It is just as dire as these women are telling you. We have to constant be on guard in our personal lives and at work because men can be so shitty. #Notallmen is not necessary to say; we know. That’s obvious. But so many men. Too many men. Is it most men? To some extent, yes. Not every man is a rapist or a stalker or…

What’s her background that makes her think a man would generally, believably be this manipulative, this needy?

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Try online dating for five minutes and come back with a corrected comment. Fabrication and bullying are par for the course among the straight men on those sites.

This is so meta. Teen girl needs to adopt male alter-ego to be taken seriously in baseball journalism, but adopts male alter-ego of a sketchy jerk, gets busted.

Men absolutely act like this. And not just millennials.

I think you tend to overcompensate though, when you’re clumsily mimicking something? She shot for the most overblown kind of man: horny, drunk, violent, possessive, because our culture says women are soft and gentle and big manly men are tough and possessive and always after sex. And she thought she had to be the…

Actually, if she truly is a sociopath, the last thing she should get is counseling:

Sure, you’ve known several this needy, but many many more who weren’t. So if you were aping male behaviour and inventing a character, wouldn’t you shoot for the average dude to be credible, rather than the extreme dark examples?

I’ve known several men this needy.

13-17 year olds don’t have a completely developed emotional system for dealing with relationships. That’s why we have laws to protect them from adult predators. She’s coming from a fucked up place, but she got into it as a child, and couldn’t figure out how to get out of it as an adult.

I think the power dynamics must have thrilled her, just as they thrill any man.

Does it give her a pass? I just read a long, damning expose of her behaviour that makes it almost impossible to think of her as anything but an abuser. It doesn’t seem like charges have been filed, however.

I was reading this story an hour or so ago, in the waiting room for my therapist, who specializes in gender, sexuality, and their intersection with personality disorders. I showed this to her and she just got a confused look on her face and goes, “yeah, that’s a stumper.”

Frankly, I think the appeal to misogyny is simply symptomatic of this poor kid’s intrinsic sociopathic manipulative streak. When caught, sociopaths typically have some reasonable sounding reason for the behavior, but under close scrutiny, it doesn’t hold up.

Her abuse of those women aside, it’s awful that a girl(or any woman, really) could feel that in order to write about a sport she clearly loves and be taken seriously she has to pose as a man.

A bar next to an office building was the natural pit stop for eveyone after office hours. I needed to do business with many of them, so one day I went to the bar early, introduced myself, ordered a drink, and tipped a $50. For the rest of eternity, no mater how busy, the bartender would leave the bar, come to my…

20 bucks to cut in line to get into a crowded bar? Not even when I was really playing the field would I want to go to a place like that.

1. Leaving removes the enabling behavior.

Calling somebody out for being an alcoholic isn’t criminal its compassionate.

Drinking regularly is one thing, but when it’s a compulsive behavior that leads to continued socially unacceptable behavior and destructive actions, you have a problem. Getting blackout drunk once in a while isn’t the problem, getting so fucked-in-half drunk that you’re pissing the bed 4 times a month and fighting…