They sound like normal teenage boys to me.

Not that they shouldn’t be punished for being spoiled brats—- but the behavior sounds pretty typical based on my experience with guys from both strict and lenient households.

I see 2 problems here. The first one is obvious that the Dad needs to learn some better parenting skills, which isn’t hard to do.

I’m going to disagree with the “criminals and vagrants” line and say they sound like kids to me. You have to tell kids things multiple times. Sometimes it takes forever. Sometimes it never sinks in, even with ‘proper’ discipline. No matter what you do. That’s life with kids.

You agree it’s a flawed institution and yet resent someone for not going along with it? I don’t care why Melania has decided not to play First Lady. I have no illusions that her intentions are noble, I think she seems like a pretty selfish and vapid person. That doesn’t make it any less outrageous that in 2017 we…

What job? First Lady isn’t a paid position with real responsibilities. It’s a sexist, thankless throwback from the days before wives were allowed to have separate lives and careers from their husbands and were expected to be a full time mothers and help-mates. I don’t have many nice things to say about Melanie Trump…

I grew up poor, yet attended a private school and was always getting money for activity fees, and this dialogue feels like a gut punch. I’ve since grown up and have done everything I could to let my parents (who are now much better off) know how much I appreciate them.

I saw Greta Gerwig do a Q&A at film festival a few weeks ago and someone asked her why she elected to make Lady Bird’s / Saoirse Ronan’s skin look bad when the actor’s skin is so perfect irl and she said it’s because almost all teenagers have acne and they should see teenagers on the screen who have acne, too.

Whatever the pay is, it’s not worth selling your soul to the devil

Geez, imagine how bad Alabamans would be if they weren’t such devoted Christians?

as an australian i can confirm that we think you have bears roaming the streets, but the guns are way way worse.

I guarantee you she is scared of bears in America. I’m an American ex-pat in Australia, and when I say that everything here wants to kill you, the standard Aussie reply is, “Yeah, but you guys have bears in America.” I think they think bears are just roaming our streets.

In 1989, my godmother was taking a shower, when she looked up and saw a huntsman spider roughly the size of a dinner plate right above her head. She thought, ‘no worries, I will just calmly and quietly finish up this shower before he has a chance to move.’ Right at that moment, the Newcastle earthquake stuck, rattling…

What the Saudis & Emiratis are doing to Yemen is vile and reprehensible:

When has a guy ever let a woman know he genuinely cares about by springing out at her naked? It doesn’t happen. This isn’t about seduction. It’s about mistaking someone’s powerlessness in a situation for his own sexual prowess. It’s abusive and pathetic.

Yeah, the Franken article on this site was a dumpster fire of usually-reasonable commenters making these exact same arguments in support of him. Totally bizarro world - he’s a creep and should be tossed away with the rest of them. There are plenty of good people around who haven’t sexually assaulted anyone who can…

That’s what frustrates me so much, to be honest. Like, the history of Hollywood is nothing but proof that a huge amount of actors are replaceable. And sure, maybe Kevin Spacey never gets to act again. But so what?! There are hundreds and likely thousands of women and men who quit the industry over the last few decades…

Agree completely. From looking at the list of Weinstein’s victims, there’s also a long list of talented actresses in their 30s and 4os whose careers mysteriously veered off track around the time they were assaulted or harassed. I wouldn’t be shocked if there are writers and journalists and comedians who’ve had the…

Cranston’s comments really irk me.

he’s never had the opportunity to defend himself and that violates due process in America