Meh, you can dabble here and there and be totally fine—pay your bills, have a good career, be a responsible person. And I don't think many liberal-minded folks give two shits if drugs are declared illegal or not other than trying to figure out ways not to get caught. The government tries to make lots of things illegal…

Yeah, it's tough. My relative said pretty much the same thing when my aunt's husband was in the hospital dying from liver disease caused by years of heavy drinking. I thought that might shake my relative up and give them pause but I think it had the opposite effect...

Jesus Christ, can we drop the racist bullshit comments about how terrible the Middle East is every time a story like this comes out? People who dismiss an entire region because of a story like this just come across as ignorant and kinda racist. Not to mention wishing death upon an entire group of people is pretty…

Um, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I'm %100 certain you've never set foot in the Middle East, so please stop talking about shit you have no clue about.

Well shit, I wish my family member would have at least gotten that far in self-realization and had come even half as close to admitting everything you just did, so there's got to be something for being so self-aware. A major part of this person's problem was denying it was that serious (these trips to AA meetings…

Meh. We just have different opinions it seems. You're still basing your theories on your own definitions of masculinity, how you view clothing/fashion, and your perception of how these two things interact in our culture. Which is fine, but I don't feel that I can further debate if we're working off of two vastly…

Ha! Didn't think of that one.

"I do believe that women are attracted to dandies (negative term), at least in US culture, are uncomfortable with men."

ZING!

There is a lot of similarity, when you think about it. Both train people to unquestioningly follow arbitrary commands and rules dictated by a higher authority who claims superior knowledge of the game/religion, with the promise of winning/going to heaven being the ends that justify the means of listening to and…

I always really liked her and I had no idea she suffered from addictions.

Loooooove those boots too.

White t-shirts and full sleeves SHIT YES.

I was about to tear into you for acting as though everyone who likes fashion is doing it because of an Orwellian brainwashed dictum from the Fashion/Consumerist Gods, but I see here you very briefly and somewhat dismissively admit that some folks put effort into how they look because of a deeper creative drive. Call…

Yes! That's the part that's depressing for me, the whole gender stereotype thing. I think that's why I also love a well-dressed man, because there is a degree of rebellion in bucking the macho culture.

... I think you're trying to disagree with something the OP isn't saying. Anyways, they're expressing their own personal opinion on porn so it's kind of pointless to argue anything beyond a simple, "Huh. Well I respectfully disagree, but to each his own."

Yes!! Me too. I cannot hide it if I don't like someone. My friends think it's hysterical; but it has resulted in me being the outcast more than once if the person I dislike happens to be the Ringleader. Nice thing though, is I don't give a shit about everyone liking me so, meh.

Uuuggghhh. What a DICK. I hate what we women have to fucking put up with in this day and age.

Good luck with this. I had a mid-management older guy (not my direct supervisor) make comments a few days in a row about my appearance—the whole "Are you okay? You don't look like you're doing okay. Are you tired or something?" and then the next day "Oh, you look much better today." He said this loudly, so my…

I think most of the C-section comments are directed at the women who are told to get them when they're medically unnecessary; sounds like that's not the case in your situation so I wouldn't worry too much about it.