Plausible enough. I’m just not sure that self-awareness is always the get-out-of-jail-free card it’s played as nowadays. Sometimes self-indulgent contrived garbage remains self-indulgent contrived garbage, even if you do remember to put a lampshade on it.

That said, “I’m not sure” is not a mere rhetorical device here;…

Edgar has been pining for Lindsay for a long time. He did apparently get over her at some point, but old habits die hard. I didn’t buy one word of that “Lucky you said that; I’m feeling nothing for you at all”-speech.

I think we should have reached the point where book and show storylines need to converge again somewhat, if characters are supposed to end up in the same places. Sansa sending Brienne back to King’s Landing, where she can meet up with Jaimie again is probably a symptom of this. Their storyline ends on a pretty…

A gender reversed version of this with that much diversity and that little objectification? I’d be thrilled.

Sex is a motivator, politics are a hygiene factor. I wouldn’t want to be with someone, just because they had the right politics, but I would certainly stop wanting to be with someone, if they were fans of Trump.

Meh. The whole idea is that we’re better than them.

I agree that “they go low we go high” can definitely be taken too far (eg. I want Dems to obstruct the hell out of the Trumpe regime, whenever they still can, and be as petty as possible in the process), but there’s just no justification for going for Barron when…

I’m also a big fan of this kind of very provisional “planning”, details to be hammered out later. I like that it minimizes the frustration with flaky people, and I also like that it generally takes the pressure off. It’s no big deal to decline a short-notice inivitation (the ready excuse “too short notice” is already…

Grow up.

My mum had a similiar saying. “At least you’re sure of having an intelligent interlocutor”.

[it’s just that some men really seem to think that women find these kinds of labours inherently more _rewarding_ than they would, which makes it a-okay to leave them alone with it and that makes me see red. I’m glad you clarified that you understand that no one actually enjoys the grind. Thankfully I was just reading…

[But I’m actually not doing much of the unglamorous, thankless but necessary work either, probably reacted overly strong to distract myself from that.]

I take your point that people are free to see no value in political activism, and I’m also absolutely with you that laziness is not _inherent_ in maleness, which is why specifically said “they’re raised to...” in my original comment (nurture, not nature).

I doubt all of the women who do this are “into” it. Sometimes, if you really give a shit about something, you’ll do things you aren’t particularly into, just because it needs to be done, and no one else will. 

That point is, when you’re a 50 old guy, having childring might indeed not be in the mix any more. Because the odds that this 30 girl in your bicycle club is able to have biological children may be high, but the odds that she’s actually into you enough to have them with you are a lot lower that a lot of 50 old guys…

Dude, reread those lyrics.

Not at lot of those around, I’m afraid. Things that don’t involve human interaction are mostly automated nowadays.

Worse: he’s also the man Ivanka wishes she were fucking. (Her starry-eyed gaze at him is the second meme that came out of this visit).

There’s a difference between wanting attention for your ideas, and wanting attention for your private life. I don’t see the hypocrisy. As a reader, I don’t need to know someone’s private life to appreciate someone’s ideas.

That’s one possible scenario, of course. If I kept asking every Friday for a a couple of weeks whether you were free and you kept not answering, or flaking out last minute, I wouldn’t try reconnecting. But I also wouldn’t worry about my attempt at reconnecting being read as desperation, or not being able the one take…

Probably.

The point is - people expressed worries that an attempt at reconnecting after longer lack of communication would be ill-received by the the other person (read as “desperate” or not “not being able to take a hint”) and I just wanted to reassure them that that’s not necessarily the case, that sometimes…