Trigg turns out to be a real name. It’s a variant of Trygve, which is also spelled Triggr. It’s a common name in Norway.

Part of the reason for there being so much crazy over this one incident may be due to the police saying it might be a bomb doing absolutely nothing that would back up their initial explanations for why they singled this kid out for harassment and violation of his constitutional rights. The story has now gone to “oh,…

Anybody else think this is a case of falling in love with someone who looks just like you taken WAY TOO DAMN FAR?!?!

And this woman was going to be Vice-President.

a homemade “clock” that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told “if you see something, say something!”)

Claire, no, honey NO

I’m in my 30s in if some guy I like starts his “looking for” age range too low, he immediately goes to the hidden profile pile. I have this idea that they’re into manipulating people or treating their partners like infants and that’s fucking creepy.

They’re quite good. I caught them at Concert Venue in City, State, where they played their all-time best, ‘Number One Hit.’

But there’s always room for the irascible, comedy-relief, ever-interfering spinster!

Twenty something year olds I AM SO SORRY that old dudes are contacting you. Eew, you have to deal with that. I’m in my mid thirties and NO ONE is contacting me. It’s great spending Saturday nights shampooing my cat. I got her tropical breeze shampoo so when she sits on my chest while I watch netflix it’s ALMOST like…

I think that most of people that want someone decades younger want a trophy, not a relationship.

PEOPLE TELL ME I LOOK LIKE I AM 25 LIKE ALL THE TIME GIRL. I AM FUN AND ACTIVE. A YOUNG SOUL. JUST GIVE ME A CHANCE GIRL.

I dunno man. Are you sure you shouldn’t just pack it in? 26 is like, near death.

But you are calling them dumb. The widespread use of first names for adults is a very upper middle class white convention and reflects how there are a lot of people whose power is assumed a priori. Other people come into these conversations from different power positions and different and often more marginalised…

You should address people as they wish to be addressed. Just ask ‘em.

Intimacy/familiarity is a great way to explain this. At any point if distance is needed between two conversational partners, using a more formal address is completely appropriate. See: teacher/student.

These kinds of pieces come up from time to time and they always miss the most important part: teach your kids to ask what someone wants to be called, then call them that. They prefer Mrs. Snoghorn you call them Mrs. Snoghorn. They prefer Fat Amy, you call them Fat Amy. True etiquette is not calling someone something…

I’m starting to think there’s something to this. Like when Obama was elected and everyone was like “Well that’s just because he’s black!” People said the same thing about Hilary, “You’re just going to vote for her because she’s a woman!”

Exactly! I will vote for a pro-choice man over an anti-choice woman every single time. I will vote for a man who advocates for women’s rights over a woman whose policies harm other women. As Madeline Albright said, there is a place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

It’s like the NYT doesn’t even understand the concept of internalised misogyny.