OK so maybe you're right and I misdiagnosed the history. I still think it's way more difficult than it should be to have someone involuntarily committed. I'm not saying we should lock up everybody and throw away the key though.

Jesus Christ man, what are you doing in the bathroom? If my wife only cleaned the bathroom I'd say she wasn't pulling her own weight.

It's that, and this is just a stupid canned joke that's way played out. My god, I'm tired of hearing lazy shit like this. It doesn't come off as relatable, it comes off as stupid.

I see this a lot with my upper middle class friends. Their parents are not necessarily rich, but they have good professional jobs, and have been able to afford hired help for so many years that they forget that they need to teach their children these basic skills for when they go off to college and live on their own.

Yeah, that's exactly the thing. People sometimes assume I mean becoming exactly like me (I've seen every episode of Good Eats and am obsessed with America's Test Kitchen, that sort of thing).

Heh. I feel like any day now the gender police will arrest me and wife. She loves to bake, and is a skilled cook, but I do about 75% of the cooking. I'm also the dishwasher and laundry guru. My wife does most of the handiwork-we're about even when it comes to technical knowledge, maybe slight advantage to her. But she…

I mean, not everyone is lucky enough to have good parents. But actually, the people I know who came from shitty homes learned how to be self-sufficient, so I actually think you're right, it's almost always the sign of mediocre parents as opposed to outright terrible ones.

I never understood men who took pride in *not* being able to cook their own meals or do laundry. Like, why would you take pride in not having a skill? I can cook my own meals and do my own laundry and do my own cleaning. I'm a self-sufficient man. How is that not *more* manly than "Hurr hurr I can't cook cuz it's for…

What do you mean by turned himself in? That he was a suspect and he went in voluntarily or that he "turned himself in" as in he confessed? Well if you're a named suspect and the police are actively looking for you, turning yourself in is often a good idea and is not in itself evidence of guilt. If I were falsely…

Because lots of people tend to have a simple, unintelligent fetishization of freedom. Not that it's bad, but that any restriction on an individual = wrong. It's damaging.

You made a factual correction that was of little utility. Of course you're being called out

Says the mental health professional. Oh wait, no, just a commenter. Also, way to essentialize mental illness.

You don't have to take the MPRE in New Jersey either. Insert joke.

I think it's just an old tradition. I don't think the Socratic method helped me think on my feet or improved my critical thinking or communicating skills and no one else I know thinks that. I learned how to think on my feet by being thrown into the fire at my first jobs, and the latter are better developed in small…

Also, I love Scandal, but can there be at least ONE decent person I can root for. I feel like the show and fandom sometimes whitewashes how everyone on that show, not just Cyrus and Olivia's dad, are basically moral monsters. I mean, it's not even shades of grey, people are complex-they're straight up objectively…

And the kicker is, it's not even interesting reading. Going from a senior thesis and then awesome grad school seminars to reading fucking casebooks was intellectually stultifying. My god.

You're a better student than I am. After barely surviving 1L with my sanity and a fistful of antidepressants I, vowed one thing for the rest of my time there: Never again. Never again would I allow myself to succumb to that stress. So I took it way the fuck easy the next two years.

I was not clinically depressed when I entered law school. I was by the end of my first semester. I hated everyone in my section-why did every other section seem so much more chill? And the cliques. The fucking cliques. Like going back to high school. We even had lockers! College felt like such an upgrade from high…

Did you ever see this? It's a Lego Hearsay Exception video. Catchy song.

Oh dude, where's your imagination. I'd love to watch a Federalist Society farce. My god they could use a good slaying.