Reasonableness fistbump, man. That improves the week right there.

I completely get your point. I know how big a role the combination of TV news and embedded photographers played in ending the Vietnam War. It is important that we understand what's happening abroad (wherever that is) and empathize with people far away.

You're ahead of many! I eloped last Thursday, which has suddenly become bizarre timing.

Fuck the media exponentially increasing the number of people traumatized by broadcasting horrific, invasive images and gratuitous details of injuries. THANKS, NOW I FEEL SICK, TOO. How about broadcasting what the trauma counselors are saying instead of the things that are traumatizing?

When you hear her voice, start singing the obvious Lily Allen lyrics and go eat something really tasty.

GO, YOU.

Accepting size is not the same as accepting illness or unhealthy habits. If your blood pressure is high or you're in terrible cardiovascular shape, you can address these problems. You can eat better, too. You'll be healthier for it, but that improvement in health may not bring with it major weight loss. Accepting that…

No one needs an "excuse" not to prioritize your ideas about what is and isn't attractive.

Excellent avoidance of spoilers. Well done. Now I will not read the comments, obviously.

Relevant: yoisthisracist.com/post/44794258278/also-for-the-white-pride-assholes-its-worth-noting

O_O How is this even ...

I would have recommended Islay single malt. The iodine element is from seaweed, I believe. Perhaps Bowmore Mariner?

I had a revelation along these lines while standing on an Upper West Side corner, watching a doorman usher a small white dog into a van ready to whisk it away for primping of some kind. "Who needs this service?" suddenly became "Right on, small-scale entrepreneur!" Dog seemed cool with it, too.

The whole "historic traditional procreative purposes" thing mystifies me. Historically, traditionally, it's been about property. Is there really any debate about this among people who study this stuff?

... I mean, forcrynoutloud, they've got such things themselves. (Whiiiine)

Yeah, and I'd like to get in early with the idea that _they themselves_ should value enthusiastic consent over "getting away with it" or "seizing opportunity" or however they're conceiving of it. Gah. Too tired to fill this thought out right now, but the conquest and sneakiness models have got to go ....

Personally, I'm thinking of starting to carry snakes when I fly ...

Then framing that as FYI legal advice would have been kinder. Skipping the "um," for example.

I'm trying to train myself to have that reflex (or something similar) instead of freezing. Of course, if I _had_ done something like that to the bride's family's favorite old uncle who was touching my neck, &c., at my bro-in-law's wedding, it would have been seriously bad.

Let's just retire the word "real" entirely. It's just causing trouble here.