From Desperate Housewives to Orange is the New Black.

Felicity Huffman has been sentenced to 14 days in jail after she admitted to paying $15,000 to boost her daughter's SAT score.

She also must pay a $30,000 fine and do community service, which would look great on a college application.

Unlike Lori "Aunt Becky" Loughlin, Huffman plead guilty, and the Court is hoping that a Scaramucci in jail would deter others for doling out bribes.

"In the context of this case," prosecutors in the sentencing recommendation, "neither probation nor home confinement (in a large home in the Hollywood Hills with an infinity pool) would constitute meaningful punishment or deter others from committing similar crimes."

While two weeks in jail might seem like a lot for somebody who has been to both the Emmys and the Oscars, people on Twitter are arguing that it reeks of white privilege.

Crystal Mason, a mother in Texas, was sentenced to five years for voting despite being ineligble.

Mothers have gone to prison for trying to give their kids good educations.

Alvin Kennard, much like Jean Valjean, was in prison for decades for stealing from a bakery.

Anand Giriharadas, who literally wrote a book on rich people's bullsh*t, argues that the sentence amounts to a simple slap on the wrist.

Fourteen days isn't a lot, but it isn't nothing.

Most famous criminals don't get punished...more often then not, they become president.

Before we criticize the folks on Twitter for looking for fake reasons to be outraged (something that has been known to happen), let's recall the time that Melania Trump wore a jacket that said "I don't really care, Do U?" on her way to visit a detention center housing children separated from their families by her husband's administration. So it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility that she would do something as tactless as wearing a dress featuring an image of a plane crashing into a building while visiting a 9/11 memorial on the anniversary of the historic tragedy. Still, sporting 9/11-themed fashion on 9/11 seems like a shockingly bad judgment, even for the woman who married Donald Trump.

And yet...... when Donald Trump shared this photo of him and Melania at the 9/11 memorial yesterday, people could not help but zone in on the back of her dress...... and wonder.

People quickly called Trump out on Twitter for making the tragedy about him and his propaganda. While many others also pointed out the suspicious stitching on the back of Melania's dress.

As several have noted, even if the image on the dress was not intentional, it was probably a bad idea to wear this particular dress on this particular day.

While some seem to think it's intentional and are comparing it to the "I really don't care, Do U?" fiasco.

Other Twitter users are defending the stitching, calling the comparison to a tower purely accidental.

White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham called the accusations "ridiculous," which could be true or could be a straight-up lie; there's absolutely no way to know. But even if the offensive image on the dress was intentional, it will be forgotten by tomorrow and replaced with yet another scandal. What an exhausting few years it's been. Wake me up in 2021, pls.

"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

-John Shirley

Don't let your weekend pass you by. Saturday mornings were made for relaxation. Kick back and enjoy the laughs. These memes will definitely crack you up. Best of all you don't even have to put on pants to enjoy them. That's my kind of weekend entertainment.

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You already know and love James Corden's work thanks to 'The Late Late Show.' Since landing the prestigious gig in 2015, the British comedian has wowed audiences with his hosting skills, cheery persona, and 'Carpool Karaoke' bits. But last night he diverted from his usual programming by addressing a recent segment from 'Real Time with Bill Maher.'

Corden responded to Maher's editorial segment in which the controversial comedian called for a fat-shaming 'comeback,' saying, 'Some amount of shame is good.'

Corden challenged the notion that fat-shaming ever disappeared, saying, 'Fat-shaming never went anywhere - ask literally any fat person. We are reminded of it all the time. On airplanes, on Instagram, when someone leaves a pie on the window sill to cool and they give us a look like, 'Don't you dare!'"

'We know that being overweight isn't good for us and I've struggled my entire life trying to manage my weight and I suck at it,' the host divulged in a refreshingly candid moment.

Corden's entire response is viewable on YouTube:

His comments struck a chord with viewers.

Bravo, James!

It began innocently enough. A Streator, Illinois Walmart announced an employee named Sam as its cashier of the week. Way to go, Sam!

Then the comments started rolling in. They were effusive - nay, hyperbolic - in their praise. Sam wasn't just a competent, friendly cashier; she'd borne babies for people, rescued customers from wells, and lent them her car. Her commitment to excellent service isn't just unparalleled; it seems to defy space and time.

The comments are hilarious in their specificity and attention to detail. Thousands of people came together online to lavish one Walmart employee with compliments. When was the last time something this beautiful happened on the Internet? Sure, Sam hasn't actually rescued anyone from a well - but if she's so great at her job, why DOESN'T she deserve accolades? I understand the intention behind these jokes - and they're legitimately funny - but they serve a greater purpose: drawing attention to working-class people and the undervalued labor they perform.

Congratulations, Sam, and thanks for the much-needed laughter! Immerse yourself in the downright epic comments section here.

Great news for the Disney obsessives in your life: upscale florist Roseshire is selling Disney-themed bouquets. Some are pegged to a particular movie, while others celebrate the company's work in general. Though not inexpensive - the bouquets range from $105 to $205, excluding tax and shipping - they'd make a memorable, visually-engaging gift for Mickey Mouse enthusiasts that love flowers. My only criticism is that no 'Fantasia' bouquet exists - at least not yet. The eye-popping designs are viewable on Instagram and Roseshire's official website.

Pretty rad, huh?

Beauty and the Beast.

The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Alice in Wonderland (my personal favorite).

Cinderella.

Aladdin.

Snow White.

The Little Mermaid.

This past Wednesday, Andy Richter - an actor and comedian best known as Conan O'Brien's side kick - tweeted about a curious occurrence: 'Just saw a guy, I kid you not, walk up to the gate, hear they were boarding only people with disabilities at the moment, and he faked a limp and got on the plane' (the tweet has since been deleted). Those with disabilities responded to Richter in droves and explained why his take was biased.

Out of this hubbub emerged an instructive, enlightening thread from author and speaker Stephanie Tait. She relays the experience of 'performing disability' for the sake of able-bodied people so they'll allow her necessary accommodations - or simply treat her with respect.

Thank you, Stephanie, for insights into a phenomenon that's widely misunderstood. The Internet doesn't deserve you.

At this point in the 2020 Democratic nomination race, I thought I'd become jaded. No matter how bizarre, ridiculous, or infuriating the news was, I assumed it wouldn't provoke a genuine emotional response. Then I watched this clip of Joe Biden talking about a 1962 incident in which he sparred with a (possibly fictional) gangster named 'Corn Pop' and realized I was mistaken. It made me feel many things, including confused, high, and - most importantly - entertained.

It all started when Michael Harriott of The Root mentioned Biden's now-legendary anecdote on Twitter, which is recounted in his autobiography 'Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics.' It's also featured in a Washington Post piece.

The entire thread is worth reading. It prompted someone to locate the 2017 clip where Biden tells the story in his own, befuddling words at a dedication ceremony for the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center in Wilmington, DE. To be fair, others have corroborated elements of the story, so it's probably not 100% fabricated; but the details are hilariously specific, especially when Biden delivers them. Twitter's having a field day, tbh.

Understanding everyone's feelings in an office setting can be difficult.

While it's important to have work friendships and establish trust between the people you spend 40+ hours a week with, sometimes the lines get blurry and you might end up shoving your foot in your mouth.

In the "Am I The As*hole?" section of Reddit, a 20-year-old man who works with mostly women shared a cringe-worthy moment far worse than asking someone who isn't pregnant when they're due. His question alone is shudder-inducing...

AITA for telling an infertile woman that "fur babies don't count"?

Alt account. Ya boy done gone made a massive whoopsie.

Basically I [20M] recently started a job where I have mostly female coworkers. Amongst them is a small group who all have young kids around the same age. They go to mum-and-kid activities together, babysit each other's kids, have coffee mornings, hang out at the weekends etc. There is one coworker who has complained to me a few times that she feels deliberately left out by this group. She refers to herself as "mama" and often talks about "the kids", so I assumed she had children of her own and sympathised with her that she was being excluded from the mummy group. However, Friday I asked to see a picture of the kids...and she showed me a photo of three cats. Quickly dawned on me that she's a fur mama with fur babies, which I get bc I love my animals too, but it made it weird to me that she's pissed about being excluded from activities involving actual human children when she has none herself. When she later complained again about not being invited to something I kinda gently said "maybe it's cause they're hanging out with their kids, I don't know if fur babies really count in that context". Coworker got upset and ran out crying.

Turns out, she's infertile and desperately wants kids but can't have them, so her considering her cats as her kids is how she copes. Obviously I feel awful now, I didn't mean to insult her or invalidate her feelings like that. Still I'm saved a little by the fact that I didn't know, right?

ETA: I bought her her favourite coffee and apologised this morning. She's still being a bit standoffish, but it's better.

Yikes. Even without any context, this one is already a doozy. Infertility is a sensitive subject for many women and the last person a woman at work wants to discuss it with is a man who isn't even old enough to drink in the United States. That being said, comparing human children to pets is a bit strange and if this woman truly felt she was being excluded from the activities the other moms are involved in, she's wrong. Is she supposed to bring her cats to the playground? Not sure how the "Mommy and Me" class would feel about cats attending...

It's nice that he apologized, but that didn't stop the internet from taking a moral inventory and determining whether or not he's an as*hole.

"KillEmAll_Pyra" wrote:

NTA (Not the Asshole)

Even if she is infertile, fur babies do not count when conducting activities and play dates with young children.

You did not know and frankly, I don't think there needs to be an apology here. You simply pointed out that children and cats are not the same - a fact we all already know. However it does sound like she's struggling with this issue of infertility so maybe reach out and offer her some comfort on that part.

"CoolCool6" wrote:

You didn't know she was infertile, and what you said wasn't really that rude. It's unfortunate that she can't have kids, but she can't expect people to treat her cats as if they are human children.

I do sympathise with her situation and I would recommend you go and apologise or send her a card, because it's sounds like she's going through some real shit and it might cheer her up.

"ezorethyk2" wrote:

She is being delusional to the point she wants other people to accept her "reality". It's not your fault for not coping with her and you told her in a nice way.

"WayTooPricey" wrote:

I'm a cat owner, I love my cats like they are family. But they AREN"T my children and to be perfectly honest I tend to think of people who infantilise their pets as kind of a bit loopy. No, that is an animal, a wonderful sentient being yes, but an animal. It isn't a child and most of these animals are adults in age and shouldn't be surrogate babies.

I'm not trying to be insenitive to people who want kids and can't have them. But we need to get a bit real here. A cat will never be a child. Calling an adult cat your 'furbaby' is a bit mentally strange. Your cat is middle aged for a start and its clearly not a human child.

In terms of this particular lady I think she is in denial and trying to avoid the unfortunate reality and attendant grief she feels. Hence why she fell apart the instant you pointed out the elephant in the room. You were not unkind to her and were trying to help her understand that it's not at all normal for people to consider a cat a child replacement. Her coworkers aren't trying to be unkind to her, she simply does not have children who can play with human children. Nor can she bond with those women on parenting issues because raising a cat is nothing like raising a child. They are in different universes of experience.

And the other elephant in the room - she is meeting the clinical definition of a crazy cat lady. She is in deep grief and not able to be rational. She needs a therapist not a play date with mothers.

"LorazepamIsMyJam" wrote:

Cats aren’t humans; end of story.

While the answers overwhelmingly were in support of this man, one user thought differently.

"Megatallica83" wrote:

I'm glad that you realized what you said was hurtful and are trying to make amends. But this was a major asshole move. I realize that you didn't know what she was dealing with and you can't be blamed for that. I'm not saying that you should have just known. Obviously being unable to have children when you really want your own biological children is incredibly painful. And with all of the rigid expectations that we have traditionally placed on the sexes, especially in that we have told women throughout history that the greatest accomplishment they can ever hope to attain is in having children, and with the way we as a society glorify and place so much value on having our own children as a whole, being childless can sometimes make these women feel like they are worthless or failures as women or even as human beings, or like they're not "real" woman.

She has pets to care for and love, and to receive unconditional love from, as a way of coping with being unable to have children. And for those of us who do have pets, we know that we form incredible emotional attachments to them and they became like family to us. They can feel like our "babies" at time, so it's potentially devastating when something bad happens to them. You are correct in that one of the way she copes with her fertility issues is by taking on pets and looking at them as children. And she is bound to feel very lonely and hurt when people that she likes, who have what she desperately wants but can't have, hang out without inviting her. It's not exactly the same thing, but I was one of those people in school who didn't fit in and watched people post on social media and talk about hanging out with their friends while I was never invited. These included people I wanted to fit in with and be friends with, but had a hard time talking to, and it was very distressing, so I feel for this woman.

Again, she's obviously dealing with a lot of emotional anguish from her situation and should probably seek counseling. But when you said that fur babies don't count, you essentially ripped a bandaid off of a festering wound, potentially humiliated her, and invalidated her way of dealing with fertility issues, and probably made her feel like she is wrong to cope this way.

TL;DR you really hurt this woman's feelings, and she's dealing with something that is very painful and distressing. Please talk to her about how she feels and really listen to her, and keep trying to make it up to her within reason. Don't make this harder for her if you can help it. This was an "asshole" thing to say but I don't think you, yourself, are necessarily an all-around asshole or bad guy.

Cats might not be humans, but they definitely are cute. Hopefully this woman forgives her co-worker and their office small talk will go back to "do you want me to get you anything from the break room?" instead of "do you want me to accidentally shame you for your infertility?"

When news hit that actress Felicity Huffman was only given a 14-day prison sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal, people took to the internet to express their discontent.

A lot of people pointed out how the short sentence was a benefit of white privilege (coupled with the immunity of fame), and that black and brown people get sentenced exponentially more time for smaller crimes.

Many compared Huffman's light sentencing with the viral story of Tanya McDowell, a homeless woman who was sentenced to five years prison time after enrolling her son in a school district she didn't live in (as well as unrelated drug charges).

As the discussion raged on, John Legend took to Twitter to point out why he thought everyone was missing the mark.

Legend bemoaned the double standard Huffman benefits from, while suggesting a better future would involve less prison time for all.

Rather than focusing on how Huffman deserves more time behind bars, Legend challenged just how desensitized we've become to jailing people.

People jumped in the thread to echo that jailing McDowell for trying to create a better life for her son makes no sense, and a more fitting punishment for Huffman would be community service or paying for tuition for less privileged families.

Of course, the most menacing culprit in this equation is the billion dollar industry profiting off locking people up and perpetuating racism and classism.

A better justice system would remain consistent, regardless of someone's privilege, and would dole out punishments that offer a chance for restitution and rehabilitation.

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"If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way."

- Homer Simpson

If you hate your job, don't worry. Only about 99% of people feel the same way. Stick it to the man by laughing at these hilarious workplace memes while you wait for the clock to strike 5pm.

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With being a parent comes great responsibility, and not all parents rise to the task. A mom recently took to Reddit's "Am I The A**hole?" forum to ask the public to weigh in on whether or not she's an a**hole for how she handled a situation with her 4-year-old daughter breaking someone else's property (hint: not well).

Basically, her kid broke an expensive piece of artwork at an open house. She doesn't think she should have to pay for it, because 1) it's expensive and 2) she blames the owners of the home for leaving it out in the first place.

Reddit is not on her side. Are you?

She begins by explaining that she lives in a small town, which is "biting her in the a**" right now, presumably because everyone knows what happened and is talking about it.

I live in a pretty small town, so if you don't know somebody directly, you're likely to know a person who knows them, and this is pretty much biting me in the ass right now.

When your whole town is against you, that's usually a sign you might be in the wrong (unless it's Salem in the late 1600's and you're being accused of witchcraft in which case, it's fully on them). But I digress.

The woman continues by explaining that she and her husband are looking to buy a new home so they've been attending open houses. Recently, her 4-year-old child picked up a mask that was laying out on a table at an open house. It was "super bright, very loud" and "apparently VERY fragile," says the mom.

After discovering that the mask her kid was playing with was broken, the mom felt "extremely embarrassed" so she grabbed her kid and husband and they left.

Because that's what innocent people do.....

My husband and I are looking to upgrade homes given we're planning on expanding our family, so we've been looking at a few open houses recently. About a week ago we were at an open house when our daughter (4) wandered off and picked up this mask type thing laying out on a table. Super bright, very loud, apparently VERY fragile and pretty much right out in the open. When I saw her touching it I told her to put it down but it was too late and somehow it had gotten cracked down the middle. Now, I'm not sure if it was already broken and they had left it out as some sort of trap (because who leaves something bright like that lying around during an open house, with children walking around?), or if she did anything, but I felt extremely embarrassed and grabbed my daughter and told my husband it was time to leave.

This mom also suggests that the mask had been "already broken" and left out as "some sort of trap" to milk innocent parents out of their money. So that gives you an idea of the kind of person this mom is: a delusional one. She continues by trashing her "so called friend" who informed the house owner of what happened.

Now the house owner is "demanding" she pay her back for breaking the artwork, which apparently costs a four-figure sum of money.

A so called friend of mine who knows the house owner saw me there and apparently told her she saw me rushing out of her house on the same day she returned to find the mask broken. Now she's hitting me up on the phone demanding I pay her back for breaking "art" and naming an absolutely ludicrous price (think four figures). I'm absolutely not going to pay her that, but a few people I know think I'm in the wrong here. I personally think if you're having an open house that children will be visiting you don't leave expensive breakables out in the open. I also do not believe for a second that thing was worth thousands of dollars, and if it was, I think there's a very good chance she broke it herself then left it lying around to pin it on someone else and guilt some money out of them. Whose the asshole here?

The mom, who seems entirely convinced this open house trapped her toddler and is now extorting her for money, asked the internet to decide who is "the a**hole here." And she may now regret this post, because the internet is pointing fingers at her.

Commenters are calling the mom the a**hole in the situation, and calling her out for her transparent (and delusional) claim that this was all some kind of "trap."

Prices4182 writes:

YTA. Your kid broke something in someone else’s house while you let them wander off. Either look after your kid or don’t bring them.

stormywhethers321 writes:

YTA. You were in someone's home and it was on you to watch your kid. Otherwise, whatever she breaks is your responsibility. Get a toddler harness or something.

Also, why did you just leave without even trying to apologize?

It's also very unlikely that a woman trying to sell her house left out something that was broken, hoped a kid would handle it and then she could hit people with the bill. It's way more likely she was displaying something nice because it made the house look posh, the way people put fresh flowers in a house they're trying to sell, and your kid broke it.

marnieColey agrees, writing:

YTA. Totally agree with the above statement. Seriously, what’s more likely? A grown women plotting a “trap” for a child during her open house, hoping someone else would be ticked into paying for this broken mask? Or, some couple let their 4-year-old wonder off unsupervised and broke something expensive?

And many people are pointing out how important it is to watch your kid in other people's homes (and just in general, since toddlers are known to be destructive to themselves and others). EARTH TO MOM, everyone knows this.

stormywhethers321 writes:

They're really lucky she didn't decide to drink from the bottles under the sink. If you're in an unfamiliar environment, you've got to watch your kid like a hawk.

And echobrake writes:

YTA. agreed.

How is the homeowner suppose to know you have kids? Why should someone else child proof their house when you are the guest.... not even a guest but a business contact.

What sort of person beings their kid on house tour and let’s them run amok like a McDonald’s play place? A irresponsible parent who thinks they can do no wrong that’s who.

OP perfectly proves this point.

It's always weird when a bunch of strangers on the internet are completely sane and 100% correct.

Safe sex, especially with a new partner, is incredibly important.

Everyone has a right to protect their own bodies and if that means lying in order to take extra precaution, so be it.

When a woman onReddit's "Am I the As*hole" section asked if she was in the wrong for pretending she wasn't on birth control in order to use condoms, the internet was ready to help. The fact that she even felt insecure enough to ask is a glaring problem with the way we communicate in sexual relationships. Pressuring anyone to have unprotected sex is wrong, regardless of whether or not a woman may be on birth control. Birth control doesn't protect against STDs and there are many cases of failed birth control.

AITA for lying about my birth control use?

The way the question is phrased, it's unclear if maybe this woman is pretending she's on birth control in order to have unprotected sex and therefore become pregnant? Turns out, though, the story is more complicated...

I've been on the Nexplanon for a while, but whenever I have a new partner, I tell them I'm not on birth control so we have to use condoms. I do this because in the past people have been pushy about not using condoms when they find out about my birth control. And even though I have Nexplanon, I still want to be safe and use condoms but it seems like most of my past sexual partners don't understand and start pressuring me to let them go raw.

Recently I started dating a guy and he wanted unprotected sex so I told him I'm not on birth control so we ended up using condoms. While we were cuddling, he was sort of massaging me and felt my implant in my arm (and saw the mini scar left from it). I told him I actually have the Nexplanon and he got mad at me for lying about having birth control and then asked me to leave. So am I the asshole?

Update: Wow thanks guys. I was not expecting this much free therapy. From this post I realized that yeah, I need to stand up for myself more and not be as easily swayed.

So basically I explained my perspective and past experiences with the issue to him and he thought I was being paranoid and untrusting of him by making him wear a condom. Essentially he said he felt bad for me that I had to lie about my BC but that if I couldn't trust him enough to go bareback, then he doesn't want to be with someone who doesn't trust him. We mutually decided it wasn't going to work out.

Thanks for all the support and advice. I am definitely going to start working on growing a backbone and being more upfront about my requirement for condoms despite having bc.

This woman is 100% entitled to protecting herself, regardless of how much her new partner craves condom-free sex.

"Fleetdancer" wrote:

You need to raise your standards. A lot. If you have to lie to the guy, don't fuck him.

"BoyceinBoise" wrote:

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

I have the arm implant for my birth control method, however this does not prevent against STDS. Condoms and other protective barriers when practicing safe sex are necessary when communicating with a partner your needs. Address your needs openly & honestly.

If they get mad about it, or ty to guilt you until lesser forms of total protection - don’t let them get near you goddess.

You earned your right to safe sex. You earned your right to birth control. You earned your right to independence & bodily autonomy.

Don’t let ANYONE, EVER take it from you or make you feel ‘less-than’ for asserting your right to engage in consensual sex. ❤️

"theviolethold" wrote:

If guys are trying to pressure you to not use condoms whether you have BC or not, they are scumbags that aren’t worth being with. In addition, what exactly was that guy mad about? The lie itself? I doubt that, because it sounds like he was just mad he didn’t get to have unprotected sex with you (like a huge douche).

"andwhiskersonkittens" wrote:

Nexaplon won't protect you from STIS so I think you are being very responsible.

The guy who kicked you out sounds like a total bellend.

"2715murder" wrote:

He’s trash. Stop sleeping with men you feel you have to lie to, just for a condom to be used. That should be your new golden rule. Be honest and if they refuse, leave that situation. Even better, make it clear via texts before a situation can escalate. He wasn’t mad you lied, he’s mad he had to use a condom.

Use condoms and stay safe, everyone!

The tradition of a father walking his daughter down the aisle is based on the antiquated concept of him giving her away in exchange for a dowry or price. The emotional legacy also suggests him releasing his patriarchal authority to her husband, which is cringe inducing to think about now.

However, despite the sexist history, a lot of weddings still include this tradition and reframe it as a bonding moment between father and daughter. Instead of a dad giving his daughter away as a prize, he is recognizing her autonomy as an adult and reflecting on the years he spent raising her.

Naturally, this moment gets more complicated when a family is divorced and a daughter has a bio dad and a stepdad.

In a recent post on the Am I The *sshole subreddit, a dad asked if he was wrong for refusing to walk his daughter down the aisle alongside her stepdad of many years.

"AITA for telling my daughter [26F] that I [55M] will not walk down the aisle with her stepdad [50M]."

"My wife and I divorced when my daughter was 6 years old, and my wife had custody of my daughter for the most part since I was too busy working 50 hours a week, she quickly moved on to be with another man 7 years younger than her. I knew from many stories I've heard that my daughter would probably end up being closer to him than me, since not only was our time together very limited but he was a stay at home dad, which means they had plenty of time to bond together which makes me feel sick to this day. This may sound immature but I made her promise to never ever call her stepdad(dad), that I was her only father and to not betray me."

OP split from his ex when his daughter was just 6, and soon after the stepdad entered the picture and was able to spend substantially more time with her.

Over the years, OP made his daughter promise to never call her stepdad "dad," and to always remember he is her blood dad.

"But I have no control over what she or they do in their home. Fast forward to now my prediction came through and she's obviously closer to her step dad than me. She has gotten engaged about a year ago and now that the wedding is approaching near(1 month or so) she's now out of the blue told me that she wants both me and her stepdad to walk her down the aisle after promising me I would be the one to do it."

Rather than pick one of her father figures, OP's daughter requested they both walk her down the aisle at her wedding.

However, OP doesn't want to share the duties and claims his daughter is breaking a years long promise by including the stepdad in this moment.

"Even though I know they're very close, I don't believe he has any right to walk my blood daughter down the aisle. I am her only father, it isn't fair that he got to be with my daughter more than me, her bio dad, and now he wants to take this moment from me too. I got a bit angry and told her I absolutely will not share an honor that is meant for me the actual father of the bride with some guy I barely know. She told me he's done a lot for her growing up and that I'm being petty over something that happened years ago. I told her I wasn't going to argue about it and if she wants her stepdad to walk her she can, but I won't be there to see it."

OP told his daughter he refuses to participate in the wedding if her stepdad walks her down the aisle, and that it's unfair her stepdad gets claim on yet another significant moment.

"I was told by a friend of mine who uses this site quite often that many people have gone through something similar to this with their kids or parents, so I wanted to see other people's perspective, on if it's wrong for me to want to be the only one to walk my only daughter down the aisle."

Demoncratic666 thinks OP is being a complete jerk.

"YTA - It's HER day and you're already ruining shit."

ChronicKhaleesi thinks OP is showing his true colors by how he writes about the situation.

"YTA. So you can't be an adult and put aside your feelings for one day for your daughter? Why are you making her choose? What's so horrible about her wanting both of her father figures to walk her down the aisle? Her mom remarrying a younger guy literally has nothing to do with the story. You sound jealous and bitter."

"Edit: Looking at OPs replies just validates what a massive ego this guy has. I hope her daughter can still have a beautiful wedding with her actual (step) dad."

cpumaxhi thinks it's telling OP isn't happier that his daughter has a loving stepdad.

"YTA.

My own dad did this selfish shit to me and our relationship has never been the same. You made your daughter promise to be loyal to you? What kind of sick shit is that to put on your child? Since becoming a parent myself, and a divorced one at that who has secondary custody, I love ANYONE who loves my child. How blessed your daughter would have been to have two amazing fathers by her side — but you’re too fucking wrapped in your own goddamn ego for her to have that."

rishcast laid out all of the ways OP is wrong in this situation.

"YTA, and you've clearly been one all her life.

"You made a 6 year old child promise something that you've been manipulating her with and "reminding" her about through her life."

"You've clearly been bitter about your ex daring to move on and get remarried, because you "knew" they would be closer since they spent more time together. That isn't the case - you can be close to a person without spending every waking moment with them. Where it becomes difficult is when they are bitter and insist of bad-mouthing the other people in your life - children are smart. She knew exactly what you were doing, and as she grew older and realized just how bitter you were, her emotions understandably caught up to your manipulation."

"You're making the one day in her life that is undoubtedly about her, about you. You're forcing her to choose, so I hope you aren't surprised when she chooses the person who brought her up with love, instead of bitterness."

"Having both "fathers" walking a bride down the aisle can be the most heartwarming moment ever: https://www.today.com/parents/dad-surprises-stepdad-daughters-wedding-both-walking-bride-down-aisle-t46981"

"But based on the person you've been since you and your ex split? I hope your daughter not only chooses the man that raised her well, but also chooses to given him the title he deserves far more than you - that of dad.

Biology doesn't a father make, and your post proves that beyond a doubt. YTA."

Hopefully OP uses this thread as an opportunity to take inventory of how he treats his daughter. If not, it's good to know she at least has a loving stepdad.

5. Brett Kavanaugh, because there are new allegations of sexual misconduct, and Democratic candidates are calling for his impeachment.

While Brett Kavanaugh would like nothing more then to enjoy his cushy lifetime job of rubber-stamping Trump's agenda and taking rights away from women and working people, a New York Timesreport reignited the conversation on how his judicial opinions aren't the only sh*tty thing about him.

Over the weekend, the Times published the piece that had a one-two punch of confirming Deborah Ramirez's allegation that Kavanaugh shoved his penis in her face at a party, and highlighting just how much of a sham the FBI investigation into these claims were.

Per NYT:

A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly.

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said that Stier called his office with the information about Kavanaugh last fall, and that the FBI refused to follow up.

Yikes. It's almost like powerful institutions run by the powerful work to protect the powerful.

At his confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh didn't say, "I was a drunken bro in high school and college but I have changed! Mea culpa!" Instead, he said, "every single person with something to say about me is LYING," which means that he lied under oath.

Many presidential candidates are saying that he's gotta go.

Double the impeachments, double the fun.

4. The Long Island judge who plead guilty to breaking into his neighbor's house to steal her underwear.

Speaking of judges who are sex offenders, Suffolk County District Court Judge Robert Cicale has plead guilty to burglary after attempting to steal women's underwear.

CBS New Yorkreports that Cicale "unlawfully entered his neighbor’s home on Donna Place in East Islip on March 29, 2018," and when he "realized a female resident was home, he ran off."

While the crime was over a year ago, he is only owning up to it now, and that the episode wasn't his first panty raid.

"Officials say Cicale admitted he had entered the home multiple times in the past and stolen underwear from a hamper," CBS writes.

Cicale is scheduled to be sentenced on November 15th. Odds are he's going to have to refister as a sex offender, and needless to say, he is currently suspended from his judgeship.

3. Joe Keery, because people are roasting his bonkers bowl cut.

When Stranger Things first premiered, the character Steve Harrington became everybody's summer crush thanks to his effortless charm and magnificient head of hair, which you just know smells magnificent.

But as Robert Frost so eloquently wrote, "So dawn goes down to day/Nothing gold can stay."

Actor Joe Keery got a haircut—a choppy bowl cut with big Dumb and Dumber energy—and fans are in mourning.

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with bangs.

2. Liam Hemsworth, because he found out about his separation from Miley Cyrus the same way that you did: on social media.

The tabloids are really pushing this Sad Liam Hemsworth narrative, with new reports painting the hunk as a husband trying to patch things up with Miley, who came in like a wrecking ball.

According toPage Six, Hemsworth found out about the dissolution of his own marriage from social media, when he was Down Under in Australia:

Sources close to [Liam Hemsworth] told us he was blindsided by the statement — and was in Australia at the time. Hours after Cyrus’ statement, images of her smooching new girlfriend Kaitlynn Carter surfaced. The singer then seemed to address the split in a cryptic Instagram caption saying, “Don’t fight evolution, because you will never win” — and by Aug. 12 she was teasing a new tune about the breakup. Hemsworth didn’t publicly address the split until days later.

It's unclear whether the orders to paint Hemsworth as a Sad Boy wronged by Miley Cyrus comes from Page Six's fanfiction department or his own team, but somebody somewhere wants us to weep for the man.

Cyrus's relationship with Carter is reportedly heating up, as they engage in PDA in matching outfits and dine with Miley's mom.

Meanwhile, Hemsworth was last seen moping around an Australian frozen yogurt shop, Instagramming sunsets.

1. The lawmaker who got pooped on by a pigeon when talking about pigeon poop.

Illinois State Rep. Jaime Andrade was giving an interview on the bird poop epidemic at a Chicago transit station when a generous pigeon gave a live demonstration.

"I think they just got me," he said while talking to WBBM-TV.

Not to be crass, but this is f*cking hilarious. Bird crap is a sign of good luck, Rep. Andrade is sure to get the Chicago Transit Authority to install the hose line for power washing that he's been asking for.

Dating is hard for everyone, but straight men seem to be especially bad at it. The romantic comedy institution is basically founded on this principle. Yet, in life and in romantic comedies, women often forgive guys their blunders during the dating phase of a relationship and go on to tie the knot with them anyway. Maybe it's because we need someone to help us change light-bulbs and make babies. Maybe love just makes us blind. Whatever the reason, both men and women seem to agree that it's pretty unbelievable some of the things women will overlook when they love a guy.

Someone recently asked married men of Reddit: "what was that dumb thing you did during your dating phase that you can’t believe your wife ended up overlooking?"

Here are 23 stories from married men and women who made it down the aisle in spite of these hilarious missteps along the way:

1.) MadHarryRackham writes:

Turned her down when she suggested we go on a date. Read as: I'm super awkward

I was working for Starbucks, she was a regular customer. I was new in town and noticed her a couple times, she was a regular customer and we got to some small talk, chatting about places to eat. She said there's an amazing taco place down the road, we should go sometime. I misheard her, thinking she said "you should go sometime". I replied with "I'll definitely check it out!" I handed her a drink and she left very awkwardly.

She was back in the next day and, against all odds, I was able to clear up the misunderstanding and I wrote my number on her Starbucks cup.

We went to that taco place for our first date and she was right, it was amazing.

3 years married and 2 kids later... Really glad she saw through my awkwardness.

2.) From RMBK:

I forgot her name once when introducing her to a friend. This was maybe a month into our relationship. I was all like, "hey and by the way this is.... uhhh.... my girlfriend."

3.) From mollyjean-:

Not my story, but my parents: Some backstory - My dad has a brother who’s only a couple years older. Growing up, they’d commonly try to steal food off each other’s plates just to be assholes to each other. This was remedied by plate guarding and defensive maneuvers with utensils if hands got too close.

On my parent’s first date, my mom reached for something to try off my dad’s plate and he instinctively stabbed her hand with his fork - drew blood and everything. He was obviously mortified Glad my mom was crazy enough to keep dating, marry, and procreate with the fork stabber.

4.) From homepup:

Played Weird Al CDs non-stop for a 6-hour car trip to the beach.

She didn’t ditch me but haven’t been allowed to play Weird Al in her presence for the past 24 years. Got tickets to see him this year on our anniversary and knew better than to ask her to join me so I took a couple of my kids that appreciate the finer things in life. Best anniversary gift ever. Great show.

5.) From thevagrant88:

On my first date with my wife, we got to talking about tattoos. I have a rule that if I have an idea for a tattoo, I sit on it for a while to see if I really would still want it. I mentioned this to her and explain how glad I am that I do this because otherwise I'd be covered in Tool (the band) tattoos or some "other dumb shit". She rolled up her sleeve to show me that she had the lyrics to one of their songs tattooed across her arm.

EDIT: The lyrics are "All this pain is an illusion" from Parabola.

For the record, I don't really hate Tool. I just used to be super into them in high school and have since grown out of them. I still put them on once in a while.

EDIT2: My oldest brother unironically has a Creed tattoo on his leg. There's always somebody out there who has it worse than you.

6.) juicemari writes:

My husband broke my thumb one night when we were slightly tipsy. Horse play got too rough and I think (drunk memory) he slammed my hand against something. we both heard the pop and I went to tears.

7.) From designgoddess:

My husband kept calling me by the name of his previous girl friend on our first date. I finally told him to give her a call because they clearly had unfinished business to talk about. He did and she reminded him why he was happy to have her out of his life. And he never called me by her name again. 40 years later and it seems to have worked out in my favor.

8.) From olivesamantha:

Not the married man but on probably our third or fourth date, my man, mixed our soups. I got a watermelon gazpacho (a cold soup) and he got a seafood bisque. Im a sharer so we both tasted and didnt love mine but we loved his. After the tasting, he boldly yet nervously states "mine is so great; i got this" while pouring our two soups into one. It was the worst luke warm thing ive ever tasted. Five years later and weve never mixed soups again...too risky.

9.) From stumpytoes:

Accidentally set her hair on fire with a match while lighting a cigarette. Not good. We are still married 29 years later. I dont smoke anymore.

10.) From PiccadillyPorch:

I didn’t really do it but I thought he would be weirded out anyways. Very first time he stayed at my house (after about three hours of my two male roommates trying to make him uncomfortable), we went to bed and he put his contacts in two shot glasses of water because he had no case with him. I don’t know if that’s a dumb thing to do. I’ve never worn them. Maybe we were drinking and that seemed like a good idea? Anyways... he had never had a pet and was kind of weirded out by my cat standing beside him and yell-meowing at him all night (“Is that normal? Is he mad at me or something?”). Woke up the next day to find out the cat drank all the water from the shot glasses, contacts included. I had to help him home because he is seriously blind without them. He still wanted to see me again even though the night was weird, and the cat became his best friend, despite some initial skepticism on both their parts.

Edit: I just asked him why we put his contacts in water and he said it was contact solution from one of my roommates who had contacts but no spare case for him to borrow so we used the shot glasses. Makes so much more sense. And Chuki was fine after drinking the solution, though we did call the vet. Totally forgot that part. Well, it was 17 years ago...

11.) From jediwafflez:

I was sitting on the couch as we were playing Wii bowling. She was standing behind the couch, lovingly holding me. I draw back the Wii mote and WHAM! I wack her in the face with the Wii mote at full strength. Her mom was also in the room.

12.) From notneededjunk:

We had a couple great dates and things were looking promising. Then I got super busy at work and didn’t contact her for about 3 and a half weeks without giving her a heads up. She decided to move during this time. After things calmed down at work I text her again. We worked things long distance and finally got married. She reminds me that I didn’t ask her out again for a very long time every few months.

13.) From WomanNotAGirl:

I can tell you for him. We were leaving his new apartment. Keep in mind we’ve been dating for a short amount of time. We haven’t been through a lot of firsts yet. His apartment was on the back of the building so we had to walk through a small passage to get to the other side in order to leave. Imagine this passage is slightly shadowed but the light shoots through it so it creates this romantic silhouette. As we left his apartment and walked into this passage area he grabs my hand and pulls me towards himself (I’m thinking awe he is going to put my hand around his waist, how romantic!), locks my hand on his butt and loudly farts. It was a very brave move for a new couple.

We’ve been married for 13 years now.

14.) From kohdgen:

On our second date, I arrived 1h late. When I went to greet her with a little hug (yep, that's how we greet people around here) I accidentally knocked her phone off her hand. It hit the ground and cracked the screen, but I wasn't sure if it was already cracked. I apologized, she said it was ok and that the screen was already like that before.

Almost a year later she confessed that I actually broke her phone that day. She had just gotten it from her mom (all phones she ever had were second hand, very simple ones) and she couldn't afford a new one at the time, but still she lied and kept using the broken phone so I wouldn't feel bad. My heart sank.

We've been married for two years now and I've given her a brand new flagship phone every year ever since.

15.) From CopperMeerkat20:

Wife here, but about three weeks into dating, my husband invited me to a house party at his best friends place. We were playing beer pong having fun. The other team is up, they toss the ball, I lean forward to try to block it, my now husband extends his hand out in front of me at the same time, catching the ball but at the same time hitting me in the eye and some how pulling out 3/4 of my eyelashes. He felt terrible about it and tried to burn off his eyelashes in drunken sympathy. He hates when I bring it up but I think it is the funniest story!

16.) From mydadisindianajones:

I know what my husband would say, because I still tease him to this day.

We had been dating for two weeks and were spooning on his futon, watching a movie. Out of nowhere he says, "I'm really sorry, I can't hold it in anymore." And rips a HUGE fart.

My husband was a very clean, tight knit, prudish kind of guy, so I couldn't help but let out the biggest laugh while he turned about as red as his beard.

17.) marzipanrouge writes:

Wife here! About 3 weeks into dating, my husband thought it would be romantic to pick me up and spin me around in his driveway. Unfortunately, it was not his most brilliant idea and he tripped and we fell right on to the concrete next to my car.

Reader, he landed on top of me.

18.) From CaughtAllTheBreaks:

Insisted that everything in San Francisco was walking distance from everything else, and decided we should walk from Pier 39 to Golden Gate Park. It IS walkable, but not third-date walkable, or whatever-shoes-she-happened-to-be-wearing-that-day walkable.

19.) From Birdamus:

We were taking a shower together and she was soaping up while I was under the hot water rinsing off and she slipped and instead of grabbing/helping her I pulled away, thinking for some reason that I’d already rinsed off and didn’t want to get soapy. Thank god she caught herself on the shower curtain and didn’t get hurt. She was, uh, not happy. My explanation of my faulty thinking didn’t help at all, either. We laugh about it now but it took some serious smoothing over at the time.

20.) From loveofmoz:

We drank a lot on our second date, Ubered home. Next day went back to get his car, and it wasn't there. He was so devastated. He just bought it recently and it was stolen. We filed a police report. Took forever and just generally sucked. We walked to his friend's house nearby, and there was his car, perfectly un-stolen. He drank so much he forgot he moved it before our date. Now, once in a while when we're trying to find our car in the grocery store parking lot or wherever, one of us will say "It's stolen. Call the police."

21.) From MapleDanish:

She was about to sneeze and she was sitting half on my lap so I kinda thought she was gonna sneeze on me and idk what I was thinking but I put my hand up to block her sneeze except I had a glass in my hand and I blocked her own hand from covering her sneeze and instead she slammed her face into my glass.

Married 6 years now. She still has all her teeth.

22.) From Gnartian:

I made myself a burger for dinner before heading over to her place to hang out. Unfortunately I'm not the best cook and left a little too much pink in that burger. While we were at her house I bet her I could fit through the doggy door and crawled right through. Then she immediately closed it behind me and we raced to the front door, she won and she locked it. Now at this exact moment my bowels decided they had enough of that burger from earlier and I felt my stomach cramp. Luckily I held it all in and ran back to the back door with my cheeks clenched and starting knocking desperately in the door. She was laughing at first but when she saw my face go suddenly serious and I said very calmly "I need you to open the door.... Now please." She unlocked the door and asked if I was okay, I told her to stay downstairs and turn the TV up loud. She agreed but was very confused. So I ran upstairs and then had one of the most violent shits of my whole life. I thought the worst was behind me until I went to wipe.... And of course no TP. So she took my instructions really well and when I yelled to her, texted her, and called her I got no answer. After probably like 10 missed calls she finally answered and I asked her to bring me some TP and leave outside the door and try not to breathe on the way upstairs. She was great about it and immediately started making fun of me when I came back downstairs. Now quite a few years later a couple kids and cat, she's still making fun of me.

23.) From ItsProbablyAVulture:

It wasn't until after we were married that my wife told me that I almost didn't get a second date because I talked waaaaaaaaaaaay too much during the movie. I don't really remember it but apparently I was leaning over every 30 seconds or so to tell her what I was thinking. Also, "Valkyrie", with Tom Cruise probably wasn't that great of a date movie, but it all worked out in the end.

ETA: Please forgive me my movie-talking sins, everybody. I was a dumb teenager and she's really pretty. I was just quite anxious for things to go well.

It's far too easy to let insecurities and anxiety paint a picture of alienation inside our heads. Most of the time, other people are too busy thinking about themselves to care about whether you're acting awkward or out of place. This often creates a feedback loop of anxious people getting in their heads and accidentally making others even more anxious.

While the concept of "fitting in" is a concept largely enforced to make people feel bad about their differences and fear self-expression, there are situations that can be summed up as nothing less than fish out of water.

Luckily, looking back on times we felt out place place can be equal parts funny and enlightening.

In a recent Reddit thread, people shared the moments they felt themselves not fitting in, and the stories range from heartbreaking to sitcom worthy.

1. DJ_Dilemma did not bond with the bosses on the ski trip.

"Went on the company ski trip which sounds posher than it actually is and we have to pay for it out of our wages."

"Had to sit on a dinner table with the heads of the company and some other high up people from different companies and the stuff they were talking about in terms of leisure activities were well out of my league. When you try to join the conversation and you get a patronizing smile from one of them who doesn't engage you conversation has a strange effect on you."

Finished my dinner and fucked off to the bar."

2. MisunderstandingMatt went to the wrong meeting.

"In 2007 I went to what I thought was my first AA meeting. It was being held at a church, and when I walked in to where the meeting was supposed to take place there was 5-6 other men sitting down. I took a seat, and after a couple of moments pass, the meeting starts. If my memory is correct, I was asked to introduce myself, So I said, "My name is **** ********* and I'm an alcoholic." After a few moments, one of the men let me know that I was at a S*x Addicts Anonymous meeting. I apologized and left. Felt really weird about it at the time, but now I just laugh about it."

3. Applejuice_TURBO went to the wrong convention.

"I watched a lot of Pokemon when I was like 8. I went to a local anime convention and I was sooo confused and awkward. Everyone was in cosplay and talking about anime and I just sat there looking at my pokemon cards all depressed."

4. ArrozConLechePlease met their grandpa figure during a moment of isolation.

"My first holiday in foster care was Christmas 2010. I was 14 years old; a freshman in high school. I missed my family and I didn’t know anyone there except my foster parents. I felt completely like an alien amongst 50 people. I was young, scared, and alone."

"I went on my phone and my foster mom raised her voice and told me to get off. That made me snap and I started tearing up so I went outside in the cold to cry by myself so I wouldn’t make a scene. I cried behind a car in the dark in the snow that fell a few days prior."

"This old man comes outside and calmly talks to me. He tells me that he used to be in foster care too. I don’t remember what he said exactly, but he made me laugh and feel a little better."

"That old man turned out to be who I would call Grandpa Earnie a few years down the road. He passed away a couple springs ago. He always made sure everyone felt welcomed and always would break tension/silence with a joke that made everyone laugh. He went through his own hell growing up and he did his best to make sure no one else had to."

5. headrik14 accidentally channeled Tom Hanks in Big.

"Wanted to learn to play guitar - found out about a class for beginner sessions for adults. Call up, they say yeah come along we have a mixed group and we will see you in the morn. Great."

"Turn up to this little church like building and head in. Guy says ‘you must be (me - 27-28 at time), take a seat and we will get going in a min’. Please note I’m first to arrive and the seats were tiny but I didn’t think anything of it at the time - just assumed it was what was available."

"Next min a group of small children rush in and take their places (about 5-6 years old) with their guitars. Teacher starts taking the lesson, I’m obv feeling awkward as I’m like Tom hanks in Big and wanting to get out as soon as poss but too polite to just get up and walk out."

"Teacher then announces that we will be getting up on stage at the end to show ‘what we’ve learned’ please note all these little shits are 10x better than me but I’m committed now and maybe it won’t be so bad..."

"...Until the door opens and all of the parents walk in to watch the ‘show’.

So there I was - sitting on a little chair with my knees higher than my head strumming along to some tune I couldn’t play surrounded by 5-6 year old and parents looking at me with that face you know wants to laugh."

"EDIT: wow! just woke up to a ton of notifications - only this week have I received my first silver and now I have more golds and silvers! Many thanks!

So I read all of your comments and had a good laugh along the way through listening to your stories! A few answers for you guys..."

"Mixed group - no idea how this went from mixed to a group of 5-6 year olds but I didn’t want to say anything at the end as the kids/parents were still there. I just wanted to get out of there as quickly possible!"

"Did I carry on? With that group - no way! With guitar? Kind of but not really... I can play a couple of easy bits now but didn’t really stick it through so it was all for nothing anyway!"

"The story - yeah it was really embarrassing at the time, the look of one particular parent is engraved into my soul, like a mixture of trying to hold laugh in/ you fucked up / I can’t wait to tell my mates about this. It’s never failed to give people a laugh when I’ve told them about it and I’m glad it has made you guys a smile / LOL!"

6. Atomicrex2015 went to a party that felt like a music video.

"I'm a white guy who's into alt rock and I had some Jamaican friends at work. They invited me to a basement party they called a "splash".. Exactly like what you see in the Sean Paul "get busy" video. I loved it and everyone was very cool but maaan did I feel like I stuck out."

7. krezgobop was with people who went from 0-100 real quick.

"In southwestern Australia. I was there working for a bit and went out with some locals. We were walking home from the bar when one of them said he wanted to go for a bit of a longer walk, so we detoured around another block. Suddenly we were walking through the bush and then we pop out the other side near this sketchy house. A really sketchy dude comes out, looks at me and asks one of the guys who I am. They say I’m Canadian and he asks me a few questions ( presumably to hear my accent). Then they hand him a few hundred dollars and he hands them a few small bags of drugs."

"On the way home, the guys I’m with stop, open up one of the bags and smash the contents up on a rock and snort it. I politely decline. Suddenly everyone I’m with is high on meth. Once I was familiar with the area we were in I got the f*ck out of there."

8. TooManyBreads got plopped into a scene from Eyes Wide Shut.

"A friend invited me to a party at his friend's place. Everyone was dressed in animal masks (not as in furries, this was like, black tie formal but with people wearing realistic giraffe masks). My friend seemed confused that I was dressed normally. I do not speak to him anymore."

"I still don't know what the deal with that place was."

9. DepressedBukowski feels out of water with their own dad.

"My mum and dad have been divorced since I was 8 years old, so 20 years. My dad has a girlfriend who he's recently moved in with. She has adult children, and young grandchildren. Anyway, it was my dads birthday a little while ago, and I went over to see him and over the time I was there, more of his girlfriends family turned up."

"I didn't fit in, my Dad has kept us very separate until the last 12 months, and I've worked really hard on my relationship with my Dad over the last few years, but had thought he wasn't able to give me the relationship I wanted to have with him, and i'd come to terms that that is how he is. Except it's not how he is, at all. Because he has that relationship with his partners children and grandkids, and I sat there feeling ridiculously out of place. I didn't fit in. He only lives 25 mins away, but they've all made very little effort with me, but they all see each other a lot."

"I didn't fit in, and I left after 4 hours, driving back to my home with tears in my eyes, wondering why I was so upset. And then I realized, it's because, once again, it's just another situation where I don't fit in. And Im not gonna lie, that little 8 year old girl inside of me cried a lot for a week or so. It was by far the worst "I don't fit in here" experience I've had yet. It broke my heart a little, actually. Sorry for rambling. I guess I kinda kept that to myself."

10. Billie_needs_a_Mop had a rough time returning to their birth country.

"I'm expat Dutch. Meaning I was born there, and have a passport. Moving to the Netherlands as a teenager for the first time did not go well.

Teenagers are a*sholes, but even more so if you are any kind of foreign. And don't speak the language perfectly."

11. nathanator179 felt out of place at the ASD group.

"I have mild autism and I decided to try doing an autism meet up with other autistic people. Everyone else was way more severe than me. It was fine and an interesting perspective but it wasn't my kind of place"

12. Repent2019 found a university where they fit.

"I am a college professor. Got my first job out of grad school, quit at the end of the second year. Found out while quitting that they were about to fire me. It was one of the ten largest universities in the USA."

"Today I teach at a tiny liberal arts college. Been there over a decade, and they vote me professor of the year an average of once every three years. Here I fit. There I didn’t. “There” was big, research-driven, prestige-hungry. “Here,” they want me to take good care of the students. That I can do. I love my job."

13. 4DDTANK feels weird at back to school night.

"Going to back to school night. I am a single dad and not wealthy. Well, not financially. My kids go to a school in a very affluent neighborhood. The dad to mom ratio was roughly 3/10. They all had very expensive clothes and jewelry. Here I am in my shorts and a tee shirt. Most of the cars were Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, any were Tesla, Maserati, or some other exotic. Luckily my kids don't seem to feel it nor are they mistreated. So that's good."

14. brotherbobby420 was the normie in a goth school.

"I went to a alternative school everyone was goth and i was just a normal kid that was playing sports and stuff and wearing colorful clothes with kids in all black."

15. CuttingEdgeRetro can code-switch but sometimes it doesn't translate.

"I've always felt like I fit in two very different crowds. I'm very at home with a group of redneck friends out camping and hunting for the weekend. And I can fit in at formal business dinner type settings."

"One time I was invited to what I thought was the latter by my employer. I'm very middle class. But I was completely out of my element. It was a silent charity auction for disabled children. They had various donated items up for auction. You could add your name to a list with your bid. And someone else could add a higher bid under that. The cheapest thing they had to bid on was a Barbie doll. It was $375. I didn't bid on anything. Later that evening I was talking to a co-worker who was a friend of the owner. He told me he won a horse. Yeah, didn't fit in."

16. cnk_carrie got paired with a racist.

"I had just moved to a school and I had been put with a " Buddy" to sit with and to show me around school. At that time I had straightened my hair a LOT and I am very light skinned. Well I sat with my buddy and her friends and they legit started saying stuff like " Look at that ugly A** Beaner" and "Hey n****a" or "Wassup my n****a" " They need to go back to their huts in Africa" and It appeared to me that they either didn't know I was black or wanted to make it very clear that they didn't like me"

17. Wam_2020 avoids Dutch Bros because of the aggressive customer service.

"At the drive thru window at Dutch Bros coffee. Their super sweet, cheerful and it’s their job to “connect” with customers; but I feel like I need to rehearse what I’m going to talk about before I get there. Social anxiety keeps my a loyal Starbucks customer. I’m sorry."

18. pm-me-racecars tried to evangelize at the club.

"My first time out drinking after I turned legal age I ended up in the smoke pit of the strip club talking about Jesus."

19. cmalarkey90 receives a lot of judgement in the music scene.

"I'm in a metal band and love playing the music and love listening to the music, but when we play shows I feel out of place among the other members if the scene because nearly everyone I know and interact with are potheads/drunks/party animals and I'm not about that. I drink casually but don't get drunk as I fear becoming an alcoholic because my family has a history of it. In contrast I'm very subdued and work hard to maintain success in my career."

"I'm the only "white collar" in the scene in my area, which makes me feel like an outclass, especially since a good portion of them who are "blue collar" make more than I do lol. I do like the people in the scene, some are amazing friends, and the vocalist in my band is like a brother to me but I sometimes feel uncomfortable with the whole scene. I also feel like an asshole around them when I mention my career because I'm afraid I sound like I think I'm above everyone or something. But I can't imagine not playing music anymore, it feels amazing when I'm actually playing."

20. Saint_of_Stinkers had more fun under a bridge.

"I was at a low point in my life. Unemployed, no support, hungry and dressed in worn working class clothing. I was out with a buddy, who had as little class as I did at the time. We somehow had managed to find a few dollars and figured we should go have a drink. Unfortunately the place we went to was full of sailors. Not burly longshoremen, not Popeye and not shifty eyed cut throats."

"No, these were the kind of sailors that owned and raced yachts. We go in, walk out to the patio and stop. Everyone there was white. Everyone there was dressed in white. The entire patio went quiet, and literally everyone stared at us. We immediately turned tail and left. I think we ended up sharing a bottle of cheap wine under a bridge that day.

Funny thing is I bet we had much more fun under that bridge than we would have had surrounded by all those clean young snoticals."

If you don't spend your whole workday on Twitter, unlike your favorite bloggers and President Trump, you will have missed that the number one trend for hours today was none other than the name Ben Shapiro.

Shapiro is a professional right-wing ranter and hot take haver, despite the fact that he could have had a lucrative career doing voices for Alvin and the Chipmunks. On Monday, he discussed the renewed discussion over the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

"The Cool Kid's Philosopher" Shapiro said that there's no way they can be true, because we haven't heard any descriptions of Kavanaugh's genitalia.

"We’ve had a bevy of public figures in recent years, who have had their genitalia described on national television by people who alleged sexual assault. Right, Stormy Daniels famously described President Trump’s genitalia, Bill Clinton’s genitalia, details of such were talked about," Shapiro said. "Nobody has yet described Kavanaugh’s genitalia—now that’s not dispositive, maybe they were generic, who knows."

Last fall, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh to the nation's highest court despite Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's sworn testimony that he assaulted her in high school. Over the weekend,The New York Times published a report about Kavanaugh's college days. In the midst of the confirmation battle, Deborah Ramirez said that while they were at Yale, "Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it."

"At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez’s mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge," The Times wrote. "Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred, suggesting that it was discussed among students at the time."

The article also mentioned a previously unreported incident. A fellow classmate named Max Stier said he "saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student." The woman declined to be interviewed, but "friends say she does not recall the episode."

Shapiro's demand for a detailed description of Kavanaugh's penis raises questions, including, "Does Ben Shapiro know how sexual assault works?"

There's not always a penis involved, and if there is, women are a bit busy being under attack to take mental pictures for people who are already inclined not to believe them.

The bar these guys set for women in order to be believed keeps getting higher and higher—and grosser.

Just admit that you don't care if somebody's a sexual predator as long as they're enforcing your agenda, this is taking forever.

Comedian Shane Gillis has been fired from "Saturday Night Live," the show announced today, just days after announcing that he had been hired. In case you're not on Twitter, because you have a life or whatever, let me summarize: clips of Gillis making racist impression of Chinese people on a podcast, and other clips of him using sexist, racist and homophobic language, were shared on Twitter after news of his hiring broke last week. As more evidence of his offensive language was unearthed by the internet, people on Twitter called for him to be fired.

SNL has made their opinions on the matter clear today, releasing this statement:

"The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable," said an SNL spokesperson on behalf of Lorne Michaels, who apparently is too famous to speak for himself. "We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard.” Gillis was one of three new cast members who were announced last week for the show's 45th season, along with Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang.

You can watch the clip at the center of the controversy here, lifted from a 2018 episode of the podcast "Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast":

People on Twitter were outraged by the clip, in which Gillis imitates a stereotypical Chinese accent and mocks Chinatown and Chinese food.

Some interesting points about Chinese food and the myth of MSG were made.

Also: white privilege.

Others predicted that his time as a cast member would not last long.

In addition to this clip, Vulture journalist Megh Wright delved into the comedian's "history of racist and homophobic remarks" in this article.

Of course, a lot of people defended the clip, calling it "hilarious."

While others railed against "PC culture" for "ruining comedy."

In response to the controversy, Gillis himself released this statement last Thursday:

"My intention is never to hurt anyone but I am trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks," he wrote.

Not everyone was impressed by the apology.

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang offered one of the more thoughtful, nuanced takes on the controversy that I've seen over the past few days. He was dragged in to the drama because Gillis apparently called him a "Jew cuck" on a podcast. Yang responded on Twitter with this thread about how he doesn't support Gillis' remarks but also defends his right to make mistakes and hopefully learn from them:

Today, after news that he had been fired from the show, Gillis released this statement:

Damn, what a whirlwind. I need a nap. And some Chinese food.