You should've have told her you're worried about the domestic abuse that's about to litter her stupid racist FACE. -___________-

'his'?

No, seriously, you're telling me that the most diverse group, intellectually, in the whole world, is white males? Maybe historically, because others weren't given much of a platform or even a chance to be literate... but if you claim this is the case today, then you're exactly the sort of person that might benefit…

Signed,

Wah, did I make you read too much? Sorry that a calm, and relatively kind, response is so difficult for you to understand. Bye, asshole!

Wow, two people sharing an opinion in a long, convoluted kinja thread - shocking, it's never happened before.

I once did an experiment with this as a teenager. It wasn't particularly scientific, but someone tried to tell me that he could just *tell* when it was a woman writing and he did not like it! Ever! So I picked out passages from several novels by both men and women and asked him to identify if the author was a man or a…

How attached are you to this boyfriend? Like, enough to re-train him? Because damn is that a warning sign. I've yet to know a guy that says things like that ("Oh I just don't like women writers!" or "Women just aren't as good at x y z" <-the exception maybe being like "hard physical labor," and even then, it really…

The kind of people that get rubbed the wrong way because someone makes a choice not to read white men are the kind of people that have no problem with white men dominating the publishing industry. Weirdly enough, many of them turn out to be... white men.

Yep. My other big issue is that I literally can't remember most of my childhood, and I don't know if it was the trauma of moving countries back and forth several times before the age of 7 or what, and I have these memories of being held down so that my dad could punch me in the face until my nose bled. My mom insists…

I posted about this earlier, but I got hit as a kid, and all it taught be was that getting hit was the price I had to pay in order to do what I wanted. I was an annoyingly smart child, though (it's evened out since and I am perfectly average, but at the time, I was far more manipulative than anyone gave me credit for).

I was hit as a kid and honestly, the only thing it taught me was that if I wanted to do whatever I want, that was the price to pay. I doubt I'd hit my kids, NOT because I think smacking a child every so often constitutes as abuse (I'm sorry, but whoever says that has never been around a child for an extended period of…

Don't disagree with you on most things, but wanted to point this out -

It's sad that I felt the need to stop and comment to congratulate you for not being an asshole, but seriously, I'm not being sarcastic. thank you for not being an asshole. It's nice to know after reading this that at least some people are probably not secretly sociopaths.

First of all, I'm sorry for the pain that your family has gone through. I sympathize with these parents, and I certainly think it's reasonable to encourage caution when giving vaccinations to toddlers, especially when there is a family history of any kind of disorders that may be triggered by the vaccine (and I…

I'm about to sound like a total asshole, BUT... I kind of really want some of the children of these anti-vaccine types to get smallpox and measles and all those other diseases that have been effectively eradicated. I mean, I'm not saying I want actual, concrete children to get sick or die, but I guess, just... I want…

Nobody is saying that some people don't have reactions to vaccines. It's just that those reactions tend to be pretty mild and MUCH better than the disease they are preventing. Alternatively, if someone has a compromised immune system that doesn't allow them to take vaccines (because yes, they are not for everyone!)…

My fiance and saw someone using one of these on the subway. He was so genuinely confused about it ("what are those people doing? why is their phone on a stick?"), it was fucking adorable.

I'm sorry about your friend's experience. Something similar happened to me, and it's rape, and I wouldn't acknowledge it as such for a long time. Admitting it was rape made me feel like I was acting the victim, and I know that's not true now, but it was hard to process as a 20 year old.

But *which* big 10, northern school?