I’ve got a medical condition that requires me to stay particularly well-hydrated and means I dehydrate faster, and with the approval of my cardiologist, I’ve been using seltzer/club soda to that end for years. His logic is that “anything that gets you to actually drink the required amount of fluids is fine”, and I do…

I.... don’t know very many any more. I did going into the last presidential election. Some went democrat or refused to vote or voted for other candidates, and they’re all disgusted and ashamed. Most of the rest have gone hardcore trump-or-bust, though. Everything is “fake news” or “I mean, it could be/they have a…

Hey, if the bar’s on the ground, you can’t crawl under it unless you put some work in.

I’d watch either of those movies.

I didn’t know this existed, and I’ll be taking it for my next online argument going forward. Thanks!

Every woman I know between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five has been sexually assaulted. Most of us were underage the first time. Exactly none of the perpetrators has faced any consequences for it. A year ago, a security guard caught a bunch of dudes staring into my dorm window at midnight after I’d taken a shower…

I spent the longest time refusing to believe that was a toupee, because I couldn’t fathom anyone paying to make their hair look that ridiculous.

You don’t understand what’s inappropriate about intentionally conflating two completely distinct cultures of people in a way that erases the existence of one of them (a population that has been repeatedly subjected to genocide) on the grounds of “500 years ago, some Italian guy declared that all brown people are the…

I’m guessing you’re the sort who’d say it wouldn’t be problematic and you’d be honored if it were a team named for white people. And going off that assumption, go look up what the Hibernian Brotherhood says about Notre Dame’s ‘Fighting Irish’. There’re two problems here: using a ethnic/religious/cultural/national…

You’re not. Fox News and the current administration are.

Only problem is what happens when rapey dude’s the boss/teacher/colleague with necessary information who refuses to meet with/hire/help any women because “what if the accusers come for me”. If these guys are willing to sequester themselves away completely so that there’s no chance of anyone having to deal with them,…

YES! THIS! As I see it, it breaks down four ways:
Assume they’re into it. They are. Fantastic!
Assume they’re not into it. They’re not. Fine.
Assume they’re into it. They’re not. Assault.
Assume they’re not into it. They are. Mood is lost.

And for some reason, number four is usually considered more bothersome than…

I dated a guy with Asperger’s for two years. (First relationship for both of us, but we were both adults.) In that time, he misread a tentative nonverbal signal as a positive one exactly once. Never made that mistake with a negative one. There were a handful of times where he stopped and asked clarification about…

Does you or the person you were with teach yoga or some other sort of flexibility training? Because I would pay to learn that if you’re over 5'4".

My dad trimmed his once before he came to visit -he was working out of state at the time. Mom didn’t recognize him and almost called the cops.

You are absolutely correct in that my experience is not a typical one nationwide, although it seems to be a fairly common one back home (central MD). I believe that part of the lack of clarity in my comments is due to my misunderstanding what Nik had said; I had originally understood their comment as saying that the…

I’m white, and perhaps my perspective is skewed from being a minority and growing up primarily in my culture and around white people adjacent to it, but the only people I’ve known to reject this hypothesis, when it’s come up, have been the ‘it’s not that bad’ sort. The people whose first instinct is to defend the cop…

I... had been under the impression that this was common knowledge among white people as well. That this is what racists of every stripe do -try to normalize their hate; try to infiltrate the lawmakers, the enforcers, the educators (although to a lesser extent, because the hyper-masculine cultures that promote violence…

Because this government cares so much about free speech. /s

This is evil. There’s not much difference, but...