I'm surprised to hear all this drama and controversy over the naming thing. I'm one of the magical 4% with their mother's last name, and as far as I know, it's never been an issue. My parents agreed that the simplest compromise was to agree that the boys would take my dad's name, the girls would take my mom's name,…

What kind of a sick person cons another human being into injecting themselves with bathroom caulk for money?? That's just indescribably awful.

Yes, and as we all know, the punishment for having an ego should be to get slammed into a car and dragged off. Do you hear yourself? "They can do whatever they want, do what they say, or you get the shit kicked out of you, what do you expect?" Lovely democratic society you have there. Your bootlicking attitude…

Welcome to the scary-ass distopia of what was once America, where a cop not liking your tone of voice has the right to slam you against a fucking car, and people are so cowed and brainwashed that they don't even understand that it's wrong any more.

If they have something better to do then the thoroughly helpful task of attacking people for walking around construction sites, I think we all would probably prefer they go do that, yes.

I kind of think it's more important for cops to not go around beating the shit out of people for nothing than for cops to make sure everybody knows they're the toughest sons of bitches with the biggest dicks around. So she sasses him and he walks away... what is lost here, exactly? Some dickhead bully's sense of…

Yeah, well, I'm sick of playing political diplomat and ignoring the truth. Conservatives are generally racist, and anyone who actually understands racism has observed this. They're also either stupid, or unempathetic, or both. If you're a kind hearted conservative, you're stupid because conservatisim is not kind. If…

How sad that you have been brainwashed so far with this "rules is rules" jargon that you think that just because someone is wearing a uniform, they have the right to beat a private citizen for anything that might come out of her mouth. A cop decides to unduly harass someone on the street? She'd better toe the line and…

Aren't there any murders or something for these gentlemen to deal with? They must be extremely bored if they feel the need to chase down a woman and beat her for walking around a construction area. Christ.

There is not a single incidence of male bashing on this entire thread. This is a website aimed predominantly at women, and the topic is bad online dating experiences, so mostly women are responding with stories of their bad dating experiences. If you see male bashing, it is your issue and you need to work on your…

Poor guy. I mean, I totally understand where you are coming from and how awkward that must have been, but I can't help feeling bad for him... he sounds messed up.

Yeah, exactly. Like, why do you care SO MUCH? Worst case scenario, you're a psycho serial killer who wants to keep my face in a jar, best case scenario, you're just obsessively controlling and can't handle a woman saying 'no' to you about even the simplest things. Neither of these scenarios describe men I want to date.

It is a pretty disturbing spectacle. I find it like a train wreck, though — you just can't look away. I'm writing a play about different kinds of self destructive online behaviours, and so I wanted to research internet trolling - why people do it, where does the impulse come from... I ended up there, and it's…

Classy AND witty! Charming.

Are you from WizardChan? Just curious. I've been researching there recently, and you fit the profile I've been compiling.

That sounds shitty, but you may have dodged one hell of a bullet there. This thing about giving you orders and "not telling him what he likes" which presumably means he does, in fact, like shy and quiet girls... not a bad sign in and of itself, but combine an aggressive, rude, controlling personality with an…

I gave up on online dating pretty quick, but I did have one incident where, after combing through creepy message after creepy message, I finally got a message from a guy that seemed fairly reasonable. We chatted a bit, he seemed sane and funny, and I thought, why not, lets get coffee, what the hell. But then it came…

Sadly, you may be right.

What he does is his business, what we pay attention to is ours. He may not have been forced — although, with such a trauma happening in his life so recently, and half the country hating him and believing his parenting lead to those deaths, you might argue that he's under a lot of pressure and not in a good frame of…

Of course he's haunted; and I personally find it a little sleazy that we're all perched on the edge of our seats ready to hear every detail of the pain he and his family are going through. Of course he's upset and traumatized and whatever else... can we maybe show an ounce of restraint and not showcase that on TV?