That is a great position to be in!

That sounds lovely!

What do you both work, I'm curious.

Sorry, I have little understanding for that. Your life will always be a little bit easier because of your looks so stop complaining and work hard to make it not matter. I learned early on that I will always have to work harder and be better than everybody else and play by the rules because I'm not an attractive…

Yes, I understood that as 'let's keep conventionally attractive women illiterate sex slaves' he could have added something about how learning to read and write would harm her reproductive organs. We've heard it all before.

were you never in danger of losing your job over that?

Exactly. If you are from a certain educated socio-economic background then sure. I live in Europe and I hear the most homophobic comments in public transportation by kids/youth with Muslim immigrant background from a very low socio-economic background. They are extremely aggressive, misogynist, homophobic, ableist in…

Funny, in retrospect my father wishes they had done that too. He is very much against the whole wedding industry thing and connects it to right wing ideologies and narcissism. But fortunately my parents were on the same page when it comes to that. They also refused to wear wedding rings because they associated them…

I understand that people might not care. I mean, I don't 'understand', I will never understand that. But I do believe that there are many people who fundamentally don't care about other people's suffering as long as it isn't them. But there are far more people who actually do care, who shudder when told the individual…

I will never get that. My mother put on a nice blue dress she owned already, my father put on a suit he owned already. They bought a simple bouqet of flowers, went to the courthouse with their two witnesses and to dinner afterward. The week after they called their parents and told them they had gotten married and got…

Yes, we can only beat dangerous infectious diseases as a whole community. So many harmful diseases scientists thought would have been eradicated long ago are making their comeback. But I want people in general to live the healthiest, happiest lives they can which should be the motivation for everyone.

I was an exchange student and traveling the US. The very first person I met in Portland was a very well-to-do conservative young woman who worked in the health care system (I think in admistration for Kaiser's Permanente or something similar) who picked me up from the train station in a fancy car. On the car ride to…

Yes, that comment was very confusing. Come ON, we all know how the clothes and electronical devices and pens we use are made and the food is grown. We ignore it and hate ourselves for it because we don't have the financial means to buy things ethically and it's an entire system based on it but speaking into a camera…

No, I don't get the whole story. Most people don't know things whether it is vocab/concepts/facts etc. If I made a big deal out of every situation like that *I* would soon be the one with the problem.

There is a dismiss function, don't give that dude the satisfaction of having his shit all over this thread.

Not everybody is into mindblowingly naive religiosity and nobody has to like it just because some people are. The lyrics are horrible, the melody is annoying and it wouldn't hurt her to use third person singular correctly.

Thanks. You think you've seen it all until you come across posters rabidly defending the abhorrent human rights violations in Saudi-Arabia. I think this is especially bad for people who know little about S-A and actually believe that person.

This poster is one of the most disgusting people I have come across.

Thanks. This enrages me and that asshole poster defending Saudi-Arabia even more. I just read an interview with a paramedic who spoke out about his experiences in Saudi-Arabia and it makes you speechless. He quit the job and left the country because his job mainly consisted in having to watch women die when he reached…

Ha. All I could think of was 1) the squealing how cute and b) the person feeding them needs to make sure they all get the same amount of watermelon!