A good writer is hard to find in any gender, but I’m not so sure it’s getting worse. Maybe there’s seems to be so much more bad writing now than before is because there’s so much more writing, period? Before the internet we just wouldn’t see that much writing of non-professional writers, because there were fewer…

I have some sypmathy for Philip (he never had a chance with that father, clearly nobody has ever modelled non-toxic masculinity to him; then the tragic loss of his beloved sister - the show really makes your heart break for him in that episode where they deal with the plane crash; talk about a tragic backstory), but I …

Love or not, I would be extremly surprised if he hadn’t, considering his upbringing. Those are aristos, after all. I’m always reminded of Empress Maria Theresia of Austria - by the end of her life certainly nobody’s idea of a doormat - , who also had one of these famously rare love marriages, but although that love…

My impression was that people weren’t pissed because they thought Lynch was _praising_ Trump exactly, but because he was approaching the topic with an air of amused detachment, (“finally, something happening; let’s see how it turns out”). He sounded like someone who didn’t have any skin in the game. Like a romantic…

Trump could compensate for his countless deficiences by taking the easiest route possible and appealing to people’s basest instincts. There’s no reason whatsoever to assume that anyone unwilling to sink equally low could replicate his sucess when starting from an equally flimsy basis. It’s like thinking Alexander The…

Still reads perfectly asinine to me.

I does incite my own passion for disruption, but my sort of disruption will be one they won’t welcome at all. This much I can promise. 

Honestly, I didn’t even think of the wing(wo)man expectation, which now appears like a pretty glaring oversight on my part, since it seems to be such a big thing in US-centric media. But where I am from, I feel it’s not a thing among women. Maybe it’s still all a bit more patriarchal here after all, and the female…

(and of course: mileages vary. I mean, obviously exhibitionists involve you in their kink merely by making you witness, and everyone gets why that’s upsetting if you didn’t consent to the arrangement. On the other end of the spectrum, I wouldn’t feel sympathetic for religous zealots feeling umcomfortable about a gay…

You’re right, I shouldn’t have speculated about her motives. There are a lot of possible reasons for being uncomfortable with flirting happening around you I clearly haven’t considered. I still don’t entirely get why “having to witness flirting” = “being involved in a flirting dynamic”, (not everyone who doesn’t like…

Well, if everyone in that friend group used to be so “mature” before girly friend arrived, I would trust the guys here to have some agency, and not fall for the femme fatale or at least catch on to her womanly wiles early enough to do their own damage control. Yeah, that expectation might turn out to be a bit too…

Nah, there’s nothing particularly “girly” about flirting - roughly 50% of the people who generally engage in it are presumably male; it wouldn’t force _her_ to suddenly “connect and share”. She’s resenting that her guys get distracted (not from “connecting and sharing with her”, fine, but from whatever they were doing…

Alas, doing one thing often means not being able to do the other thing. The distinction between regret about the thing you did vs the thing you didn’t just isn’t that easy to make, once you factor in opportunity costs.

You and I have different ideas what it means to be good at being scathing and/or passive aggressive. NPH might have been too obtuse to get it (or unwilling to escalate/ at least smart enough not do keep digging), but lots of other people certainly weren’t. In my book, you’d _want_ to calibrate a scathing remark so…

That google guy _did_ write that memo and, as a grown-up, should be able to face the music. People could make him look bad by merely _quoting_his exact words (and lots of people jumped to his defense and cried “out of context!”, but for what it’s worth, none of them ever proceeded to add any context that made me…

I could never shake the feeling that Michael is just as much of a lab rat as the original team cockroach.

I was strangly sure that Earth was not a simulation (strangly, because I couldn’t have pointed to any evidence backing upt that certainty), and now I feel strangly validated that I was “right” (strangly, because it’s a pure coincidence since my certainty wasn’t based on any evidence).

It’s also quite possible that more heavily Christian cultures, where suicide is considered a mortal sin, just report less of it. I come from a rural background of such a Catholic country and I’ve heard many stories how in the olden days such stuff was generally covered up if possible.

I think it’s important not to _glamorize_ suicide, wallow in the lurid details of specific techniques, and scenarios - that’s the sort of thing that gives people ideas. But the opposite of glamorizing isn’t stigmatizing. Stigmatizing in fact has (at the very least) the same negative effect as glamorizing for the same…

“No, it didn’t” would be a logical answer do “Did it work?”. The question however was “So it didn’t work” - here “No, it didn’t work” would be a double negative, so I for once wouldn’t answer that version of the question that way. Of course, double negatives are not uncommon in colloquial speech, so, yeah, there’s…