Yeah - any time a privileged group starts to lose their upper hand, they cry that they’re the ones being discriminated against and persecuted for their “beliefs.”

Frankly, if they want to do that, OK.

Oh, you see, she’s supposed to have the gun on her AT ALL TIMES. Because her ex can’t be expected to control himself and the police can’t be expected to uphold a restraining order.

Did you read the whole article before you posted?

Right... but it’s on a different day! So it doesn’t count. I guess.

She also has her assistant do all the shopping for the obscure ingredients she uses.

You can chop your veggies on Sunday to make things faster... not that I do it; I’m just aware of it as something people do.

Not only that, but you can bet those “healthy, organic, gluten-free” ingredients will be expensive as hell and not available at your local supermarket.

Hah, I know. It wouldn’t really be possible to make this grammatically correct and maintain the prose she was going for, though, so I just focused on clarity.

I love how you’ve just decided you know exactly what happened.

You seem pretty intent on vilifying her.

I used to be an editor... I think this could be significantly improved without overhauling the sentence (because writers are so touchy):

That’s disgusting. I hate people sometimes.

Yeah. I wasn’t a diamond-hater, but I wasn’t dead-set on getting one, either. My fiance did a lot of research on what constitutes a high-quality diamond and cut. He went to a trusted, local jeweler and got something perfect and small because he knew I wouldn’t wear something I thought was gaudy.

I love Vonnegut. I went to University of Iowa and all the references he makes are delightful.

I’m skeptical that someone with a lot of respect for women would use the word “tits” over “breasts.”

Beside the forced marriage, which is abhorrent, he also made the defendant copy passages from the bible.

We did that too!! The rule was basically “whenever someone says something terrible, drink until you feel better.”

Dude’s a straight up, unapologetic misogynist. So what he said sucks, but it’s not out of character for this asshole.

I kind of thought the overall tone was driving towards the “workers’ rights” conclusion? Like men and women should be able to take leave without fear of EITHER a “ding” to their career OR getting fired. Right?