McKayla. The way she was so visible, so talented, so beautiful and sassy and fun, all the while in pain and being molested. Her poise and strength and bravery are unbelievable. That she had to be so strong and brave is infuriating.

Problem - What is money? And who are taxpayers?

It might seem like splitting hairs, but using “taxpayer money” instead of “public money” is a dog whistle; it furthers the narrative that whoever pays more in taxes “deserves” a bigger voice in government, when one’s income has much more to do with the environment one was born into.

“ What was the point of the embarrassing dance-off between Cheryl and Veronica? “

Yeah, I was pretty disgusted at that “look at how evil my ex is because she took all the death benefits!” approach (and probably knew Trump would go for it), when the mother was *not* the one who decided who got the death benefits.

The father was complaining that his ex-wife was his son’s beneficiary (which would have been the son’s choice), so she got $10,000 and he got nothing. I can see why a rich man might respond to that sort of weird complaint by offering money. As for the rest, Trump is evil, dishonest, and doesn’t believe in paying…

Yeah, the father is kind of a dick himself. He complained that the soldier’s government life insurance ($100K) was all going to the mother and none to him, but that was the soldier’s decision. He could have named his father as beneficiary (or split the benefit), but chose to name his mom. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be…

Usually I see this post too late to comment, but I am enraged by it every week. My mom’s story would sound exactly like this, that she was a good mom and every external force in the world separated us - it was my dad’s fault, it was the neighbor’s fault who reported her, it was my fault for telling my teacher I didn’t…

I’m an adult now with a good life, but I was a child with a mother like the women in these stories. She was stripped of her parental rights by a Midwestern state in the early 90s. I don’t know how much you all know about the Midwest, but for my home state to decide that a woman was not fit to parent, her behavior had…

Trailer does not test positive for 20-foot tall Sienkewiczian demon bear, but hopefully they’re keeping that in reserve for the film.

The only times I hear “Don’t make a scene” is from a man to a woman, and from a parent to their child. That speaks volumes.