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It was Number Five. Number Five killed my brother.

Here where I’m from in the US, you occasionally hear a “y’alls” and now I’m going to start using it as a cultural gap between your dialect and mine.

In healthcare, in the US. I’ve had to do this. Last year, I spent 6 months doing it.

You really do wish you were dead.

I did not have the brain power to reply so thank you for doing it for me and all of those of us who find it too “normal” to try to answer this for the like 20th time.

I am dashing your hopes by replying! But I want to say you’ve grown up so well and have lots of stuff to be proud of. Maybe things didn’t go the way you hoped, but you did the best you could with what you had and what you knew at the time, and that makes you a good person in my book.

I also blame this for why my sense of civic duty exists, despite the obviously flawed and ofte. monstrous system I find myself in.

I think it was things like this, honestly, which shaped my sense of humor.

There’s an argument to be made that Rocko’s Modern Life was not for children, but it aired on Nickelodeon in the afternoon, so we watched it. And this is poignant as hell-

R-E-C-Y-C-L-E Recycle!
C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E Conserve!
Don’t you P-O-L-L-U-T-E. Pollute the rivers, sky, or sea. Or else you’re gonna get what you deserve

…I still sing it to myself sadly when I read the news sometimes.

I know I wasn’t the only person who expected some transphobic shit and was pleasantly surprised.

The message from the Elmo account, the follow-up and the Sesame Street account linking mental health resources is some of the most wholesome stuff I’ve seen in a while.

It’s easy to get in your feelings, and it would’ve been easy for a social media “win” to play into the doom and gloom or to add to it. Or even to ignore it! But the people responsible for those decisions definitely count as some of Mister Rogers’ helpers. I’m grateful for that.

I always said if I was ever given supreme executive authority, I would outlaw ads and then immediately step down. It would be my one move, and the world would be better for it.

You’ve gotten a ton of amazing answers but to help demonstrate the point made about there being as many opinions as they are people, I prefer my domestically submissive, sexually dominant partner. So there’s even more shades to consider.

Entirely by accident I assure you.

You’re welcome to weird up your ads, also.

I saw… that. But what could someone advertise about it! And that’s a curiosity those links don’t answer…

I wanted to see what kind of ads that might actually be since I have zero concept. I do not recommend typing “semen stealing” into Google innocently and hoping for an answer.

I’m going to have some weird ads now…

Yep. I was right. You turned a conversation about “women are being harrassed” into how upset you are that we aren’t talking about problems men face. If you want to advocate for the problems men face, actually do that, instead of bitching when we are discussing problems women face.

This is the most “not all men” answer I could ever imagine. You literally got angry at the data, not because there’s sexism, but because there are other men who exist in other places who aren’t sexist.

It’s well-documented that women don’t go into STEM. When data explains why women don’t go into STEM, getting pissy because there are men who are in other fields who aren’t sexist completely misses the entire goddamned point.

Whenever I administer medication I tell the patient what they’re taking as I hand it to them, and say, “Can you take this for me please?” I hold my hand out ready to take the empty pill cup from them so I can throw it away. There’s no room for interpretation of anything other than “take this now.”

What an insanely good game, and a blast from the past. Thank you for reminding me of it!