So as a 27-year-old man, he went on long, bigoted rants (seriously, check the screenshots) because he thought it was funny that racist and sexist drivel upset people?

Personal growth is not a token that you get to redeem in the Do-Over Machine. 

Men, too. Especially when it turns out that they aren’t her only FWB.

Understand, they don’t really believe the correct solution to your boss putting a hand on your waist or making a creepy comment is “kick him in the nuts”. What they really mean is that these women are lying liars who deserved it because they didn’t “fight back”.

Come on now. He’s not the sole decider, but he IS deciding.

“Those jobs are just for high-school kids” really means that the families of those kids are subsidizing the labor costs of global billion-dollar corporations.

Then call it what is is - a wage gap. “Labor shortage” is management’s buzzphrase for a reason; it suggests that the problem is on the workers’ side, and can mean both that there simply aren’t enough actual workers out there at any price, or that there could be such workers but they’re lazy and selfish.

But still, what? It’s not realistic, period. Wage minimums are necessary because workers don’t just get to ‘decide’ what their labor is worth. And they’re necessary because individual states have such shitty minimum wage laws. Federal minimums establish a floor.

It’s not a labor shortage. Please don’t buy into their framing.

Canadians would like you to forget how long they kept Harper in power, not to mention the Fords.

Acting like a pretty typical 12-year-old is my guess. At that age they’re awash in hormones and they haven’t figured out what to do with them, plus they’re usually in middle school, which is a fucking snakepit by design, so it’s unsurprising a lot of them are giant pains in the ass at that age.

It really is possible for him both to be a spiteful, immature asshole, and for him to be 100% truthful about this anecdote.

He didn’t cut her off, either - he says that he helped her out when she had trouble with the IRS, which is frankly a much bigger deal than buying her expensive toys.

“The best thing” for whom?

Why? 

It’s not that the youths all have money, it’s that the norm for “fancy-ass weddings” is now the multiday destination trip.

I have unfortunate news for you, which is that the whole week long destination extravaganza with the besties is very, very normal among the youths. I also want to go lie down and nap thinking about it, but she is in no way a pioneer of event planning on this.

I mean, okay? She’s not going to be a Peloton instructor her whole life. As long as her pitching doesn’t work its way into her classes, and she’s not giving toxic advise or selling snake oil, I say good for her. And no, she’s not one of my fave instructors either.

Hey, you’re having so much fun arguing with an imaginary version of me and putting arguments in my mouth so you can scream them down, I wouldn’t dream of interrupting you.

They really do prize backbiting over efficiency, don’t they?