True story: I briefly dated a guy who was libertarian, drove a red sports car and was an only child from a rich town. He wanted to be a lawyer for corporations to protect them from evil, evil unions. We didn’t work out primarily for these reasons although he was otherwise very handsome and nice. Years later I find out…

Can we get Jezebel to interview you about this because that’s amazing

That’s adorable. I would have been very amused and proud were I your parent.

Love how the message gets across so efficiently. A++

I heartily guffawed way too loudly on a quiet European train.

Oh man yeah, I didn’t think about Castro, but that’s a perfect example of how horrendous things can happen right under people’s noses because the perpetrator is generally normal-appearing.

What are they, scientologists?

I agree. I look at all these “raw vegan” diets and think nooooo what are you doing humans are meant to cook food to obtain all our nutrients! Literally! Like there’s no evidence that we can survive long term without cooked food!

Sign me the fuck up.

Ron Funches amazing laugh gives me hope.

Agree with trusting your gut. If you’re really concerned you can always call in an anonymous tip that he gives off weird vibes around children and while they can’t act on that, if they get more than one tip, or he gets caught, the tip will help to convict.

Exactly. I think we set ourselves and our expectations to the norm, because who would think “oh yeah, he’s on the computer at night/while I’m at work looking at porn with children.” I think people underestimate how good pathological liars can be at what they do. Even the neighbors of famed serial killers have said…

I saw it in middle school and thought it was hot garbage. I might have to try again now that I know it was supposed to be satire. My male friends revered that movie, but I don’t think it was because the understood the meta message.

I tried this series in high school and even then I thought it was immature and ridiculous. I got about a book and a half in trying to understand what my friend liked about it before I gave up.

Like Hammaspeikko says, I would guess a plea deal.

I think what’s so unsettling about it is how it interrupts our ideas of what a bona fide monster looks like. It hits uncomfortably close to home when people who have committed terrible atrocities do normal things, as though they’re not murdering millions of people some miles away. It makes it feel like that kind of…

I think Ron was kind of supposed to be the Samwise Gamgee of the trio, the somewhat normal but still valuable through his humanity character, but he never really got to shine in the books or the movies.

To be fair, even J.K. Rowling regrets having them get together, in the end — books or no. She saw what we all did, which was that Ron and Hermione had a plausible young-love relationship but they’re a terrible fit long-term, per the epilogue.

Frankly I like them better than the original movie wands. They always looked stumpy and awkward to me. Before the movies I always saw the wands as slender, beautiful objects rather than crooked pieces of knotty wood.