Acting like a child isn’t a gendered quality. Nice try, child.

Former President Doesn’t Get It; Wet Behind The Ears Child Blogger Gets Everything

OMG, totes, Becky!

Or you know people can date whoever the hell they want

This to me is the most galling thing. Aloof detachment and condescension directed at people fighting for their very lives is a special kind of cruel.

Never heard of Brother Nature (because I am an Old), but this is Reason 4,009,736 that I am glad social media wasn’t around when I was a youth. Not because I was spewing bigoted hogwash, but because there are no lasting secrets on the Internet, not even that dumb shit you did as a pre-teen. It can come back to haunt…

Preteens just repeat the things they hear around them. It’s completely unreasonable to hold things against them years later. That’s even true of things like arson and armed robbery (which most justice systems in the US believe are juvenile court matters and should be remained sealed.)

Ex Machina was the Bluebeard story on film, though no one seemed to notice.

Uh, Indonesian Hinduism is not less authentic than Indian Hinduism... Sanskrit is a language not a people. If J.K.R. was inspired by Indonesian mythology, she doesn’t have to go back to the Indian myth to legitimate her interpretation. Indian people are not the only authoritative representation of Hinduism. Amish…

I have complex feelings that I can’t quite articulate tied to colonialism and negative stereotypes around deities from Asia.

Am I the only one who’s kinda here for this? Like, as a single 29 year old, looking in at the outside at like everybody coupling off, there’s this cultural expectation that friendship doesn’t count on the same level. Fuck that. Marrying your bestie should be a thing. That bond counts.

Pretty sure if he knew me, even a little, I’d be his favorite Jew, Hannah. Which reminds me, why can I ostensibly be written in the Book of Life, but can’t get out of the grays after nine years on this lovely site?

Anybody who routinely sleeps naked doesn’t own two cats that routinely pounce on them at night. Reeking of herring would not help matters.

Why do we have to forgive men who hurt women (and others)? I don’t agree that we do. I think we (as a society) need to hold them accountable and need to support them to a) be better and b) not have power over others. But forgiveness is 100% off the table for me. No one deserves forgiveness, especially those who are…

No, I wasn’t disappointed that he didn’t provide an explanation of Area X. I don’t think he owes the reader that information and it’s unimportant. I’m totally okay with ambiguity in fictional universes. What’s more important is how the characters in the story come to terms with the new or unexplainable. He didn’t…

I suggested this elsewhere but when you start the series, make a count of Vandermeer’s pet words and how long he goes between using them. It’s a fun way to distract yourself from realizing you just committed yourself to reading three garbage books.

I initially wanted to reconcile with my wife after she had an affair, so I’ll try to answer the ‘why’ in your comment.

:) My nerd flag is flying HIGH on this thread!

Jane’s response to letter #1 is getting a lot of hate, I think unjustly. The sad fact is that what this woman is going through is far from uncommon, and most women in this situation stay, even if they can’t forgive their husband’s infidelity/abuse/whatever. It’s a moral compromise they make in order to preserve their…

I found out my ex was cheating when I was 8 months pregnant. I locked down emotionally and decided I could stick it out for two years, instead of taking my toddler and soon-to-be-newborn and trying to manage on my own. I was a SAHM so I frankly needed that financial security.