Yeah...that’s not even remotely true. It’s not an ageist slur. Boomer is a stand-in for ideological entrenchment. No one cares even remotely whether you’re 20 or 200. Boomer mentality is simply about being as wilfully myopic as humanly possible in regards to how your personal greed and insatiable desire to protect…

Gotta disagree hard on this one. IMO Jagged Little Pill holds up as a top 10 90s album. It’s a viscerally angry album and Alanis is SO GOOD at getting her emotions across.

I’ll second that. I have made peace with my choice to distance myself from my father when I realized that I had been backpedaling over lines in the sand for more than half my life and for my entire adult life. He’ll always be my father, and the yardstick by which I measure myself. But he is nothing like the man I…

Unsolicited advice from someone who survived a very necessary estrangement from her own mother: beware of anyone who attempts to convince you that you should be able to look past this. I wish someone had told me 20 years ago that “blood is not thicker than safety.” Thank you and good luck.

It encapsulte the history of American popular music? So that means the history of American popular music is built solely and entirely on African American influences?

We sang My Old Kentucky Home in glee club in N.J. in the 19490'-1950's. We had no idea what a darkie was. None. I guess we thought it was a blackbird of some kind. Little kids don’t ask. It was just a pleasant melody you could harmonize. Embarrassment came later.

This is what white people do, everyday in large and small ways to PoC. They antagonize and antagonize and antagonize you, it gives them a sense of false worth to feel better than. It’s their whole persona, being “better than”. “I may be poor, but at least I ain’t a nigger!” White people are fully aware of the…

I was thinking something like JavaScript would be a good choice since you can use it for front end and back end development.

Your sexuality, and how you manage it, is nobody’s business but your own. Nobody gets to tell you when the “right time” to come out is, and anyone who judges you is forgetting that in the not-so-distant past, being open about your lifestyle had very real, hurtful and sometimes violent consequences.

I commend you for your feedback. I spent the next 15 minutes trying to categorize his original argument. Because there isn't much content, I could only conclude that it could fall into either category, depending on how you parse his text vs understand the difference between the two techniques. Lacking as I am, I thank…

Coworker of the cosplayer; I saw the whole thing go down. So perhaps I can clarify a few things I’ve seen brought up in other comments:

You know, when I worked somewhere that didn’t allow facial hair per dress regulations, but had no regulations about hair length, I thought I was a rebel by growing my hair out as long as I could while keeping my beard just at the 5 o’clock shadow level all the time. I think June’s got me beat.

Actually, Hodor’s the one with... nevermind

White people who compare mild to moderate situations/annoyances to MLK’s struggle are the fucking worst.

Recovering bulimic—I was vegan for about 8 months and it was...unhealthy. I have to avoid restrictive “lifestyle” diets like the plague; it’s just too easy to make them an extension of compulsion.

Yeah. I tend to mind my own business about it but when a friend tells me they’re doing a ‘cleanse’ I have to work at biting my tongue about how unhealthy I actually think most cleanses are. I’m not always happy with how my body looks either, but I don’t think avoiding solid foods for a week is going to make it…

She’s not wrong. A multi-day cayenne pepper and lemon juice only ‘cleanse’ is to a person with disordered eating what a weekend long bender in Vegas would be for an alcoholic. It’s not healthy and the media should stop glorifying that type of thing.

I'm holding the opposite opinion on the article, I think. I agree with only technical aspects: the games could be harder, there could be less hand-holding, there should be more focus on a smaller item set. These are relatively minor, though, and not nearly as invasive as some other games (I just recently started…

I'm fine with people who like easy, medium, difficult, or whatever type of difficulty they prefer. What I hate is when people want to change one game into being more like something that's already out there.