YES. I hear this criticism of Kobe all the damn time because that man has nothing resembling false modesty - love him or hate him, he knows how talented and dedicated he is to the game, and you can kiss all 5 rings if you don’t like it.

My grandma was a grammar teacher (a canadian one, no less) and raised me in her grammar nazi (if by nazi you mean exceedingly polite elderly canadian orchid enthusiast) ways.

This is the thing - I’ve met my fair share of Felipes, and I was raised by a Canadian grammar/etiquette teacher (my gram is the best) who was huge on good manners. Manners dictate a polite response to any inquiry, so I politely responded. Nope, I was a bitch for wasting their time. No response? I was a bitch for not…

I, too, was disturbed by the ‘swapping one chemical for another’ thing. I haven’t had issues with drinking (despite an extensive family history and growing up with an alcoholic mother, so it’s always something I’m extremely careful monitoring in myself) but I’m in treatment for a number of mental disorders and taking…

Honestly, I think that rape is very very often (I’d go so far as to say in the majority of cases) exactly that: a way to compensate for perceived affronts to dominance/masculinity or displace insecurity about those things via taking what more masculine men are perceived to get, or are even owed (NO ONE is owed sex,…