If the train is empty, it's acceptable. If the train is filling up, move your fucking bag.

@bogartcat I found your commenter.

I'm sorry, were you talking to me? I was looking at pictures of shoes on Pinterest. You know. Where ladies go. For their lady interests.

Handbags definitely most often stay in a woman's hands, but rudeness knows no gender when it comes to using seat space for bags, third legs and other shit. There's a lot of discourtesy to go around.

I will confess to putting my backpack on the seat beside me. In my defense, when the train pulls into a station, I put that pack on my lap or between my feet until everyone has boarded and taken a seat.

Well, women (and men, for that matter) shouldn't take up an extra seat with purses or other bags. But I agree with you that the ball airer-outers are way more common than the space-hogging bag holders.

You know, I'd make you a flow chart, but I know women are terrible at spatial reasoning, even when you make everything shades of pink!

I'm so disappointed right now that "meatplane" is just a nerdy word for real life, instead of an actual plane made of meat lashed together with intestines. If I were Satan, I would only fly on Meat Force One.

Cue guys complaining about women 's purses and shopping bags taking up extra space and how they are being discriminated against, because that totally happens just as often and is totally comparable even though it involves an actual increase in overall mass, rather than the spreading of mass over the largest possible…

But if there's no winning, how can we be losers? Please help me understand. Use illustrations in pretty colors. I am a lady after all, and a feminist, so I need things spelled out really slowly.

The biggest part I'm calling bullshit on is that he has a girlfriend.

It's almost as if there is no winner's line with trolly bastards...

So a pretty common troll retort around these parts is 'why don't you do something to help people out in real life instead of just complaining on the internet?' I've seen some variation of this cry tons of times over the years. I literally just got a response along this line last week.

You should have mentioned this when we were bitching for more diversity amongst the staff.

I am a baby otter.

The replies are pretty heartening

Full disclosure: I'm only pretending to be a man. I'm actually a footstool.

NO WE ARE AWFUL FEMINAZIS ... who make a habit of doing what we can to help other people in need from time to time. Just the worst, really. Truly awful.

That's way too much cheekbones for one family. Their offspring will probably be a high elf who shall herald the return of the Eldar onto Middle-Earth.