Exactly. I'm officially over this guy. The pope is supposed to be the infallible voice of god on earth, and the all-this-is-written-in-stone moral and spiritual leader of millions? But Francis is just making la-la happy noises that are either mealy-mouthed equivocations or are directly in contradiction with church law…

Am I allowed to wear to a watch without being pigeon holed? It's a nice watch.

Even if it's one of the ones that's just a single room, and you can lock the door behind you? In those cases, I don't see a difference. No one is in there with you, no one can get in there with you. And if someone's waiting outside to grab you and pull you back into the bathroom, it hardly makes a difference if you're…

*bangs head repeatedly against wall*

My first take was the is the most public passive aggressive neg that I have ever witnessed. Geeze lady, that is some dirty laundry you're waiving around. I wouldn't talk to you either.

Yeah, if your take on your adult children telling you why they're upset is "they open their mouths and all I hear is whomp whomp whomp" then I don't think /they're/ the problem.

This woman reminds me of my father. I've explained to him over and over again why I have a problem with him (he's an angry person who acts like a psycho) but he's decided that it's entirely something else that's just so silly and geeze, why can't I just get over it?! And he's convinced my grandmother (his mom) that…

Or my personal favorite:

Yup. My husband's mother does this. She was/is an addict and is physically and emotionally abusive. But she did a GREAT JOB b/c he's successful! Someone give that woman Mother of the Year!

I have some experience dealing with someone (not a parent) who is so willfully disconnected from reality that they just don't understaaaaaand why you're upseetttttt what did they do wronnnnng can't we talk about it? And fine, you summon your backbone and your patience and you explain it clearly and simply. And your…

Your mother sounds like my mother; I cut her out of my life when I was 16 (I lived with my father) and asked her for an apology for the beatings and neglect that she inflicted upon me. Her response was basically a shrug that I could visualize over the phone. I just had to get on with life knowing that there would be…

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

"They accuse me of being a terrible person, but won't elaborate about exactly what I've done. Well, sometimes they do, but it doesn't make sense, at least to me."

What an unhelpful and unnecessary post! Did you get your snark quota in for the day?

Getting attacked in the bathroom due to your gender status is not a first-world problem. It's a problem.

Thanks helping us out of our misery and telling us what we have to care about and what not. Really, appreciated.

Yeah, it's so petty to worry about the well-being and safety of people in first world nations! It's not like they're at a significantly higher risk of being assaulted and murdered, unlike all those people in lower income nations that you're generalizing, right? Right?

yes, please western person tell me that the problems of my family in iran are so much more important because I am really sure you can compare, and because I am sure that in the oh so poor third world countries we only care about surviving and such things as gender equality and representation do not matter for us nor…

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