I mean. . . what if they were having a dance party anyways and decided to donate the proceeds to Ebola victims? Is it not better to have a dance party that raises money for a good cause than to just have dance parties that don't help anything at all? I agree that this language was tacky and shitty, but fundraising…

Both of these use pretty tasteless language and one doesn't seem serious about raising money, but I'm not sure what's wrong with raising money through a party. This reminds me of everyone who hated the Ice Bucket challenge because it was too silly and people weren't doing enough research on whether it was the 100%…

OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD THAT IS SO SCARY I AM SO SCARED. AHHHHHHH.

Yeah, what the fuck. I have recently managed to improve my sleep by making sure my room is 100% dark at night, but now that's gonna be a little thrown off because I AM NEVER TURNING A LIGHT OFF EVER AGAIN.

I'm actually pretty interested in this, because I wondered a lot about the evolution of her evil. In the fifth book she's just a general shitty person (Sirius points out to Harry that the world isn't divided into good people and Death Eaters), but then she seems to become an out-and-out Voldemort supporter once he…

Right? It's in the tone that you'd say "oh, well that teenager didn't show the good judgement we expect of him when he stayed out two hours past curfew". Every Federal Prosecutor makes a few silly mistakes, who among us has never harassed an innocent woman when we were middle-aged, fully qualified and in a position of…

What makes you say they're mostly plants? I hear that all the time, but I know people who have had their letters answered, and sometimes one letter will get answered by multiple advice columnists because someone sent it several places. They get lots of letters and it would be more work to write up fake ones, why would…

Yup. It's also kinda interesting that we seem to think that it's more important to protect an old person's feelings than a toddler's. Who takes it personally when a toddler doesn't want to hug them? IT'S A TODDLER.

No, I think hugging children is rape and everyone's Grandma should go to jail.

Ummm, did you miss the part where this article's author, and many other people, were molested as children and didn't realize there was anything wrong with it because they were taught they couldn't say no when an adult touches them? These things are all related and one leads to the other. Obviously Grandma forcing a…

No worries! Clearly just a phrasing issue, sorry for jumping on you. I'm sure there are jerks in this thread who much more deserve it.

Your comment came off as snarky and sarcastic, basically saying "do you think not teaching her to be a normal human is going to affect her future?" If this is genuinely your question, the answer would be that she can tell her daughter that it would be nice to hug Grandma but she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to,…

The idea is "other people's desire to touch you matters more than your desire not to be touched". Certainly sounds like rape culture to me.

Either you didn't read the article, or my comment completely reflects what you were trying to say. She's not forbidding her child from hugging anyone or doing anything to stop her child from learning how to touch other humans in normal social ways. She's simply not forcing her to touch people she doesn't want to…

Ah, what a lovely society we live in where not touching people you don't want to touch makes you socially inept. No rape culture here people, nothing to see here.

I mean, I think they'd at least need a dildo.

Plus, assuming they stopped hooking up after her scandal broke, there was only one season of House of Cards released when they were talking regularly, and he says here that he watched it. So it's really "Anthony Weiner may have liked House of Cards a lot in Season 1 but lost interest in Season 2, just like he stated…

Ummm when Sydney first broke this whole scandal thing there was only one season of House of Cards released. So it is not remotely implausible that he lost interest in watching it after that.

So by "men" they mean 16-year-old boys, no?

While I get that it's annoying for people to act like this term was just invented, slang evolves in a lot of different ways and I don't see anything wrong with analyzing a term that's suddenly started to mean something new and bother a lot of people. Slang terms don't have fixed definitions, so you can't really tell…