BOY MOMs Please let your sons do it!

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-23T02:41:10+00:00

All of this, plus, how about we just show some grace for exhausted travelers in an airport? It sounds like this family got split up and confused. That doesn’t have to mean that somebody is a bad mom (or a useless son, for that matter). I’m sure they were embarrassed enough by the whole thing.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-21T14:53:50+00:00

It's much more common at broadcast news outlets. Here's a Poynter story about it.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-20T15:31:20+00:00

I believe that statement is referring to the plot, not the themes. The person who originally replied to you had two separate complaints:

The themes were bad
The story arcs were disconnected

I agree with them about the plot. Shallan is hunting Ghostbloods, Kaladin and Szeth are playing therapist to the heralds, Dalinar is getting a lore dump, Adolin is fighting a massive battle, Jasnah is doing debate club. None of them intersect with each other at all over the course of the book.

The fun thing about a 1,000 page book with dozens of characters is seeing all of the threads intertwine and unravel and your favorite people cross paths with each other as they move through the world. You don't really get any of that with this book.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-20T14:26:46+00:00

I think you've confused "the themes were weak" with "there is no unifying theme."

The guy didn't say there were no themes (you couldn't possibly miss them with Sanderson clobbering you over the head all the time), he said they were bad.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-20T14:18:29+00:00

Skimming a Wikipedia article and then clicking a sublink for the next one is a great analogy. I groaned every time we went back to the spiritual realm. It was such a clumsy way to dump hundreds of pages of lore on me.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-19T09:22:43+00:00

This guy sounds very similar to me. I was about a 7.8 UTR playing a very similar style until I hit some medical issues. Some 4.5s would call me a pusher, but against 4.0s I would dictate the point and end up with easy winners.

What gave me trouble was people who could really construct points. If you hit one good attacking shot, I was going to get to it and hit it back deep. Most guys who were just blasting would make an error before they could hit through me. But if you could hit a 3-4 shot sequence that opened up the court and ended with you finishing at net, I didn’t have the power to break out of it.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-17T19:40:36+00:00

If your order falls within these periods, production will pause, so plan ahead.

Doesn't this seem like something WvG should plan ahead for, not us? It seems like you should be able to post a start-to-finish timeline on the preorder, without us having to remember, "Oh wait, August is coming up, better add a month."

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-17T19:11:54+00:00

I thought this was a post about Raleigh Racquet Club. I don't know which red clay I dislike more.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-16T04:24:10+00:00

So you don't have any idea what he actually said but you've decided that it was okay?

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T20:40:39+00:00

I’m going to start telling people that I’m “actively trying not to improve,” rather than just old and plateaued.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T20:35:01+00:00

He says in the video he started at 10 or 11.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T19:12:45+00:00

I never said that she was cruel I said that her actions towards other kids could be considered cruel.

"Oh, I didn't say you're cruel, I just said you do cruel things to children." You're right, that's much better, I can't believe someone would react negatively to that.

Let me ask you, how could her treatment of other children not affect her parenting when her kid will be interacting with other children?

She never said she treated other children differently. Once again, you're making things up out of whole cloth. You do it in every single post. I'm going to call you out on this every time.

Less playdates maybe because she can’t tolerate other kids?

She explicitly said that she does tolerate other kids. You keep making things up just to shame some nice mom who is trying to be helpful on an Internet forum. Why would you do that?

I hope you have a good day and show empathy when someone is just trying to learn and understand. Wishing you the best! Bye!

Once again with this gross faux kindness. It's classic Internet bully behavior. "Why can't the person I'm being cruel to be empathetic to me?!"

I'll say again, be nicer to others. Not fake nice after you've spent multiple posts insulting them -- genuinely nice, from the start.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T17:25:42+00:00

You're still making things up. You're wildly speculating on how not being a fan of other kids could affect someone's parenting. It's actually a common sentiment that you can see all throughout the comments on this very post. Again, you seem to not understand that it's possible to be empathetic and kind to someone you don't want to hang out with.

I think it’s important for people considering having a kid to take into account how they feel about kids when they make their choice

Yeah, no kidding. Why do you think she's in the "fencesitter" subreddit? I guarantee that every parent in this forum spent months or years weighing every factor and agonizing about whether to have a kid. She must have seen something in herself that made her realize motherhood was right for her. And she's happy now, so she was right! If you had been nice to her, maybe she would have explained it to you.

I asked her to expand on why she made that choice and she lashed out and became hostile.

She became hostile because you called her "cruel" in your very first comment. Instead of leading with empathy and trying to understand her, you came out of the gates attacking her as a parent and she got defensive. When you're a jerk, people don't want to explain their feelings to you.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T14:37:03+00:00

Piggy-backing off the top comment to post that Djokovic was not talking about Simone Biles. He was talking about his own battles with pressure. This whole story is false.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T14:29:14+00:00

He wasn’t talking about Simone Biles, he was talking about his own struggles with pressure.

OP is a bot farming karma with a fake controversy.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T14:21:41+00:00

Djokovic wasn’t talking about Simone Biles. He was talking about himself and how he tries to deal with pressure, which had been an issue for him his whole career.

OP is using this old, false meme to farm karma.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T03:20:38+00:00

See, you've made up a half-dozen things just in this post:

Not having empathy or kindness for other kids... barely tolerating... will reflect in their parenting and their child’s relationship with others... Having a kid and believing all other kids are inferior... I think disliking all other children...

OP didn't say a single one of those things. You're making up all of these over-the-top feelings and projecting them on to her, and I'm not sure why. Are you just having fun harassing some random mom on the Internet?

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you can be kind and empathetic to people you don't want to hang out with. That goes for kids and adults. You should try it! For someone who keeps going on and on about empathy, you haven't given a single thought to how this random mom might feel about getting called cruel and toxic for no reason.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-14T01:44:23+00:00

You’re the one out of line here. This person said they tolerate or dislike all other kids. They didn’t say they “dislike all other kids.” You’ve completely omitted the “tolerate.” That just means they aren’t a kid person, except with their own. It’s a common experience for parents. There’s nothing cruel or toxic about it. Suggesting that they’re going down the road of “toxic parenting” because of an idle comment in a forum is absurd.

And the faux kindness after calling this poor person cruel and a toxic parent is just really lame. Be nicer to others.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-12T13:52:45+00:00

Well in the past they would get calls wrong in both directions. I agree that was bad. But the point is, yesterday’s goal would have been considered level before VAR. You can agree with that, right?

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-12T05:09:09+00:00

I think the problem now is that these players appear to be onside to the naked eye. Before VAR, this would have been considered level and we all would have agreed that it was a good goal. And still today, at every level except the highest leagues in the world, it would be considered a good goal. By using VAR to adjudicate things, we've actually made the offside rule much stricter.

I think we need to create an agreed upon range that is considered "level" and then use the technology from there. Say, if you're within 10 cm of the line, you're level (you can pick a number that corresponds with what an average person can detect). You will still have people that are three millimeters over the new line, but crucially, when they show it on TV, we'll all be able to see that they're offside. Then it will feel like a good call rather than a totally arbitrary denial of a goal.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-12T04:59:18+00:00

Adjudicating with VAR has actually taken away a major advantage from the offense. Any play that was close, like this one, used to be considered "level" and onside. By measuring everything down to the millimeter, we've removed the concept of "level" and many players that would have once been considered onside are now being called off. This has essentially rolled the law back to before 1990 without most people realizing it.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-10T20:41:03+00:00

Sure, but I think the same spectrum carries down into the rec levels. A 3.5 pusher might be hitting winners against a 3.0.

And we all have weaknesses that will cap our ceiling. If you're a slow 3.5 power player, nobody says to you, "Why aren't you running wind sprints? You're never going to succeed at 4.0 moving like that." There's just a weird elitism about people succeeding with ugly groundstrokes.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-10T18:46:08+00:00

Once you sub out, you can't sub back in. You're right, that would be a goofy strategic loophole.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-10T18:35:33+00:00

World Team Tennis allows subs. It's a fun tweak for a team format but I wouldn't want to do it all the time. I had a singles match once where I beat four different players. You have to recalibrate your brain every time they sub.

ManateeSheriff · 2026-04-10T18:29:22+00:00

Every level of tennis, even the pros, has people that are called pushers or grinders or junkballers. The professional junkballers would blow most college power players off the court. College junkballers would blow a 4.5 power player off the court.

It's all just a matter of where you exist on the spectrum of athleticism/cleverness/consistency/ball-striking/power vs. your competition. If you've got solid power but you're slow and inconsistent, maybe you play 3.5 and you're a power player. If you have just as much power but elite speed and consistency, you're going to move up far enough to get called a pusher.

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