I think my problem is that I've never had the emotional intelligence to have spent a single minute of my life considering whether my responses to people whining about their hard hard lives are being interpreted as genuine empathy or slimy condescension.

That must have been very trying and upsetting for you. Tell me more about your feelings on people who do not adequate react to the the various news events of your life. I am here to understand.

Uh hm.

"Banter" has garnered a reputation over the last few years as the preserve of preening gorilla males, desperate to establish themselves as the alpha of their group at the expense of the their humiliated peers - and as such unbecoming of a modern lady.

I often find it's hard to think of follow-up questions when I am not even remotely curious about the answer.

...this is actually a basic form of empathy. No-one is trying to "one-down" you, so much as they are demonstrating "I know how you feel because I am having these similar experiences - let us bond by sharing the ways in which our situations are not so different."

What is an A-Rod?

This just in: Feminist website commentators debate details of unqualified assumption of sluttishness.

It only made him faster, stronger, more virile!

You only feel this way because you are on your period. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about because I have been with many, many women who have all had periods.

Hahahaha! Balance, muthafucka.

Because that's what shooting is actually like when you're a human being and not some 13 year old on COD.

I've always been totally bemused by the massive hatred people seem to feel for that game. It's one of the few I've played in the last few years that just worked on every level for me.

I demand an inquiry!

"Nancy Lanza May Have Been a ‘Survivalist’"

Bunga Bunga for everybody!

Yeah, that's right.

I've watched both, and:

Fortunately, Hulk knows how to deal with racism.

YOU SUCK, MCBAIN.