It is possible, I guess, that the boyfriend isn’t the one that she started having sex with? One of my teachers was a serial paedophile and one of the girls in my class also had a series of ‘boyfriends’ that she was inappropriate with. One of them she stayed with on and off for six years.

Or maybe people could not be sexist/abusive tools about it? Sure, if you use your boobs to attract viewers then your boobs are going to be the stars of the show - doesn’t mean she should be abused or belittled.

Well, since the headline and image made me think that Ed Sheeran had married a dude and adopted the adorable moppet...I am now in an existential crisis over my level of pop culture cluelessness. Did the fact I thought Ed Sheeran could well by gay for all I know of him make me more or less clueless than if he was gay…

Exactly. It frustrates me, because it is usually the dog that suffers because of this encouragement of ‘cute’ aggression. Then the owner is all ‘I don’t know what happened!’ after the dog has bitten a baby or attacked a bigger dog and come off worse.

People always think that little dogs behaving badly are so cute...up until the point the little dog bites a baby or a visitor. Then how things change.

Based on my experience with my nephew - because the slightest HINT of a cool breeze and a baby will gleefully try and pee in your face. That sorta thing puts a dampener on a classy, LGBT Satanic dinner party.

I remember how...full body terrified the harassed cat looked. And the creep factor inherent in Pepe being a sentient, speaking skunk chasing around a cat.

I would say work to see if you can both work outside your comfort zones. Can you let something go before you feel it has been wrung dry? Can he actually say what he wants when it is important, even if it causes a row. The issue I would have is him doing anything to avoid conflict - does he get passive-aggressive about…

Me too! I was all ‘oh my god - this is my non-grey home now!’ Then it went away :(

It is so weird though...I mean, I know that I think that the Republican Party has a lot of racist and hateful messages, but apparently they think so too? The woman’s banner didn’t directly call them names, it just declared ‘no hate, no racism’. But apparently the RNC can’t stomach that sort of message, racism and hate…

I agree in principle, but he was asking for a very specific example - whole family complicit in honour killing - and I couldn’t think of anything from the modern era that fit those parameters exactly off the top of my head. I am sure they exist, religion provides a good figleaf for terrible behaviour no matter the…

The first full apology from the Vatican came within this decade. It is hardly impressive, and for most victims of abuse insufficient. In addition, Muslim clergy and scholars have condemned honour killings. So...

In the last fifty years. The Catholic Church - within the lifetime of most of its high ranking officials - was knowingly covering up child abuse and protecting the abusers. There are people alive today who were abused while the Church didn’t so much turn a blind eye, as whistle and keep a lookout. And the countries…

I can’t - off the top of my head - but the Catholic Church and their decades long cover up of institutional child abuse can't really thrown stones.

Maybe. It’s just such a strong ‘ech’ reaction, and usually the most I can muster is ‘Huh, not that flattering?’.

OK...this is off topic...but why do I hate Taylor Swift’s hair so much? Is it the Children of the Damned flashbacks? Is she being tarred with the lingering cultural shame I feel over us making BoJo the new Foreign Secretary? Is it because of that time Kim K dyed her hair platinum blonde and wore that really ugly dress…

Every now and again, my friend waits until we’re paying at a till for the ‘I am visiting a friend and plan to spend tomorrow in my pyjamas binge watching tv and eating sweeties’ supplies, and she suddenly throws her arm around me and declares “he was a bastard anyhow, Tammster! You deserve better! or ‘I still can’t…

It it helps, try and imagine a mantis turned film-maker - very tall, very thin, very nattily dressed. And apparently he was so embarrassed he didn’t say anything, just dragged his foot in grim silence towards that distant door while the panel sat awkwardly and watched him.

I once had an interview with a ragingly infected earlobe (putting in earrings the night before, after not wearing earrings for years, is a bad choice), while buzzing like a kite on the first coffee I had for months (with a double espresso shot!), two days after my cousin’s extraordinarily unexpected funeral.

I’m from the UK, so I think the widespread ownership of guns in America is bizarre and bewildering. I’ve got no cultural attachment to the notion, at all. So I’m not the person to weigh in on the subject.