I’ve been a chair for various sessions and I always try to ask questions that I think are relevant and allow the speaker to actually expand on a topic or explain more in detail. I try to never ask “gotcha!” questions because that’s embarrassing and they suck. Questions can be constructively critical, but this…

Back in the early days of the internet, I remember being similarly amused by “useless websites”.  Sometimes, it’s just fun to see nonsense.

It took me 7-8 different doctors to find one who was okay with sterilizing me. I was often lectured and criticized, or accused of being a pill-seeker (what? I don’t want pills!).  I hope you found a better one, or someone who at least listens to what you want.

Pro-wrestling can come right after TV courts. TOT COURT

As someone who is firmly never going to have children, I understand your frustration in the way that people undermine your identity because of your lack of progeny - I’m a person, I’m a full-grown adult.  Some people think I should still “sit at the kids’ table” because I am clearly just a kid myself until I have one!

I didn’t want to put a number on it, but in my life, yeah, it’s been... way more men than I thought it would be. You aren’t “babysitting” your kid, and if you don’t know the basics of caring for your child, you’re probably not a very good parent. You should really know things like their bedtime routine, what foods…

I get the author’s frustration, in that a number of men kinda assume they don’t really need to do much until the baby is out, or even until the baby is walking.

This is what my friend did with her kids! They got to decide on like, two things that they wouldn’t eat. I think they were allowed to change it sometimes, but I can’t remember how.

My dad is far more the “Obama” type - he’s of the mindset that “this person is important to my daughter, so therefore, he’s important to me. I should get along with him.”. He did his best to bond with my sister’s ex-husband, despite the two of them having nothing in common.  I rarely bring partners home, but whenever…

Same. It is not on the victim to “fight” in the “right” way. You often just freeze (an incredibly common response - not just fight or flight), or try to convince yourself what is happening “isn’t that bad” or “it will be over soon”, especially when it’s an authority figure.

Same. I think of my younger self, who carried a magazine ad for Pride for 4 years, because seeing it so normalized meant so much to me. An ad like this would have been so meaningful.

I sing to my dog. She never appreciates it.

I have never been someone who saw war as glorious or anything, and have always sort of felt... not-great about the idea that it’s kind of “okay” to kill certain people. I understand that war is different, that perhaps you will also be killed, but I find it so frustrating that so many of those who are hurt or lose…

I teach in a vocational school (16-19 year-olds, and I am in my early 30s). Now, this is going to sound like tooting my own horn, but let me explain.

You’re right in that he didn’t make any overt threats. But a lot of women have experienced men getting retaliatory when they feel rejected. It’s really quite common to have someone say something like, “hey, you’re gorgeous/cute/whatever, I’d love to take you out sometime,” and then if you don’t answer or say “no…

Honestly, I say good for her. She’s been criticized as a self-absorbed, famous-for-being-famous celebrity (which, from what I know about the reality show, isn’t entirely an incorrect impression), and it seems she’s working to change that.

Same. What would I do with her if she were less of a potato?

I teach at a vocational school, and technically, I’m supposed to tell the students to take off their hats or whatever, but I honestly just don’t give a shit. Those rules are more for when they are working in the shop, and if they’re doing what I need them to do in class, then I am not going to get upset about a…

“toad-hag who knows a lot of fun facts about bog bodies” vibe going on

I was feeling much the same. Like, it’s fine to have preferences and whatnot, and obviously, this article is kind of a joking-not-joking thing, but still, it’s basically enforcing beauty standards, and that’s just not cool. If it were, “I love beards, here are great beards”, that’d be fine, but it’s “I don’t like what…