... why would you bring a knife into the bathroom just because? Was he planning to, perhaps, julienne some carrots while he was in there? Mince some onions? Cut some tile he was planning to lay?

Wait for someone to get killed? Again?

I’m in a literally stressful place for work right now (as in, the building I am working in could NOT be more physically stressful for me unless maybe it was on fire and also full of snakes) and I wound up just reading my boyfriend headlines from Jez a couple days ago and breaking down because of how awful it is to be…

Yes! I am also extremely grateful they waited to be sure that this was a photo put up to intentionally distress people rather than all the other reasons you might want to post a photo of a murdered woman!

MEANWHILE, I had turnaround of less than an hour when myself and at least three other people reported extremely homophobic language (aimed at lesbians in case anyone else thinks that Facebook just has a problem with women). It “didn’t violate community standards”.

Maybe it’s the fact that the internet is just full of actual dumpster fires pretending to be people today, but my skin actually crawled at the “nice guy” part of that.

I was afraid of that. I have been advocating for a Really Life Skills class since I wasn’t allowed to take Home Ec in 7th grade (I had to take choir because I was in “advanced” classes and my logic was: I cannot sing but I need to eat, but no one gave a shit about this impeccable logic) and this should be part of it.…

I knew a girl (not well) in my high school who was a naturalized citizen. Her very traditional family had contracted a marriage with friends of theirs when she and her groom were both children (possibly when they were infants). She got married at probably 16 and I know she got sent to the alternative high school for…

Serious question: does anyone know how much we’re doing to educate kids about that, or are we leaving it up to parents and hoping for the best? I work in tech in a creative role and the number of people who have NO FUCKING CLUE about copyright issues, which is a common concern for us, is just hair-tearingly…

I’m glad you said that, not because I was questioning what you said in your previous comment but because there are so many comments that are arguing whether this was consensual or not and that seems ... beside the point. Whether she could mathematically give consent or not, we as adults with some information about her…

Because they don’t care back. I know we have no way of knowing what was going on in his mind, but I think the nice-guy/friend-zone theory flies. I’m a woman; I’m also an inveterate flirt who develops crushes on my friends all the time. So I make a pass and it’s either reciprocated or not, and if it’s not, I drop it,…

I’m actually voting for Hillary and happy to do so, so I’m not sure what your point is. I said that in the actual caucus, where we assign delegates, we went whole-heartedly for Bernie, which is true. My overall point was that Washington is a statistical outlier in that we are more liberal than the majority of the rest…

I hope so! It is a big deal though; there’s another video of a Vanner mare whose mane and tail are even longer. than his.

I watched all the way through because I was worried about that too. I know the hair is a big deal for Vanners but I hope when they’re working (and not being filmed) their tails are tied up.

Gypsy Vanners have more hair. It’s kind of amazing to watch.

If you’re using Reformed the way I understand it to be conventionally used in religious discussion, you’re describing what I would call Calvinism. (At the time it arose, Lutherans called it Calvinism; people who practiced it called it Reformed. I wasn’t aware Reformed had survived into the modern day, tbh.) Calvinism…

And that Obama has delegated his ACA Death Panels to take all of the guns he has personally taken, in violation of the 2nd Amendment, to force transgender people into the bathroom to shit, in defiance of biological facts.

Pro tip: If you are a man and you are SO FUCKING BOTHERED about someone of the “wrong” gender in YOUR restroom, do all your business in a stall, with the door closed and locked. I promise, you will not turn gay or into a woman if other men cannot see and admire your giant wang.

Yup. I really hope we can get a grip on separating the artist from the art at some point soon, because however I feel about Johnny Depp, the fact that he was super hot and angsty at exactly the right point of my life for me to just loooooooove him doesn’t make him a good person who’s worth expending any emotional…

Ugh, you’re making me envision that. I cannot imagine being so fucking full of myself under ANY circumstances where I would forget that, you know, the human-shaped things around me are, in fact, people and deserve courteous treatment, especially if they are on my payroll.