You should probably direct this article to a white woman. I’m not her. In fact, I’m a woman from a country where female infanticide is the highest, where maternal care is one of the lowest, and where women are forced to sell their ovaries and have abortions and be shamed for not ‘producing boys’. GOT IT? GOOD. I’M…

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

Thanks for the insightful reasoning.

Yeah, I've worked with illiterate adults in the past, and that's a total face-saving maneuver. "Can you help me pronounce...?" is a pretty standard way of navigating a world that is incredibly unkind to adults who cannot read.

Just a personal preference, I think you should drop the one from Jacob Salazar. That is a textbook example of a functionally illiterate person getting help ordering their food, not a dumb person being a jerk/insane.

I'm all for making fun of jerks, but sometimes a bit of sympathy for someone with a shameful problem…