In a speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar discussed the Islamophobia Muslims received after 9/11, as many hateful racists associated every Muslim with the attack. On Thursday, The New York Post decided to prove her point with a horrific cover associating her with the attack.

Here's Omar's full quote:

"[The Council on American-Islamic Relations] was founded after 9/11 because they recognised that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."

And here's what The Post ran with:

Right-wing media, and its members of Congress, decided to pluck out Omar's "some people who did something" clause and pretend it was an attempt to downplay the biggest terrorist attack on American soil in history, rather than its intended use of explaining that innocent Muslims are innocent.

Without quoting The Post or fellow congressperson Dan Crenshaw, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (ever heard of her?) pointed out the hypocrisy behind the anti-Omar crusade.

According to a firefighter who survived 9/11, Crenshaw is "too busy" tweeting about Omar to discuss victim benefits.

Crenshaw has yet to support renewing the Victim Compensation Fund, a fund which compensates victims, but I'm sure 9/11 survivors appreciate all he is doing to whip up hate.

Just last week, the FBI arrested a man for allegedly threatening to murder Omar, and since then, the rhetoric has only gotten worse.

Omar responded to the attacks, calling the dangerous incitement "dangerous incitement."

She also pointed out that President George W. Bush used the same language as her, referring to Al Qaeda as "people,"

What kind of person would look at a terrorist attack and think, "very fine people on both sides"?

Not Rep. Omar.

The differences between how we talk about professional women and men is stark, to say the very least. The deeply entrenched double standards are so omniscient there are countless subtleties most of us don't notice, even in a culture where its become increasingly normal to talk about sexism.

Sometimes, the best way to pull back the wool and really see the absurd ways women are talked about, is to flip the script and gender swap the same sentiments.

The satirical shirt company Man Who Has It All does precisely this, both through satirical apparel and Twitter discussions about "men in the workplace."

One of the best parts of Man Who Has It All's internet presence, is how consistently funny the comments are. When the company delivers the initial dose of satire, the followers are quick to fill in the blanks with all the absurd sounding comments men commonly leave about professional women.

Most of the shirts from Man Who Has It All plays on the ways we title career woman as female scientists, female doctors, female lawyers, instead of just scientists, doctors, and lawyers.

In this gender swapped world, the shirts for men instead say male scientist, while the women's shirts merely say scientist. This simple switcheroo easily points out the absurdity of gendering women in their own areas of expertise.

The comments fully roasted all of the typical responses to women in the workplace, and the many ways coded condescension is such a big part of it.

Naturally, people were also quick to write long, satirical diatribes about how men in the workplace will surely lose their masculinity. Also, the ways making shirts for men costs designers more time and effort.

If you ever need a break from the endless stream of dismal hatred in the news, you may want to check out one of these many refreshing satirical threads.

Gawking at celebrities is something everyone enjoys...except the celebrities.

Writer Michael Segalov kicked off a viral thread on Twitter when he posted about the time he made eye contact with Hugh Grant, who proceeded to make a funny face that was likely as funny as his performance in Paddington 2.

We don't know if these anecdotes are real, but we definitely know that they're entertaining.

1. This story ages like a fine Goldblum.

2. But are you REALLY Princess Anna?

3. I hope OJ's girlfriend is still alive.

4. A totaly C-wordy move.

5. An apple a day keeps Lorne Michaels away.

6. Schwarzenegger is a calming presence.

7. Mork was a mensch.

8. Well we can't all have cool names like Hannibal.

9. It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with an S!

10. The best art is ephemeral.

11. Hey girl.

12. ♫ Stop at the red light ♫

13. "Michelle? My name's Michelle now."

14. Make lemonade.

15. That's what friends are for.

16. Almost got bended by Beckham.

17. Tywin Lannister sends his regards.

Bonus: she's not a Normal, but this is the absolute best one.

Relationships can be complicated. Though I wish familial and platonic connections were given the same consideration, romantic and sexual ones account for much of our focus as adults. That makes sense considering we tend to co-habitate with a partner, forge close emotional bonds with them, and sometimes reproduce and co-parent with them. It's a lot to think about and this type of relationship can be fraught with tension.

Reddit/relationship_advice is a repository of worst-case relationship scenarios, so I love to scroll through and learn more about couples' lives going south. Is it schadenfreude? Absolutely. Will I ever stop? No ma'am, and especially not when a story's this batsh*t crazy.

One hapless man turned to the forum seeking advice re: his current situation. He's been resentful of his wife ever since she was sued, not least because he's the financial breadwinner and she can't contribute nearly as much to their legal bills. Fine. Here's the wild part: he lays out the whole backstory, explaining what she did to incite legal action. And y'all? Ends up he buried the lede big time because THIS is what I stay Extremely Online for:

As the title states my wife was recently sued, she lost and we had to pay. The money is a significant amount for us, we didn’t have much in savings or our emergency fund to begin with, and both of those accounts are now empty.

My currently problem is trying to move past the resentment and anger I’m feeling towards my wife. Until now I’ve always felt like we were a partnership in our marriage. But, since I’m the breadwinner I can’t help but to feel like I’m spending "my" money on something that isn’t my fault. I’ve had no problem paying the mortgage, and taking care of various financial burdens that come with being a married homeowner. However, I have been the only one to put money aside in our savings and other accounts to prepare for an emergency - like a totaled car, someone loses their job, medical bills, or an act of god… not a stupid lawsuit where I know my wife is guilty. She has a part time job and doesn’t make much money, but pays for smaller things when she can (like groceries and some random bills), but she does take care of a lot of cooking, cleaning and caring for our pets.

What did my wife do? (Note: I had no idea this was going on while it was happening).

She used linkedin to find her former ex best friend, she ended up creating a realistic looking fake linkedin profile with a vague occupation of ‘recruiter’. My wife ended up sending this ex-best friend, "Laura" a few messages pretending to be a recruiter in her line of work. Laura finally responded thinking that this recruiter was real, my wife wanted her phone number but Laura gave her a personal email address instead. My wife created a second fake linkedin profile and started to send messages to people with similar titles as Laura at her company. These messages said derogatory things about Laura, a mixture of truthful things but embarrassing and just fabricated bullshit to make Laura look bad. Her manager got one of these messages that claimed that Laura was a heavy drug user. Laura's manager talked to her about these messages and he felt like the messages were bizarre and seemed like someone was trying to troll or harass Laura. Well, Laura team had her back and helped her saved these messages. Not only that, but Laura requested that she be drug tested anyway, to provide further evidence that she was clean. My wife didn’t know this at this point, but Laura was pregnant. Several of her coworkers, including her manager testified on Laura behalf.

Using the personal email address she got from the fake recruiter profile, she was able to find a few social media platforms Laura was on and was able to figure out her husbands name. She did some more internet sleuthing and found Laura's husband on facebook. Laura's husband didn’t have much on his facebook profile, but you could see his business email address on it. My wife sent him an email claiming that Laura was cheating on him. The husband confronted Laura about this email and Laura encouraged him to keep responding to this person, and save the messages, as well as to start asking specific questions about this supposed affair. My wife thought she was being clever and ended up telling the husband that Laura was cheating on him during the work week, she even gave him specific dates. What she didn’t realize was Laura had something turned on in google maps where it keeps years worth of historical gps data. Some of the dates my wife gave him also happened to be days where they both worked from home together. She also ended up giving him dates during a time they were on vacation together. Laura had her husband keep responding as much as possible to my wife and to backup all correspondence.

My wife was able to find out when and where the baby shower was going to be. One of Laura friends had created a public registry for her and had the invitation online. My wife decided to show up unannounced (the baby shower took place in a semi-public place, they had rented out an area connected to the public business.) She did not make herself known immediately. Instead she looked for patrons that were entering and exiting the rented out room. She was able to get the attention of a few guests that had never met her and tried to gossip about Laura - my wife was telling people that Laura didn’t actually know who the father was, among other things. This was at an event where her husband was at as well. The word got back around to Laura and she spotted my wife and apparently immediately put together all the pieces of what happened.

I’m leaving a fair amount of information out - My wife was able to find phone numbers, social media accounts and email for other people in Laura circle and sent them messages about Laura on multiple occasions. All the messages were trying to paint Laura in an extremely derogatory light. All the events I’ve mentioned so far took place over a year or so. My wife didn’t think to mask her IP address, so it was pretty easy to find out that all of these made up messages came from the same IP address, ours. Many of Laura's friends and family testified on her behalf, Laura had everyone saved as much digital evidence as possible - and it was a lot.

Laura and her husband hired a lawyer and decided to sue to my wife. They had ample evidence against her. All the saved messages, close friends and even her manager spoke on her behalf, she showed that she went to see a therapist once all the harassment started because she was depressed and anxious, she showed that she and her husband went to counseling after the accusations of her cheating. She even went above and beyond and had more drug tests done to show she was clean and my wife’s accusations were 100% false, and even had a paternity test done to show that my wife was again wrong and chose to lie.

I honestly felt awful for Laura, there were lots of tears on her end. You could tell how much emotional stress she had gone through. She said that being pregnant during the majority of this was absolutely horrific and was worried the stress and anxiety would somehow hurt her baby. She was pained that her one and only baby shower was ruined by my wife and that was something that could never be truly repaid or made up for. And that my wife’s harassment continued even after Laura gave birth and was trying to manage a newborn child.

My wife has never done anything this crazy before. I knew she could be a little petty and jealous of others, especially people she use to be friends with in the past, but it was only talk - no action. We’ve had a very happy marriage otherwise, we rarely fight, have a lot in common, we have a lot of fun together. But, she really fucked up this time. I don’t know how to move forward. I know someone is going to suggest therapy, but I really want to start building up an emergency fund again. We’re pretty screwed financially for awhile.

Behold, one of the bleakest tl;dr addendums of all time:

tl;dr Wife was sued by her former best friend, I emptied out all of our savings and sold a few things to pay for everything. I need help managing my resentment towards my wife and to move past this. Funds are low and we can't afford therapy right now. What can we do to move forward?

Have you collected yourself yet? Good. Because people had reactions, and you need to read them:

That is absolutely not normal and your wife clearly has some serious issues that I think you (and she, obviously) need to start addressing. That level of harassment, and the duration of it is frankly terrifying, and I feel like you should be concentrating on dealing with that, rather than just the financial fallout.

-scelestus66

'That level of harassment, and the duration of it'

When I first started reading about his wife making a fake LinkedIn account I thought this just broke some kind of laws and she was sued by a company or something.

Then I kept reading.

Then I couldn't stop reading.

I've read some messed up stuff on reddit but this level, duration and type of harassment somehow made it one of the biggest trainwrecks I have ever seen.

Christ, fuck the emergency funds. I love my husband very much but if I found out he did half of what your wife did, I could not lawyer up, lock down my stuff, get a protective order and file for divorce fast enough. I would fear deeply for my career, my reputation, and my future.

Laura's got material for therapy for the rest of her life, to say the least, and I feel so terrible for her and her loved ones. Who I hope all have ROs against your wife.

-janebirkin

Wife's sleuthing skills: 8/10

Wife's petty level: 10/10

Wife's sanity level: -999/10

-Retro21

Seriously. The thought and effort she put into this is incredible. OP says there was no action but I disagree. Showing up at a baby shower and pursing Laura’s husband and manager is action to me. She needs help. Maybe with the lawsuit over and the harassment ending, she will have time to work full time and can pay for her own therapy.

-sugarshax

Dude, that is a crazy story. The amount of time she spent doing this versus spending time with you, working or anything otherwise constructive is insane. For sure she needs therapy. You would be completely Justified if you wanted to leave her now.

-mysecret8account

Holy shit, what your wife did was extreme and pretty terrible. You SHOULD be feeling resentment towards her. She should be finding extra work and paying the debt off herself. This isn't on you.

I can tell you if it was me, I am not sure I could get past it and I sure as hell would't be paying financially for her deliberate and sustained harassment of someone.

-Mention-It-ALL

My takeaway from all this insanity? There's solace in remaining single. Think about it: I can't dive into the dating pool right now knowing mentally-addled sharks like the OP's wife are swimming around, looking for their next victims. I'm staying onshore in a cute one-piece, margarita in hand.

If your ex is a total garbage fire, you will totally relate to these hilariously savage memes.

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THE GOOD NEWS

A team-wide response shows that employers are taking mental health days seriously — and commending employees for using them.

Madalyn Parker was more honest than many employees would be when she sent an email to her boss and co-workers letting them know she was taking two days off to address her mental health. The short, candid message didn’t get into specifics, but many, especially those needing to tend to their mental health, would hesitate in addressing what remains a stigmatized issue in the workplace and throughout society.

Fortunately for Madalyn and those who depend on the benefits mental health days provide, her boss was quick to push any awkwardness aside and thank her for helping “cut through the stigma.”

Madalyn, a web developer, was more than happy to share his supportive response on Twitter:

His response:

Because mental illness may be less quantifiable to co-workers than, say, a runny nose or a cough, it’s common practice for individuals or even companies to deride their use by workers, but World Health Organization information from September 2017 says lost productivity due to depression and anxiety can hamper the global economy by up to $1 trillion per year.

Twitter users were quick to offer their work experiences as well as their hopes for the future.

While mental health days may eventually be made available by right, it’s dependent on the company to ensure a culture that affords employees comfort in taking them.

Madalyn’s company seems to offer that, which is perhaps why she’s compelled to not only share her personal experience with a sympathetic employer and also tout its value to others.

Share image via Tanja Heffner/Unsplash.

Being a teacher is a supremely taxing job. You're not only expected to have a mastery of the subject you teach, but you're also expected to have the social finesse and patience to navigate dozens of personalities in your classroom. Anyone who has spent any time teaching is well familiar with how many stories you get from the job, particularly involving students who open up about the good, the bad, the ugly in their personal lives.

In a recent Reddit thread, teachers shared what things they've overheard from students they wish they hadn't, or perhaps more accurately, weren't sure what to do with.

1. mgraunk's student stays out of the basement.

"That he doesn't like it when "mom gives massages in the basement" because he can "hear everything."

2. TiptoeThruTheTurtles intervened in a horrible situation.

"My mom says I'm too stupid to spell."

I was helping one of my first graders catch up on a spelling test. He was one of my "problem kids", but I always spent extra time helping him out because I used to be one, too. On this particular day he was getting really, really worked up. I finally flipped the test over and had the worst conversation."

"Kid: I can't do this. I'm too stupid!

Me: You can too do this, I know you can. Let's spell it out really slowly together.

Kid: No, I can't. I'm an idiot."

"Me: [Name]! Why are you saying that? Who told you that?

Kid: My mom says I'm too stupid to spell.

Me: ...That's not true. We're friends, yeah?

Kid: Best friends."

"Me: Okay, then you know I won't lie to you. You are one of the smartest kids I know. What else does your mom say?

And that's how I found out a seven year old boy was being physically and emotionally abused. I reported it, but left the school before I found out what came of it."

3. levelsevenweenie has students regularly confide in them.

"I guess it isn't that I overheard it. But I really like to keep up with the kids' personal lives. Over the years they grow to trust me and every once in a while, a student drops a huge bomb on me that makes me feel quite helpless for a while. Things like, "My parents are getting divorced this week and neither one wants me." or "My sister got killed trying to stop a fight." or "I hate my friends and I hate myself for liking them. But I don't want to be alone." I do my best for them."

4. NoahCLT is not ready for middle schooler antics.

"I worked with Middle Schoolers for exactly one year. When the 11 year old yelled “EAT THE BOOTY LIKE GROCERIES” When I asked him what his favorite food was, I knew that middle school wasn’t for me."

5. Triangle_Graph heard some scary relationship tactics.

"My friend teaches at a Catholic middle school. He said he once overheard a girl telling her friends she intended to pretend to be pregnant in order to keep her boyfriend from breaking up with her. When he asked her where she got such a manipulative idea, she said, "It worked for my mom!"

6. tallcardsfan learned a lot during biology.

"In high school biology class we received an unexpected closed door lecture after a teacher overheard conversation in the hall. Someone had stolen one of their mom’s birth control pills and thought that would be all she needed to prevent pregnancy. The teacher had been an EMT in a city at some point and I’m sure I sat there wide eyed. She even talked about coat hanger abortions and the possible results. We could ask any questions.

Learned a lot that day!"

7. ReddishWedding2018 learned too much one morning.

"I had a high school senior come to school in the morning straight from the club, still all glitter-covered and in a mostly-unbuttoned button down."

"Except it wasn't totally straight from the club-- he let it slip that he had gone home with a woman in her 40s at five in the morning, and stayed long enough for her to "make her kids and me breakfast."

8. stephc02's students bragged about playing hooky.

"This happened last year in an alternative education class I was supplying in. This was a regular high school that just happened to offer an alternative program to some students. A girl was talking about how much school she skipped last year. The guy she is talking to goes "I missed a lot of days as well but thats because I spent 2 months in a correctional institute."

9. Upnotdown0715 used the wrong words.

"I once used the word "gangbangers" in a class of freshmen boys. I was referring to inner city drug gangs. When almost the entire class started furiously giggling, I immediately regretted my choice of words. I'm not naive...I know most if not all of my students have watched hardcore porn. I just didn't need to be reminded of that fact when I'm trying to talk with them about urban gang crime."

10. McWhiskey heard about the drug connections.

"On my first two week observation internship I was at the back of the class just taking things in. Overheard one student tell another she knew where to get Ketamine."

"I froze and didn’t know what to do. I ended up doing nothing. I was only there to observe and I had literally just started the program. I think I made a mistake."

11. Tbone5711's principal is practically a war veteran.

"Heard this from a Vice Principal about 5 years ago. One time one of the kids told her "I like pussy" and then proceeded to tell her all the things one could put in a pussy. It was an Elementary School..."

12. epicnormalcy's student seems confused about pap smears.

"A junior boy telling his buddies he “gave the old lady a Pap smear the other night”.

Shudder"

13. -sing3r-'s student did NOT have money problems.

"Former college professor here.

“Oh my god! How do you get your parents to pay you 25 thousand dollars a month, mine only pay me 10 thousand!”

14. ToeRagger has classically frustrating students.

"Students whispering to each other about how they have absolutely no idea what i was talking about even though that was my third attempt of trying to explain the same thing to them."

15. MitchMcConnellsShell's student saw too much, too young.

"That one of my 14 year old students attended a visit to her sister's sugar daddy while she got their rent paid."

"Edit: For clarification, the student's sister had a sugar daddy. She went to fuck the guy for rent money and brought my student along."

16. LunaLokiCat's students shared contraceptives.

"My friend was a sub for a few years. In a high school class, he overheard a girl giving another girl ONE of her birth control pills. I wonder if they both got pregnant?"

17. BigDrew923 heard about a tragic crime.

"Not a teacher, but I was setting up to film a video in my high school's media room while two girls talked about how one of them was drug raped at a party on the other side of the room. Their mutual friend saw and allowed it to happened, and laugh when she ask why he didn't help her. I had my headphones on, so maybe they thought I wouldn't hear, plus they didn't know me then."

"However, I was only wearing it so people won't bother me while I was working so no music was playing. It was hard not to notice two girl crying, so I couldn't not listen. Anyway, the victim is now dating one of my friend, and we talked a few times since. Not sure if she forgot I was in the room."

18. CountPeter heard the most terrifying dump of their life.

"The building in the school in which I taught had only one staff toilet, so if it was occupied we had to use the student toilets. In one such instance, I am in my cubicle when a student walks in to the loo room and into another cubicle."

"What I heard next was the most awful sounding dump, but not too out of the ordinary. It's what he said whilst doing it that shook me up. Screaming as if in pain, he shouted things to the effect of "Jesus christ, I deserve this torment. Punish me for my sins, punish me for my salvation! I bare pain in your name!" And other fucked up religious stuff."

"No idea what was going on (it didn't sound like a kink from the tone) but I remember thinking that if we ever had a school shooting, there was no doubt it would be that guy."

19. shooterrrr had a VERY open student.

"One student was extremely talkative and sharing a lot of info that I did not need to know... they asked to go to the bathroom and I was relieved I could stop hearing about their stories... When they returned 35 minutes later, I don't ask what took them so long they just casually state:"

"S: Sorry I took so long sir, I dropped my underwear in the toilet

Me: Okay"

"S: My mom always told me to be prepared so I had a backup in my locker

Me: Okay

S: It was gross having to fish my underwear out of the toilet

Me:........ Okay thanks you, please focus on your work."

"S: I would not want to come back to class with wet underwear.

Me: Alright!

Other students started chiming in and they talked about it for a while...

Note: I am a supply teacher."

20. lwheeler1 got roasted by their teacher.

"Not a teacher, but in high school was telling a buddy of mine I hate math and that I'm just going to be a porn star. Teacher heard me and she looked over and said "you're going to starve". I replied "I'll have plenty to eat on the job". She laughed but prolly wish she never heard it."

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

-Drew Carey

Before you clock out for the day you need to check out these hilarious workplace memes. They totally nail the feeling of having your job slowly suck your soul out of your body.

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Just in case your nerd brain was overwhelmed by having to be refreshed on Game of Thrones before Sunday's premiere, Disney and Lucasfilm to remind us about the upcoming release of a little movie in a franchise called Star Wars. Oh, and we learned what that little movie is going to be called.

As Obi-Wan Kenobi would say, Star Wars surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.​​​​​​​ Star Wars is with us, always...until this December, when Episode IX completes the sequel trilogy.

Rey's backflip! Kylo's helmet repair! PALPATINE'S LAUGH???

The teaser for the final installment in the Skywalker saga is such as big deal that it seriously broke Twitter for a full minute.

For a few fleeting seconds, the portal to hell temporarily closed and Twitter crashed.

Once Twitter was back up and running, all of the trending topics were related to the galaxy far, far away.

People shared their reactions and are adorably losing their minds. In these cynical times, it's a treat to see some genuine enthusiasm.

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The title, The Rise of Skywalker, already has everybody theorizing what it could mean.

Is that....REDEMPTION music?

Lando lives! Billy Dee Williams is back...and so is his outfit.

LOOK! AT! REY!

And...sniff...Leia.

To the people who don't care about Star Wars: your day in the throne room will come.

Thanks to the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe. v. Wade, abortion is legal nationwide. But just because abortion is allowed doesn't mean the procedure is easy to access. States can implement restrictions on it, some of which have merit and some of which seem arbitrary and designed to punish women for having sex.

Besides restrictions at the state level, there are logistical concerns. How do you physically get to the clinic when it requires taking time off work/school and arranging transportation there and back? One woman took an Uber to her appointment and during the ride, her driver ascertained that she was scheduled to receive an abortion. What happened next is infuriating:

I’m in college in upstate NY and I don’t have a car on campus because it’s expensive. I’m 20 years old and I found out I was pregnant and subsequently decided I wanted an abortion because I’m in no position to care for a child.

There is a Planned Parenthood very close to my university, but the earliest appointment they had was a week away, and I found a clinic an hour away that had availability in three days, so I opted to go there instead.

Because I don’t have a car, I rely on Uber and lyft to get me places. My appointment was at 11:30am so at 9:58am my Uber arrived and he immediately seemed uncomfortable. After about five minutes in the car, he asked, “are we going to a planned parenthood?” I said no (because we weren’t), but it set off alarm bells that he would even ask that. The destination I put in was just the name of the doctor and the address of the clinic, there was nothing that would suggest it was an abortion clinic. After a few more minutes he asked, “are we going to an abortion clinic?”

I was shocked; I had no idea what to say, so I just remained quiet. He then said “I know it’s none of my business, but...” and proceeded to mention something about his wife being pregnant, how awful the procedure was (and proceeded to explain it in graphic detail), and that “there is so much they don’t tell you”. He then said “you’re going to regret this decision for the rest of your life” and that I was making a mistake.

It took all of my strength not to start crying but I managed to keep it together by looking out the window and avoiding his gaze. After we were about halfway to the destination, he suddenly pulls over with no warning. There was a gas station and a closed antiques store, and around us was farmland and forest. He said “I’m sorry, but I can’t take you the rest of the way. I can take you back to [my city], but you won’t be able to find another Uber out here.”

I got out of the car and immediately started crying. I called my parents each three times but they didn’t pick up. Then I called my boyfriend and he picked up right away. He managed to calm me down and told me to let the clinic know what was happening and to call some local cab companies.

My Uber driver hung around for about 10-15 minutes and asked once more if I wanted to go back with him and I declined. After he left, a cab came and I got to my appointment (an hour late).

I reported the driver to Uber and the next day I filed a police report with my city’s police department. Someone on Uber’s team got in touch with me after I told them about the police report and called me to get a detailed account of what happened. I told them everything on a call that was recorded, and the rep mentioned that it appeared the driver had taken a less direct route to get me to my destination prior to dropping me off.

Within a few days they reached out again and told me the driver had been banned from Uber. They also mentioned that it didn’t appear he’d ever done this before judging from his user ratings. However, I’d like to pursue further legal action against the driver if at all possible. Do I have a case? What should my next steps be?

I reached out to a law firm and a few legal aid societies but nothing has happened. I’m not sure what I should do now.

Under her original post in r/TwoXChromosomes, people had THOUGHTS.

So a medical abortion performed by legitimate doctors is less safe than just dropping a woman off in an unknown area with no way of getting anywhere?

Where are his priorities.

-SinfullySinless

Ew. That is HORRIFYING. He purposely set you up to miss your appointment. He got you alone in an isolated place so that you were stuck.

-RunningTrisarahtop

He should lose his position at Uber.

-NachoDawg

Not only did he cross so many lines, he willingly put you in danger.

You made all the correct choices in this situation. I'm very sorry this experience has been made worse by an irrelevant man who couldn't just do his job.

-toebeanhoe

And someone DID come through with solid legal advice:

Get a lawyer and suit the shit out of the under driver. Call up the ACLU, and see if they are willing to take your case. Write down every detail of what happened, including which taxi company picked you up, how many taxis you had to call and the timings.

This is a huge violation of rights, people like that Uber driver need action otherwise they will do this again and again. Consider doing it for the next women in your situation that would not be as strong willed as you.

Once lawyers are involved, Uber will do a lot more on their part. If not, it will just be minimally handled and buried.

I'm sorry you went through what you did, and per to you for holding your ground and continuing on to the doctor.

-themoslucious

Handling an unintended pregnancy is difficult enough as it is. To have some random dude with a car make your life even harder? Unacceptable. I'm enraged on this woman's behalf.

Catch up on all the hilarity you missed on the internet this week. If laughter really is the best medicine, we're all gonna live forever.

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True or false?: masculinity is a prison.

Ding ding ding! Society conditions boys and men to equate masculinity with dominance over others, a lack of vulnerability, and repression of one's emotions. It's no way to live, tbh. Though the discourse around gender roles is gradually changing, men still feel pressured to define themselves by bedding women, earning money, and making other men feel inferior. So when Redditor tokenbisexual asked, "Men of Reddit, what's the most pathetic/ridiculous thing another man has done in attempt to assert his dominance over you?" the answers poured in. Below are sixteen of the most mind-boggling examples.

1. big-boi22

He tried to drink water faster than me

no one drinks water faster than me

2. Lead5alad

I always feel like the guys who refuse to make room for you when walking by in the other direction are trying to assert their dominance and make themselves feel like hot shit. I never understand why people do that.

3. JeepPilot

Worked as a lifeguard at a summer camp years ago. During safety training we had to do a missing persons search which required all available staff to join hands and walk from the beach to into the water as far as we could while feeling with our feet for the missing swimmer. (During training there was a sandbag we had to find.)

The guy next to me kept insisting on holding mine in a certain way because "*I* will take the upper hand in this situation," said at me while staring me down. Whatever, dude. We're theoretically looking for a drowned child right now.

4. nordicanonymous

Flick my man tits.

5. WaviestMetal

Literally last weekend some really drunk dude who I had never once met or interacted with tried to fight me (to impress the girls he was with?) It was completely ridiculous, and his way of trying to initiate it was just repeatedly body checking me on the dance floor which I ignored because I thought he was just being drunk and dumb. Turns out one of his friends had to stop him from blindsiding me with a sucker punch to the face (assuming he was able to aim that well)

Some people do not mix well with alcohol apparently

6. RAGEKAGEMD

In jr high I remember this one bully that would get on his tip toes and bow out his chest like a gorilla and get all in your face whenever he felt threatened. It was such a funny stereotype maneuver.

7. yeti-van-halen

I was standing in the breezeway outside a friend's apartment while in college, and a guy coming down the stairs from an upper floor kinda tripped near the bottom of the stairs and stumbled into me. It was clear he super drunk and immediately got aggressive. He was so worked up about being tougher than me for some reason that he started doing push ups at me while me and my friends just laughed.

Fortunately his friends came and apologized and took him back up stairs, but it was definitely the most bizarre assertion of dominance I've ever encountered.

8. EathanS2k

I work in a grocery store and sometimes help unload the delivery trucks and our delivery comes in on what we call cages, like a 6 foot cage on wheels and obviously one that's full of toilet paper will be really light and one filled with 2 litre bottles of juice are the heavy ones. The lift that lowers them from the truck has that patterned metal floor and you have to pull the heavy cages hard to get them off, now Im 5'8" and don't have a lot of weight on me but I can pull these cages off just fine but there's a guy who's like 6'2" and is always trying to show how strong he is, so whenever Im helping and he's there he always insists he gets the heavy cages and that I get the "little guy cages". Everyone agrees he needs to grow up.

9. drayd38

One time at a house party, a few of us were talking to some of the girls there and one of the guys randomly started talking about how he does MMA, then another guy joined in and those 2 started wrestling in front of the girls. I don’t think their shirts needed to come off either but what the fuck do I know...

10. PhreedomPhighter

A former coworker. He would just stand in the way and refuse to move. Even if he wasnt in the way he would purposely get in the way. I work in a narrow kitchen so you can imagine how annoying that could be.

At one particular moment I was carrying a bulky 20 lbs box and he decided to do that. I pretended to not see him and barreled into him. He fell over and got incredibly mad at me. Started talking about how I have no muscle. It was pretty funny.

It was a display of the most fragile masculinity I've ever seen.

11. CDeats

one guy I know tried to get everyone to whip out their dicks and compare sizes, and honestly it came across as one of the most insecure and childish efforts to assert dominance ever. because dick size has nothing to do with dominance. also this is the guy when we were getting a house insisted "we've all gotta be equals." despite always trying to run things.

12. daibz

I had someone stand on their tippy toes to seem taller when we where talking

13. TrustworthyTip

This happened over DnD when my friend (who owns a store) let these guys we didn't know that well to join our campaign. I don't know why, I, out of the table got singled out but a girl walks in and this guy:

- complained that I didn't order pizza for him

- said 'how about you go fuck yourself' when I asked him if he wanted some

- walked over behind me and 'playfully' puts his arms around my neck, I told him I'd punch him in the face if he did it one more time because I don't know who the fuck he is.

Absolutely ruined my day.

14. Apple-Juice-Tsunami

A friend tried to make himself look good in front of his crush by literally putting me in a random choke hold "for a laugh". Turns out it was because I was talking to her (I had a girlfriend at the time, we were just talking).

It wasn't a choke hold though, it was basically just a headlock, so I decided to correct him. I was fairly oblivious and didn't realise this was a failed "alpha move".

Creeped the shit out of his crush that he would do that out of no-where and she stopped talking to him. Apparently she quite liked him up until that point, so he kinda shot himself in the foot.

15. high_larry_us

Was out having a drink. Started chatting to the guy next to me when I learn he, too, is a musician. He then tells me "you're not a musician. I find it offensive when people tell me they're a musician when they haven't put in the time & dedication that I have." Ok dude come down off your ego trip, christ.

16. eARThistory

I was leaving a gas station once with a 6 pack of some craft beer to go watch a game at my friends house and a group of college kids were driving out of the parking lot and one yelled out the window, “6 packs are for pussies!” I guess the amount of beer I was planning on drinking that night wasn’t adequate to his standards.

Ah, marriage. The union of two souls that have come together and agreed to see it through, 'til death - or divorce - do they part. The heteronormative romantic in me is drawn to this classic tale of courtship: Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall blissfully in love and declare their commitment to one another. Boy and girl order takeout and watch Netflix until forever. FIN.

There's just one catch: life doesn't work like that. It doesn't make narrative sense, and romantic love doesn't magically solve your problems. Plus, have you TRIED to date another human? They're neurotic, insecure, and needy - not the stoic yet tender prince I was promised. *extremely Tracy Jordan voice* Ella Enchanted lied to me!!!

I've unearthed yet more evidence that romantic love with men is a futile proposition:

The initial scenario laid out is frustrating, but there's a happy ending: she dumped his ass and kept living her damn life! I don't know this lady, but I desperately want to meet and befriend her. I'll even waitress at the strip club if she needs someone.

Same. More satisfying than a pimple pop, tbh.

Ready for a quick 'n dirty edition of Heartwarming Internet Content? I sure hope so, because this one reawakened my faith in humanity - namely the humanity of one Halsey. Halsey is a singer and songwriter whose voice you might recognize from the Chainsmokers' smash hit 'Closer.' She's also, apparently, an all-around cool person who's dedicated to her fans.

Arianna Smith of Los Angeles penned a thread about her relationship with Halsey and their interactions over the years.

People were bowled over by the singer's generosity and kindness.

No wonder she's inspired a worldwide standom!

30 Rock has been off the air for about six years now, but it still lives on in our hearts, via internet memes, and through that one friend who is constantly quoting it (me). Tina Fey's beloved, weird show was jam-packed with incredibly written, clever jokes -- so much so that it feels impossible to remember them all. In fact, so many of the jokes were delivered in such an impressively fast-paced manner, you may not have caught them all. But have no fear, because the internet exists and is here to help you remember all of the gems you may have forgotten or overlooked.

Writer Anna Fitzpatrick asked people what they thought the most underrated 30 Rock jokes are, and boy oh boy did people deliver. Nerds!

Here are 30 of our favorites. Turns out Tracy is the most underrated character.

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If you're that person who's always cracking up at inappropriate humor, boy do we have a meme list for you. You don't have to feel guilty for giggling at these raunchy memes. Someecards is a judgment-free zone, so laugh with pride, you silly pervs.

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Not sure if you have gotten the memo, but Andy Samberg is hella fine. Personally, I received this news the first time I laid eyes on him, AKA when I watched Lonely Island's "I Jizzed in My Pants" sketch video. It was love at first jizz? Anyway, others have caught wind of Andy's snack status now that a certain photo was posted online. The Lonely Island twitter account tweeted a photo of Andy with a beard...

...and people are not okay.

I mean, look at that side smile...

And thus, a meme is born.

The internet has spoken, and Andy Samberg is officially Daddy.

When invited into someone's home, you're expected to be on your best behavior. However, not everyone abides by this sentiment. Some people are rude as hell, and have the audacity to march into someone else's home and disrespect them. Surely, we have all witnessed this to some degree. Maybe you've had someone break your wine glass and try to hide it, or perhaps you've encountered something drastic like theft from a house guest.

We all have our own version of this story, and some of them are truly absurd. I stumbled upon a collection of these stories on a Reddit thread, where someone (TheMaster0fWar) asked, "What is the most disrespectful thing that someone has done in your home?" People had some wild shit to report, so I picked out thirteen of my favorite tales. Enjoy!

1. The case of the horny babysitter (razzledazzlemaster).

a babysitter stole my vibrator and blocked my calls. like really?

2. The penny thief (bobdigi36).

My wife’s cousin was staying at our house because he as going through marital problems. One night I woke up in the middle of the night and I heard some change rattling. He walks down the hall with my 5 year old’s piggy bank. He was taking money from my fucking daughter’s piggy bank to buy beer and smokes.

3. The epic fish fail (CaitieGonzo).

Back in college my roommates and I hosted a birthday party for a mutual friend at our apartment. Earlier that day we gifted her a pet goldfish because she had been talking about getting a fish.

Fast forward to later in the night. Our male friend, let’s call him Mike, decided he needed to find a way to impress our other friend, who I’ll call Darla. Mike tries every lame joke and pick up line on Darla and fails time and time again. Then he sees the goldfish in his tank and scoops him up in his hand. He says, “Check this out, Darla!” He then plops the fish into his mouth and swallows it alive. My roommate and I immediately rush over and start trying to make Mike puke the fish back up. Darla quickly makes for the door and leaves the party.

Sadly that fish met its doom in Mike’s stomach that night. He never apologized although he did complain about severe stomach issues for several days afterwards.

TLDR; bought a fish for a friend and another friend swallowed it alive at a party to impress/flirt with someone.

4. The foreshadower (theonionenthusiast).

When I was in like 2nd grade, I invited this girl over and we made popcorn as a snack and not even 5 minutes later, this twat decided it's a good idea to run all over my house throwing it everywhere. This goes on another 5 minutes while I chase her down. But the damage is done. The popcorn is in between couch cushions, under the fridge, under my bed, in my laundry basket, all over the damn floor. My mom ends up sitting us down and proceeds to lay it out on her, telling her that what she did was disrespectful and to help clean up. She pouted and said no, saying since it wasn't her house she didn't have to clean shit. She continued to pout as my mom called her mom and pretty much told her to leave and to not expect to be invited back anytime soon. I haven't spoken to her in a while, but apparently she got banned from the mall for trashing a Lush store with her friend, throwing food, dumping out products, and smashing bath bombs...so I guess she hasn't changed much.

5. The big swinger (Pyson_Wence).

Had a drunk partygoer attempt to do pull ups from the planks of my old ranch style ceiling just beneath the heater vent and ended up pulling down a large portion of my ceiling.

Refused to pay for it.

6. The unplugged edition (cartman_bane).

Constantly unplugging electronics. First it was the thermostat (she didn't like the sound the water heater made) then the wifi (the CIA was snooping on her) and finally my fridge (she was saving the environment).

7. The shitty gamer (brykupono).

Dude crapped his pants while sitting on my couch playing a video game and just sat there finishing the match. We were having an old-fashioned LAN party and the entire room cleared out!

8. The mooch (bungopony).

We invited a group of people over for lunch. One of them arrived, put a bunch of food on a plate in a plastic container, and left to bring it to eat with her boyfriend.

9. The rude sandwich (Cthulu_1234)

My mom made a huge dinner for my aunt and cousins. They showed up two hours late, told my mom “oh sorry the boys can’t eat that much right now” and just went in our fridge and made them sandwiches instead...

10. The nightmare (scientistschmientist).

I made an account just to share this story.

We had friends over for my girlfriend's birthday and to celebrate moving into a new apartment together for the first time. A guy we knew from college kept stealing peoples drinks throughout the night and got incoherently drunk. He lived a couple hours away but got too drunk to go home, so we let him stay despite already having a friend from out of town who planned to stay with us.

In the middle of the night, the drunkard stripped down, forced the other guest off the only air mattress and pooped himself massively. He then tracked poopy footprints all over the apartment, smacked poopy handprints on all the door nobs, including in the bedroom where we were sleeping, covered all our towels/some blankets in his butt sauce, and peed in some places. Oh but it's not like he didnt make it to the bathroom - he left a second, possibly third shit in the toilet. No flush. No apology. Just left at like 6am, without his poopy underpants. Those he left on the ruined air mattress in a steaming heap.

Needless the say the surprise breakfast waffles for my girlfriend were not as enjoyable.

11. The couples retreat (ginger-ghost).

My husband’s friend and her boyfriend arrived from overseas. We hadn’t met him previously.

On day one the boyfriend googled “buy weed _______ (city name)”, got scammed into sending a lot of cash to Nigeria via Western Union to pay for it, then gave them our address for delivery. No weed ever turned up, but the police did.

On day two he wanked in the shower and his load got caught by the hair catcher in the drain, which I discovered when I cleaned the shower. Nearly vomited.

On day three the pair of them had a massive raging argument at our dinner table while the four of us were sitting down to eat. They were yelling insults at each other and trying to get us to join in and take a side.

It went on like this for about a week until my husband told them to leave. They tried to come back a few days later because they’d discovered that our country is expensive and they’d prefer free accommodation with us. We declined.

12. The beast (Impastaroniville).

My sisters old boyfriend from high school watched bestiality porn on our family computer and ended up making it unusable because of the amount of viruses it gave the computer. Lots of pictures and videos went missing and my dad’s childhood friend’s obituary too.

13. The Ex (OrionsReddit).

A now EX girlfriend came into my parents home for only the second time and said to my mother “wow it’s tidy in here for a change haha” I could see in my mother’s eyes the thought process of how to slap her to the next century without making a scene, thankfully she laughed it off but that was a big red flag for me and my ex

5. Rep. Ilhan Omar, because Trump's reelection strategy is to incite death threats about her.

Something both parties can agree on in this politically fraught moment is that they're afraid of freshman Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

The Right spent all of last week plucking a phrase out from a speech to stoke further hatred among their already hateful base, and the president turned it up to eleven by cutting footage of her and 9/11. It took most Democrats took awhile to to admit that that's bad, but they're coming around.

Congresswoman Omar released a statement saying, "Since the president’s tweet Friday evening, I have experienced an increase in direct threats on my life — many directly referencing or replying to the president’s video."

A Trump campaign official told The New York Timesthat focusing on Omar and sending his army of violent bigots against her is all part of his "master plan" to get re-elected and therefore avoid indictment in the Southern District of New York.

"Mr. Trump and his team are trying to make Ms. Omar, one of a group of progressive women Democratic House members who is relatively unknown in national politics, a household name, to be seen as the most prominent voice of the Democratic Party, regardless of her actual position. And they are gambling that there will be limited downside in doing so," The Times reports.

"Limited downside in doing so"? OMAR IS GETTING DEATH THREATS, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is finally taking it seriously.

What makes Trump think that bigotry will work as a campaign strategy, other than the fact that it got him elected the first time?

4. Melania Trump, because she's obviously very butthurt about not being on the cover of Vogue.

Melania Trump, a woman who came to the United States to make her living as a model and got an "Einstein visa" for doing so, would like you to think that she is above photo shoots and magazine covers.

Melisandre's spokeswoman released a statement on the ultimate injustice facing the nation: the fact that the First Lady has never appeared on the cover of Vogue, the favorite magazine of plastic surgery offices.

Michelle Obama had the honor thrice, gracing the glossy periodical in 2009, 2013, and 2016.

In a recent interview with Chritiane Amanpour, Vogue editor-in-chief and sunglass consosseuir Anna Winter was asked how she choses which women to feature, which included what many interpret as a subtle dig and Donald Trump's third wife:

You have to stand up for what you believe in and you have to take a point of view. We profile women in the magazine that we believe in the stand that they’re taking on issues we support them, we feel that they are leaders.

The lack of a Melania mention was perceived as shade by Fox News and the Office of the First Lady, and spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham issued a retort:

To be on the cover of Vogue doesn't define Mrs. Trump, she's been there, done that long before she was first lady. Her role as first lady of the United States and all that she does is much more important than some superficial photo shoot and cover.

Lady Trump should show Vogue she really doesn't care with her "I really don't care, do u?" jacket.

3. Samwell Tarly, because his best friend's girlfriend killed his father and brother and things are only getting worse.

[SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY]

Game of Thrones may be fiction, but you wouldn't know that based on how it's treated and dissected in the discourse, so we're going to go ahead and treat the characters like they're real people until the show wraps up forever in just six weeks.

Samwell Tarly has been a loyal companion to Jon Snow since they were both freshmen in the Night's Watch together, talking him off the ledge when Jon was assigned to be a steward and nominating him to be the Lord Commander. The BFF (and DUFF) has been with Jon for every major life event, including, now, telling him that he's the true heir to the Iron Throne.

Our boy Sammy was having a great day, getting praised by his now queen Daenerys Targaryen for scrapping Ser Jorah of House Friendzone's Grayscale off, when the Dragon Queen dropped the news that she burned his father and brother.

Samwell didn't get along with the men in his family, but it still hurt to learn that they were BURNED ALIVE. He all but burst into tears, and gave us this sad face that's enough to make anybody cry.

It was in anger when Sam met Jon in the Winterfell crypts, and revealed to Jon the news that his father is his uncle and his uncle is his father. Oh, and that his real dad is Rhaegar Targaryen and therefore, he is boinking his aunt.

This not only has huge ramifications for the realm, but for his relationship with Jon, and he set up one of the biggest conflicts of the season, other than the existential threat of the ice zombies.

At least Sam has Sansa to talk about Dany with.

2. The high schoolers whose rodeos were canceled because horses got herpes.

You think sex ed for humans is insufficient? Imagine sex ed for horses.

An epidemic of equine herpes has broken out in the Southwest, and is proving to be a party pooper.

FOX13 reports that the outbreak has broken out in Arizona, and rodeos all across Utah are being canceled for fear of it spreading to their own horses.

"It’s hard, we canceled one the night before it was supposed to start, people that already traveled clear across the state to compete had to turn around and go home," a high schooler told the news channel.

In 2012, Utah experienced a horse herpes epidemic which resulted in more than 160 horses being put down, and this time around, they're practicing safe sets and keeping the state's animals quarantined.

High school rodeo competitor Fallon Siddoway is bummed that his competition was canceled, but cares for the safety of his equine pals.

"Im glad that my horses weren’t in jeopardy of getting it, I’m glad that they canceled it," Siddoway said. "If it happened to my horses I would be really upset, if they didn’t make it through it I don’t know what I would do."

You know what they say....save a horse, ride a cowboy.

1. People (not corporations) who voted for Trump and now need to pay more taxes.

Happy Tax Day!

Last night marked the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones for a large swath of the population, but for Khloe Kardashian it marked the first birthday party for her baby daughter True.

By now, we all know that True's father, Tristan Thompson cheated on Khloe multiple times, and is firmly out of the picture. This isn't without being granted a second chance, either. When Thompson was first caught cheating around the time of True's birth, Khloe opted to give him a second chance as a partner. But he fully dug his own grave when he got involved with Kylie Jenner's (ex) best friend Jordyn Woods a few months ago.

However, despite his infidelities, Khloe still allowed him to spend time with his daughter at her birthday party, and while there were no obvious confrontations, the body language in the videos say it all.

Here, we see Khloe making the most intense eye contact with True during the Happy Birthday song, completely ignoring Tristan's existence.

Sure, Tristan might be holding True, but that doesn't mean he deserves acknowledgement on any level. While it's clear she is taking the high road, she has no plans on forgetting or forgiving his astronomical level of BS.

This video is perhaps the most apt representation of Khloe's feelings about Tristan. He is actively trying to get in the camera frame, attempting to hold True, and Khloe is fully pivoting away from him. This is truly a professional level of diversion.

Given the fact that Tristan wants to be involved in his daughter's life, it's likely this might be the first of many awkward birthday parties and milestone gatherings where the two have to encounter each other. If last night is any indication, it's clear Khloe knows how to communicate exactly how she feels about her ex without wasting energy.