Oops. I thought your reply was to a comment on another thread. So my other reply makes zero sense.

It made me more angry than hurt, so it was okay. Two of my guy friends met with him for the first time that day as well and weren’t told anything like that

Yeah, I’ve definitely led the charge to get rid of him. He’s the post-bacc advisor for prehealth students and seems to think that older men who come back to school are “brave, disciplined, and likely to succeed” while women who come back are “lazy, unintelligent, and likely to have children and drop out of school.”

I can’t tell if my comment posted, so sorry if it’s here twice.

Every time I try to stream The Babadook my power flickers and my TiVo freezes.

I was never scared of The Sixth Sense but I only made it like ten minutes into The Witch. Too much.

I only watch scary movies at home too. And the second I see a pet on the screen I pause the movie to Google whether the pet will be okay. If the answer is no, I don’t need to see that movie.

I wish I could be as kind to myself. I’m going to be up all night worrying that the guy in the story might find out about the “real” superlative. It’s been almost twenty years and I don’t think he ever found out.

I really wish editing posts was working!

I didn’t think you were overly harsh. I know that gendered slurs can be a bigger deal for some than others. I haven’t lived your life nor have you lived mine.

Oh, I know. I have a huge problem with the intermingling of politics and religion and the way that this was added after the fact just really pissed off a younger me. Hell, it still pisses me off.

You’re right. I should work on my gendered word choice.

For some reason I can’t edit this comment and I just want to make it clear that I was not mean to Best Engineer. I went to a nerd school and we really didn’t have a lot of mean stuff going on. He was an okay kid and we chose “best engineer” because we knew that would be something that would make him happy. I think…

It’s us going backwards. I sat through the pledge throughout high school because I opposed the recital of anything “under god” in a public school. I was in the middle of the Bible Belt and as far as I know there was only one family that had a problem with it. But that bitch had a problem with literally everything I…

I totally understand that you can’t share your field because it’s small. It’s so easy to dox ourselves!

Do you mind sharing what your niche is? That would make it easier for us to give good advice.

Oh, he’s in it. They’re pretending that he faked his death or some nonsense.

The hijab doesn’t cover the face. That’s a niqab.

See, I’m also just uneasy if I know that I’m going into a situation where masks or mascots are to be expected. So when I went to Chuck E Cheese for an ex’s nephew’s birthday party I was fine.

I find the heavy makeup to be especially disturbing when it’s out of place. A full mask of makeup out on the town? Okay, I don’t like it but I can deal.

Until recently I had a boss who would consider going to therapy evidence he could use to further manipulate me. (This is a dude who said I should go on permanent disability when I missed four days for strep throat)