"Puberty" already makes my skin crawl enough! My dad pronounced it like "poo-burty" all the time and acccccckkkkkkk

This reminds me a lot of Kostnice Sedlec, just East of Prague. Bored, morbid priests, man...

It's a pleasure to see an Anna Holmes post, even if it just a book plug.

Heh, bookie — If I ever take my books to an accountant I'll have to explain all these "Green Infrastructure" expenses. *cough*

"Balancing the checkbook" is definitely becoming an outdated term, but tracking/balancing one's finances through online banking and the like is still necessary. We should definitely re-examine how we teach that type of stuff because it's a lot less necessary to know how to mechanically do the math (since online…

Well said. It's one thing to not know, it's another entirely to be proud of not knowing. And while this stuff may be relatively harmless in and of itself, it's hard not to tie it into the larger anti-intellectual / Know-Nothing political and cultural attitude in the US right now.

Yes! The top comments calling Grandpa out for "disowning his daughter" and being "unnecessarily harsh" seem to have not read to the end of the sentence. He clearly identifies a choice she made, identifies that she's sticking by that choice, and that as long as she doesn't reverse that choice she's no longer worth…

I've met people from tremendously tolerant, liberal families who found religion in their later life and became closed-minded bigots. The desire to rebel against your family and upbringing by being whatever they're not probably plays a big role.

Let's start where we agree — cishet people passing judgment on queer folks (or any other majority/minority relation you want to set up) for being "bad advocates" is harmful and unnecessary. I don't think anyone's doing that in this conversation, but I understand where you're coming from on that. When ally voices…

Barillophobia to the tune of Rihanna's Disturbia. PLEASE, DWV!

Number one, "it actually effects" every person — if you are the friend or parent of a person prevented from marrying the person they love for some bullshit law then your heart is heavy also. Number two, allies are important because they have the privilege to champion causes because they're not busy worrying about…

Ah, I understand where you're coming from. I understand the author's sentiment and what they're trying to communicate here, but I agree that we should work to find a less dismissive-sounding way of communicating that idea.

Absolutely, you just need to let me eat a slice every two or three months to make sure I haven't spontaneously started liking it :)

Huzzah for the voice of reason! I agree on mayo (and ask places to hold ketchup all the time).

It's one of the best things to dislike because I can always find a home for it. If you say "does anyone want my onions" you might not get a response, but "anyone want this avocado?" gets a quick reply.

Maybe if it's used hyperbolically, but in this case the man has just confessed to rape.

Right?! Keep liking what you like or don't — hell, ask politely if you can be accommodated — just don't expect the world to spin backwards because you don't like olives or whatever.

Yeah, everyone around me loves it so much that about once every two or three months I leave it on whatever I'm eating just to make sure. I'm just not a fan. It's not bad, per se (I really can't think of a vegetable that I flat-out won't eat) but the texture and fattiness along with a slightly grassy note just…

Taking the onion off a burger or sandwich is one thing but would you ask a place to give you soup or curry "without the onions?" There's reasonable and unreasonable. There's nothing wrong with having likes and dislikes — it's the expectation that those should be accommodated at all times that becomes problematic. …

Oh god, that is the absolute worst. Especially in less-developed and poorer areas I think it comes off as so self-obsessed. For most of the world it's a privilege to have any choice at all in what one is eating, and if you're accommodating guests and offering them food (even if you're paid to do so!) and the guest…