I really think we need to rekindle the art of self-editing — we can all communicate so easily now that sometimes I don’t think we put as much thought into what we want to achieve when we speak.

I thought the point of the Common Read program was that it isn’t just for English majors, so the snootiness about it seems particularly counterproductive to me.

I also don’t really care that Brooke Nelson doesn’t like Sarah Dessen, but why do all our thoughts like that have to be shared? What was the point of telling the journalist that? What was the point of including it in the article, if not to belittle Dessen and the books teen girls like? I certainly don’t want people to…

Honestly an absent parent is better than a present one who really sucks, so maybe it’s for the best. 

I know Matthew Perry has a history of addiction, but... he just looks like a pretty normal 50-ish guy who DGAF about fashion? I hadn’t seen the photo until now and I was expecting him to be in a vomit-stained shirt sitting in the gutter or something. He just looks a bit on the unkempt side. 

who hurt you 

I know someone who is moderately famous for artistic stuff and he now has a visible stress reaction to the mere mention of Twitter because people get so angry so quickly if they don’t get a response fast enough. Someone once compared him to ‘literal HIV’. Being well known in the age of social media seems awful. Give…

Yeah, when one half of a split is silent and the other is out there talking trash about them and taking effort to show off their new partner and how great they are, I usually assume the noisy half is the asshole. She’s giving me severe ‘show my ex how wrong they were’ vibes right now.

I think there’s a difference between ‘any candidate could randomly die’ and ‘guy who has already exceeded the average life expectancy just had a heart attack’, but I sincerely hope you’re right and that Sanders lives to 100 and sees out his vision.

I know his supporters really wanted him to be president, and they’re willing to risk his age to make that happen. I get that, he’s a great candidate otherwise. But I think about how quickly the presidency aged Obama — compare photos from 2008 with 2012 — and it honestly just feels a bit delusional to think that the…

Yeah, I already thought he was too old before the heart attack. Staying in the race after the heart attack honestly makes me question his sincerity about a movement that doesn’t depend on him. He could have accepted that his role would change, stepped back, thrown his weight behind Elizabeth Warren, and taken on an…

I think her teaching/professorial experience is probably really valuable when it comes to answering those kind of dumb questions without coming across as dismissive, because it’s such an essential skill in education. 

I’m really sorry about your dad and I’m totally with you on the idea that there are more female abusers of male victims out there than we realise — but the initial comment in this thread wasn’t productive because it labels a behaviour as suspicious when it is actually just a completely common phenomenon among abusive…

You might feel she’s one of the least talented cast members on The Office, but she wrote more episodes than any other writer on the show, and most of them were great ones, so maybe you should reconsider your opinion. 

I think we sometimes oversimplify the concept of believing women and feel bad if we don’t accept as fact every single accusation. Obviously not every single woman who has ever made a rape accusation has been telling the truth, but the overwhelming majority are. For me ‘believe women’ means to take every accusation as…

The article kind of makes it sound like Mindy was targeted because of her triple-credit, but doesn’t mention that Steve Carrell, BJ Novak, and Paul Lieberstein at the least would also have had a triple credit. 

Yeah, I feel like people are being hugely dismissive here just because they dislike her personally. Even if you give the Academy the benefit of the doubt that this was a purely unbiased attempt to cut down the list and she was chosen because she was most junior, surely we understand why as the only woman of colour on…

Social media would be virtually unusable without the block function. I hope this judge understands what he is getting into.

So specifically you’re envisioning that the doctor would somehow kill the foetus inside the womb and then either induce a stillborn labor or do a C-section to remove it?

I was kind of confused about the full term abortion thing. That would just be inducing labour, right...?