Your friends and loved ones will understand.

NPR Story Corps just had a story this week from an adult man and his mom. When he was like 9 (???) he shot and killed his sister when they found a gun. He didn’t mean to. They talked about what it’s been like for him growing up, with that experience. It was heartbreaking.

My stepdad brags about his locked safe, but he also brags about how he’s not going to be a victim in the event of a home invasion — which makes me feel like he’s not securing them as well as he should. In the extremely unlikely even that someone breaks into his house, guns blazing, does he really think he’s going to…

So many people who never cared about guns... until someone said they couldn’t have one. It’s the principle of the matter, right?! /s

I would straight up refuse to go over until I’ve been assured that all the guns are locked in a safe. They can call you crazy all they want, but if they want to see their grandkids in their home, they’ll have to play along. I know this may be easier said than done, but if it really frightens you, stand your ground on…

nah; just cancel all your other plans and I’m confident you can knock the whole list out this year. #priorities

it’s just that honestly, he just happened to be the best guy for the meme job, and it had nothing to do with the fact that he’s a white male. *shrug*

I read further down the thread, and I have to commend you on being open to changing your thinking on this. A lot of times, stubbornness will keep a person from growing, especially in situations like this where there are many people calling them out at once. It seems extraordinarily rare that a thread like this gets…

You’re correct that not all men are going to kill a woman. Nobody implied that they were. (I feel like that was a deliberate misstatement on your part. When you encounter something that outrageous on the internet, your first assumption should be that you misunderstood something.) In my experience, though, and in many…

Imagine a man doing the same thing. “Go home and ask your husband if you don’t understand this.” He’d be strung up by the balls, as he should be.

Could we call them man-pons maybe?

I get those all the time in Wisconsin, no prob.

You do have to be a woman to have an opinion that matters. Unless I’m mistakenly overlooking the male tampon market. Hmm.

Fossilized Erection sounds more experimental; Dead Arachnid Boner might be a hair metal throwback thing?

Can we talk about Sarah Paulson for a minute? I have such a crush on her lately.

I am positive I saw If I Did It on a shelf when I worked at B&N in 2007. I remember noticing how distasteful it was.

#priorities

Looking forward to adding “leaned the fuck in” to my general vocabulary for lady slayage, honestly

Huh, it’s almost like context matters.