I despise the entire system of tipping and would love for it to end. As it stands now, tipping is nothing more than rich people exploiting their lower and middle class customers to help directly pay their lower and middle class employees, all so that they can pocket and hoard even more of the wealth they aren’t…

It’s common for memories to blend. Human brains are not computers. Look hard enough, and you’ll find anachronistic details in some of everyone’s memories.

Agreed. He was probably raised to be comfortable with tactile affection and support, and I expect him to stop and check consent from now on, now that people are telling him they were uncomfortable.

I’m not disagreeing. And he absolutely needs to do better. I just think we’ve seen more of this with women than men because of our general culture, not because he feels entitled to women’s bodies, on the level of Al Franken or that guy in the White House now. I suspect that the Biden-affection gender balance would be…

Not saying he shouldn’t have checked for consent first, but fb has been covered with images of him with his hands on a man’s thigh here in the last day or two, and there are loads of images out there with his hands all over Obama....at least one with him reaching thighward (though I think the President had his legs…

Biden’s wrongs are fairly low on the scale of wrongs against women, but they are still wrong. My expectation is that he’s waking up to that now and will seek consent before touching others in the future.

It used to be. Originally, it was all six flags that had governed Texas that flew over the Arlington park. At some point in the past decade (probably after the Charleston shooting) they took it down though. Now it’s six American flags flying on those poles....you ride very close to them if you ride the Judge Roy…

Everyone deserves space to learn and grow, and his response sounds like he intends to. The way he acts isn’t so abnormal for his age, and not everyone has learned at the same speed to broaden the concept of consent to everyday interactions.

How awful. =( I hope she’s fully away from him, and I’m sorry you had to witness it. Try not to feel bad for your reaction, though....that sh** is seriously unnerving for everyone.  No one can expect to have a perfect response at the ready when the thing they want to respond to is so far out of the range of acceptable…

Agreed.  There’s never only one.  I would love to believe that his account is true, but we’ll know before long if it isn’t.  

We’ve got to come to terms with the fact that someone can do good things and be likable, while also hurting people sometimes. We have to be prepared to process our own emotions about that, because refusal to do so leads to things like Barbara Streisand and Diana Ross, and to comment threads full of stans talking about…

Here’s the thing though.....we’re going to have so much to cancel if we’re just cancelling everything done by artists who hurt people. There are SO. MANY. And not wanting to give up music and TV and characters they’ve loved is one of the reasons that there are so many people still constantly stanning for these…

This sounds good in theory, but I hope the technology never happens. The ability to abort a pregnancy is vital to woman is abusive relationships. 

I’ve not found that argument to be particularly helpful, because a lot of them like to imagine themselves as martyrs, and they think they or anyone else should jump to offer up their kidneys or whatever (not they actually would in real life, but they like to imagine themselves as selfless).

Can we just give all conservatives some RPG-based training? Because maybe if they learn to understand rape in a fantasy game setting, they’ll stop recommended ranged weapons as defense against close-range stealth attacks.

Same. Anyone mentally healthy and secure in their abilities will just outright tell you if their grades sucked.  

As someone in striking distance of all the major parade cities, I can say Mobile is my favorite. Each city has its charm, but Mobile sends me home with the most overflowing bags, and NOWHERE else have I been hit with ice cream sandwiches, trying to share and eat them between floats so they don’t melt on everything. :D

I don’t have data to support this, but my impression of most hate crime hoaxes is that the person doesn’t feel that the public is noticing all the smaller hate incidents that marginalized people are suffering. They feel that they have to do something to make people realize what’s going on so that it will stop, but…

I thought maybe I should come back and add why I have issues with Chuck Hoskin Jr and his statement, with its overtly hostile reaction to the actions of a woman:

It’s a new reason to hate a powerful woman. Don’t go ruining it for everyone with your logic and common sense.~