I read the original article, and it seemed that Christine didn’t even have many friends. That would make life even more painful and sad. Having struggled with being super unpopular with all the genders in my youth, I really felt for her. Things worked out for me in the end, thank god, but I don’t know how I would deal…

I find that very hard to believe. Unless it was in North London.

We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we’re also (all so?) easily swayed...

yeah true just the mere suggestion that I have a vagina also garners a lot of hate TBH.

Walking down the street as a fat person brings out a lot of hateful stuff too.

Oh no :( not that this will help much but you’re not alone. Even the people I know who are married and have great jobs are not content. We’re all just tired and need a long nap.

Well, sure they (we, I) do. Because you are told that you are meant to achieve and to aim high, to be the standard-bearer for all women before and after you, seeking to be successful in their careers and lives. It’s enormous pressure. I think, on balance, I’d rather have that pressure than worry about physical beauty,…

This law has nothing to do with stopping ‘undocumented immigrants’ from getting married. Just because someone’s not in the US legally doesn’t mean they don’t have a birth certificate.

Yeah, I’m not getting this. Why wouldn’t other government issued ID work, what’s so special about the birth certificate for a marriage license? And how would that prevent bigamy? Would a clerk even know if a Laosian BC is legit?

To the people trying to deny people born elsewhere the right to marry, to the people who are trying to deny healthcare to someone with likely terminal cancer whose wife has dutifully paid premiums for years, to the people who thinks it’s funny to make a sick man drive for hours to re-marry his wife of 2 decades, to…

Even if bigamy were a big problem I am not sure that requiring a birth certificate is the solution to that inexistent problem.

I’m not understanding how needing a birth certificate prevents bigamy. Perhaps you couldn’t marry two people in the same state but would this prevent you from having been married in another state and then marrying again in Louisiana?

Exactly my thought “Do you really have such a glut of people there trying to commit marriage fraud that you needed to pass this law?”

This is required reading:

What’s sad is that the assholes often win just because they are willing to take things farther than others. The nice guy sometimes does finish last.

I have found a reply (stole it from Miss Manners, actually) that works stunningly well on the majority of these people:

Great article! Personally, I am starting to think I need the “haters” in my life. As a weird animator, I have always had mild encouragement yet there have been quite a few undermining people in my life who could never really understand my perspective. Of course, the negative comments/attitudes from others close to me…

Sometimes quitting isn’t an option and the only person I can report it to is oblivious to the offender’s behavior.

Yup. I have a coach who is exactly this, and basically all we can do is lodge formal complaints, and hope every year elections go differently. But she is one of the most charismatic people around, in a group situation. It’s only one on one that she turns into a swearing, yelling, insulting mess. She’s too smart to get…

Note: if your boss is one of these types of miserable human beings, the thig you need to do is find another job and leave as fast as possible.