If you want to write a long story that paints a complex portrait of a villain, it is adivisable to first find a villian with some degree of complexity. Former college football player turned cop who likes to rape women ain’t exactly Richard III.

I find the word 'tits' to be so demeaning....they are "glorious, majestically-peaked torso mountains".

That's not wrong. A 3 or 4 year old? That, obviously, would be wrong.

You took the words out of my mouth. If you're old enough for the concept of breasts to be titillating/sexual, you're old enough to know touching a stranger's is NOT OK, and are thus deserving of any throat punches which result from doing so. (Disclaimer: All my parenting theory is based on horse training, in which…

My husband was Chuck E. Cheese. He quit when they tried to make him do the Macarena (it was the 90s). Now I can tell him how much worse it could have been...

Of course you hadn't heard they were switching over. It came with absolutely no announcement. I remember turning on the station on my way home from school, wondering what was happening, and fiddling with the dial just to make sure I had the right station.

He IS from Virginia. However he's from the part of Virginia with zero rednecks and many wannabe rednecks.
I am from NoVa too. I remember in high school, there were guys every now and then wearing flannel shirts, Camo trucker hats, saying "ya'll," driving pickup trucks with the Confederate flag on them. I was like,…

You need to Google "Slut Machine" before you try to school me on sex or feminism.

[fart noise]

All kids go through a hitting/kicking phase, or biting (ugh). That doesn't mean they will be abusive adults, but the behavior should be corrected. The mom was probably trying to avoid "rewarding" the behavior with a reaction, which does work for some things like tantrums or whining. The best way to deal with hitting…

"A little thing that can turn into anything at anytime."