You misunderstood the context of this quote, I think. Lindy's not saying that trolling doesn't happen, but more that it's not just some random thing that people blurt out like they have some kind of internet-Tourette's. It's not a mindless thing that people just do for the hell of it. It's calculated to try and…

I'm not trying to diminish the idea that babies feel pain as acutely as adults do. However, I think there is something to be said about being able to forget pain. Men I've talked to about their late circumcisions have all told me that they were traumatized by the pain of it, and that it's not something easily…

Ultimately being a woman in this debate, I really have no place to speak about this. If/When I have a son, I'll have to think about it then, and so will potential future spouse, but honestly I'm just not that interested in this debate until that point. Personally, if I do decide to have potential future son cut, I'd…

Don't be vague and general. Circumcisions are best performed, if at all, at an age when they can't be remembered, because the penis is a highly sensitive organ, and the capacity for pain is much greater than, say, a boob job. Not to mention, there ARE health benefits to circumcision. It reduces the rate of infection…

Because most baby boys won't remember the pain of circumcision, whereas toddlers or older boys will. It's exceedingly painful, so I've been told.

So yeah. Glad to have gotten to see some good mental gymnastics here.

By the way, wtf are you talking about a "colonial legacy"? Korea was never a colony of any Western/White country. Nor an state in a Western empire, nor controlled by a Western country. Interventionist legacy would be closer, but even then, intervention was requested and necessary in WWII and the Korean War. They have…

One, I'm not necessarily talking about immigrants, just minorities in general. Expats, unlike immigrants, aren't always permanent residents in Korea. I'm here on a teaching contract, as are my boyfriend and several of my expat friends.

I knew the vampire rights agenda was wrong in trying to appeal to Christian values.

That's because you're not shifting your default paradigms. Obviously it's different. For one, expats are in Korea by choice most of the time. We deliberately put ourselves outside of a majority situation. We elect to be in the minority. But the stigmas are eerily similar. There are some universal white and male…

This is not the only such fake video of foreigners mistreating Korean women. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, because I've definitely read quite a few stories and seen things like this on occasion, but Katie and a lot of the commentariat have gotten so emotionally invested in this poor girl's plight that they're…

I'm not going to tell you, so I can see the depths to which you'll go to try and prove that I am.

One, I did not say it is exactly like. I said there are similarities. Expats are treated with mistrust, with derision. We get dirty looks from old people.

I'm half Korean on my mom's side, American citizen. It's a rough game. I can only imagine how being gyopo or an adoptee would be different, for better or worse.

Gonna go grocery shopping for chicken soup ingredients with the superbly Irish boyfriend. Turn some heads, get some disgusted looks and double takes from old people. Just a day in the life of a paradox.

The stigma against the broader expat community because of the actions of a few people is abhorrent. I hate it so much.

Kindly refrain from labeling the entire expat community as "notoriously dickish". Not that I'll know if you do or not, as I'm about done with all of the gawker websites.

Seriously, this. I met my boyfriend here (he's Irish, and I'm half-Korean) and the LOOKS. You'd think I was dishonoring the country by smiling at him.

I mean, it's like any other group of people. There are bad people and there are great people and there are people who are in between. I'm living in Busan now, and this video is all over the place making news. All of the human beings I hang out with are disgusted by it, but there are some people on the expat forums who…

Going here with the bf for our summer break. HA. Gonna take so many good pictures.