Question for any medical professionals: is a heartbeat, in fact, the universal indicator of life?

Sure. If they were Mexican that’d be totally different though.

One of the whitest moments I experience each day is when NPR Morning Edition plays the orchestral version of “Here Without You” and I’m like, well isn’t this quite lovely.

“Bands that suck”?

It could get worse.

I don’t believe that it is. However, I do think that if your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend gaining a few pounds or being disfigured in some kind of accident or because of an illness means that you have no reason to be with them anymore, your relationship with them must have been pretty damn shallow. You…

There’s also the strong pull of “I got my ass whipped and I’m fine.” We also depending on the year we were born had moms who smoke, drank, and gained as little weight as possible (my grandmother once told me that her doctor told her to gain less than 10 lbs when pregnant with my uncle who was born in 1950) while…

Again, I agree. I’m not sure why it continues to be legal given the abundance of research indicating that it’s harmful and ineffective to boot.

Well, first of all, you said it wasn’t a word, not that it wasn’t being used correctly. Second of all, yeah, it seems pretty shitty to get bitchy about someone using a word incorrectly in the midst of discussing past abuse.

Don’t be sorry. Be right.

Nothing says “I’ve so moved on from you” like investing time, money, and energy into losing weight and getting into shape with the sole purpose of rubbing it in your ex’s face.

I know what you mean, but what I was getting at is that there seems to be a distinction made by people when a kid says “my mom hit me” vs “my mom spanked me.” One is going to automatically get a stronger reaction than the other. I’m not arguing that spanking isn’t hitting, just that there is a definite different…

Wow. Does it make you feel good to make shitty comments to someone who just disclosed that they were abused as a child?

Not saying that I disagree with you, but the law in most states does. Open hand on a clothed butt that is not forceful enough to leave a mark is accepted as being perfectly legal discipline in a lot of places in the US.

He didn’t “allow” her to attend his dad’s funeral? I’m sorry, but does this seem a wee bit petty to anyone else? I would think that even if I were on bad terms with the father of my children, I would want to attend my kids’ paternal grandfather’s funeral to support my kids. And to just show good old fashioned respect.…

LOL ;) Glad you have a sense of humor. I know where you’re coming from with the click baity thing. It’s hard when words like that that are descriptive and explain/illuminate real phenomena are so overused and you just get tired of hearing them. For me, that word is currently gaslighting. It’s real and it’s a problem…

I know the definition of mansplaining.

Mansplaining is a real thing. But that doesn’t mean that every time a dude talks that’s what’s happening. I’m confused about the above comment as well.

*sadly throws I Dated an Asian Guy in College hoodie in the trash*

I kinda thought so, but didn’t want to make assumptions...