Oh no. No. Please, no. We’re not doing the “voting for Obama means people can’t be racist” thing again, are we?

If she genuinely thinks that a toxic spot on the potato is dangerous, why would she possibly give that meal to you? Wouldn’t she want it destroyed?

If your office is so cold that you’re considering long johns, do you think it might be easier to contact OSHA?

But in this scenario, did you ask beforehand if it has mushrooms? And explain afterward that you were allergic? It sounds like you could have avoided it by following the first step of Abyss’s plan...

She said she was sitting on the arm of a couch next to the chair...that...doesn’t seem flirty to me.

Yup, I started reading them in second grade. I totally assumed that being 12 and 13 would be way more glamorous than it was; these girls had more intense dating lives than I did in my 20s!

I think my life is one permanent “low power mode.”

Or maybe she would have pushed even more legislation through the door without being abusive!

That was my thought, too. If there are no utensils, it can’t be a terribly long flight. I’d just wait and eat it in the airport after.

Wait, what? I agree that calling an adult woman you don’t know “baby” is creepy, but calling your own kids baby is perfectly OK.

And adding insult to injury are all the people defending them, saying, “Look, this is why we can’t rush to judgment!” Unbelievable the lengths folks will go to in order to defend privileged white boys.

I...wasn’t aware that young people were an oppressed group.

Polio is extremely contagious.

Polio is extremely contagious.

I don’t think I’d eat snow...not necessarily because of germs but because it just wouldn’t occur to me. And I guess it does seem a little unappetizing to eat something that was sitting on the ground. Does it taste like anything? What’s the point of eating it?

So...women of color who point out that your attitudes are racist are bitches? Cool.

No, it’s terrible.

Really, we’re going “all lives” with this one? There’s a long, long institutional history of white men using the rape of white women as a justification to destroy black men, as a group.

She did turn to a trusted adult, and she wasn’t believed.

Is there a solution then? It sounds like the only answer is not to fly. (Or, I guess, leave your house?)