I´m a strict vegetarian of many decades now, but my pets eat meat because they are animals and I´m not an idiot. (I used to get so sketched out when their canned food would touch my fingers, but now I´m pretty whatever- so that´s good!)

“Yes, doc, I’m sure, I want the Martin Shkreli.”

What a flippant response with shades of bitterness and a whole speculative narrative you made up in your head. God forbid you make an effort to sympathize with this fellow human's traumatic medical experience because he was born male, or think about this experience for men. Or at least keep quiet and not mock it. A…

Hahaha, I'm so glad you noticed that too. Most awkwardly inappropriate cutaway reaction scene ever.

I get all that, but her's was the aggressive statement, not the response. Go back and read it again. It was mean and nasty. There's a difference between owning one's own experience by refusing to back down because of the pressure of social niceties and being gleefully sarcastic at someone else's misfortune. In fact, I…

I'm not talking about being nice to sad sack or creepy men, I'm talking about not letting being a Good Feminist obscure being a decent human being first and foremost. Nastiness and toxicity breed the same in the world, empathy and kindness do too. And I won't back down from that or apologize for that, no matter what…

Yeah, if a friend asks for your opinion and you sugarcoat things, sure, enabling. Telling someone nothing is their fault, sure. I'm sure this guy has problems. But your tone is so nasty and mocking that I think you do too. A little humanity and compassion goes along way.

I'm a regular Jez lady, not a trolling dude, and I think that was so mean. I seem to be in the minority, but I'm glad I'm not so cold-hearted. Both men and women experience sadness, loneliness, and self-doubt. Mocking people struggling with things is just cruel.

That was the reference they were making.

Haha!

I'm in immigrant anglophone, you dipshit. Quebecois is a culture. Read a book. Learn things. You're really not bright at all.

Thank you for your thanks. It's a damn shame and I still can't really believe how ignorant people can be even on this site. Live and learn, I guess.

If we made film and art and culture to what most kids know about anything or anyone that came before twenty years ago, every movie would have Napoleon riding around on dinosaurs with his best buddy Jesus. That is probably the worst standard of judgement for a good film or a public figure's relevance in cultural…

You said so many offensive things in there that I honestly don't think it's worth talking to you about it anymore. That entire first paragraph is outrageous. "Quebec is not an ethnic group. It's a province."

I think everyone is different about taste/wanting to get drunk quick/tolerance levels. I drink like a fish but I can't do shots either. Like I'd seriously drink five strong mixed cocktails much more easily than do one shot of the spirit that is in the cocktail.

I cried! Beautiful story and beautifully written. Btw, your biological mother sounds like the coolest woman ever. And she definitely has some psychic powers.

Aubry's from Quebec, Martinez is from France.

Aw, you're welcome. And I know, I've been amazed too. Like, I didn't know there was one group that it was fine to say nasty stuff about. On a site like this! (And clearly, not one of those people has any grasp of the history whatsoever, and yet feels free to run off at the mouth. Their heads would probably explode if…

I don't mean to be snarky and say "sigh", but, sigh. Each person who has responded to me has given a big long explanation justifying saying nasty things about an ethnic group because of x, y, and z. Rationalizations, personal anecdotes, etc. Simply try plugging in black people, Hispanics, gay people, or a group that…

I think you know what I mean. See my earlier comment: try replacing it with "Dominicans are all thieves", "Vietnamese people are dirty", "lesbians are ugly" or whatever you please, and tell me it's not offensive.