My point is that this wouldn't happen in 2014 in a community with a significant Jewish population, and the fact that there's a distinction IS UNACCEPTABLE. It shows how privilege and ignorance can lead directly to dehumanization/callousness/othering.

The fact that there isn't a large Jewish population there is completely arbitrary. The holocaust happened to PEOPLE, they are PEOPLE.

Is anything real? 'Are we living in the Matrix?' Research Assignment

Maybe people make a lot of unwanted advances based on her persona, and this is her way of telling them she's not gonna sleep with them?

Go fuck off down a mystery hole. If you're hesitating and thinking about sticking around, maybe commenting a few more times, just don't. Go ahead and find the nearest opening in the ground that leads to unknown depths, and report to the very bottom of it.

I do have mixed feelings. I know they are exploiting that she's the only one making herself available. On the other hand, if no one in her life gave a shit to look for her and no one in her family was able to adopt her son, it stands to reason that she doesn't have much of a support system to help her get back into…

IIRC, she has a learning disability or some sort of developmental disability. Cut her a damn break, willya? What is wrong with you?

So sorry, I hope you can get some help for your PTSD. Cognitive behavioral therapy can help some.

This quote guts me.

Actually, in the linked article, it says that the family that adopted him doesn't feel he is old enough (he's 14) to know who his actual birth mother is so they haven't told him. It's a crazy situation. I feel for the adoptive family, because you adopt a child thinking they are yours for all these years only to find…

I was held under lock and key for years by a parent. I was emotionally destroyed, daily. My flashbacks are intense and I am still deeply troubled by my decade long torment. But I was never sexually abused. I can only imagine what her dreams are like.

That's what killed me the most. That, and this quote:

I just went from liking Seth Rogen to loving Seth Rogen. Well done.

So be it.

A side note: This is even MORE busted than you might think. The biologist who coined the term "alpha male" has since decided his own research was flawed and has been campaigning, without success, to have the book that coined the term (which he wrote) taken out of print. So "alpha women" is based on a "scientific" idea…

I thought only crazies bred fathers to daughters. Is it really a common thing for supposedly responsible breeders to inbreed that way? That's clearly not a good idea genetically.

It's extremely bad manners. Every time you don't tip, you're stealing from your server. Regardless of whether you tip, your server has to tip out, at a minimum, the kitchen and bar. When you don't tip, that means serving you costs your server 5-10% of the cost of your meal. I know owners and managers who ban people…

I live in BC too, and we pay servers a wage that is below minimum wage; while it might not be $3 an hour, this is one of the world's most expensive places to live. Adjusted for cost of living, we aren't any better, so yes, you are an indisputable asshole for not tipping. If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to…

What a doll! I saw someone who I could have sworn was Ms. Schumer near Columbus Circle in NYC on Sunday. I was staring rudely (not being deliberately rude, just doing the "Is that....???" stare) and this person just smiled kindly and continued on her way. It most probably was not her, but that stranger's…