Thanks for the encouragement! They are really good kids... they are 4, 5, 7, so they are just STOKED for any adult who’ll play with them. His relationship with their Mom goes from okay-to-toxic, depending on what’s going on. I’m learning the hardest part is giving up that opportunity to have a baby based on economics…

Agree 100%. This article is about the author growing and learning how to have healthy relationships with men, so many of the comments make it seem like people only read the first half of the story then rushed to the comments to make judgements.

Did the people making negative comments actually read the whole essay?

One of my faves is to literally swat at boners. I am a metaphorical and literal boner killer and proud.

I’d like to assure everyone out there that, should you catch me with a boner, and poke that boner, I will simply laugh at being caught while turgid. #NobodyCaresAboutMyBoner

my life is pretty easy at the moment, but i appreciate your sympathies nonetheless. again this post is a limited criticism of brooks’s column itself, which does not mention anything about clinton’s record, and merely says she needs to open up and be warmer, and i personally find that remarkable

Seriously. I saw the headline and said it should read “Woman acquitted for justifiable homicide.”

yeah, i don’t disagree with you on the identity politics nightmare of the dem race right now at all, but it is still incredibly remarkable to me that david brooks pinpoints neither her record or her gender as the source of unlikability — and instead brings up the fact that she needs HOBBIES

This. We used to have some pranks at work. Like people saran wrapping chairs and small stuff like that. Then one person removed a chair wheel to my chair...and that ended that real quick.

I don’t think this is real - but it is still dangerous because millions of people are watching it and there may be a few who think it is both real and funny and they should try to recreate it.

I’m torn on which is more urgent: dousing herself in dairy or killing him. Her temporary insanity claim might be weakened if she waits.

That was my first reaction...she keeps her tampons out of the wrappers?

A prank is swapping all of your mate’s furniture around when he on holiday or covering his room is army men. It’s not physically or emotionally harming the woman you are supposed to love.

Perhaps if they tend to be clutterminded and think they have opened it themselves?

I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn’t insert a tampon where the wrapper was already open, unless it was an absolute emergency?

Maybe I’m just trying to convince myself that this didn’t really happen, but is it very likely anyone would insert a tampon they found unsealed?

Okay, you sadistic bastard. Some chilies can cause chemical burns. The vagina is a vulnerable body part with a delicately maintained ecosystem. Kindly stick that chili in your eye and think about what you've done.

UGH. Pranks that are either physically or emotionally hurtful are NEVER FUNNY. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

If this had happened to me, it wouldn’t be posted in the comedy section, it would be under crime because I surely would have killed him when I saw him holding out the pepper.