Comments on: Wow.

By: sikiş

sikiş — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:17:49 +0000

thanks you
You will have to crawl very nice,owe you gratitude..

By: gravyrug

gravyrug — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:06:15 +0000

Hell, I’ve gone out after midnight for my daughter’s ex-boyfriend. Drunk ex-boyfriend. It’s just something you do for people, if you’re a person.

By: Just Dropping By

Just Dropping By — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:07:08 +0000

I’m with Kevin and the advice columnist on this one. I’ve never had someone call me in the middle of the night for assistance, but unless it’s my parents my respone would almost certainly be to tell them to call the police, or an ambulance, or a taxi, as appropriate.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:24:01 +0000

I’m with her, call a cab or a relative, I’m going back to sleep.

That might be insensitive or not very friendly, but it’s hardly inhuman.

By: Drinking Like ‘Mad Men’

Drinking Like ‘Mad Men’ — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:38:40 +0000

[...] is some sort of elaborate spoof rather than a smart, female-centric magazine. Yesterday, via Julian Sanchez, I came across their insipid advice column saying it pushed the “limits of friendship” [...]

By: dhex

dhex — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:01:32 +0000

it’s entirely possible that she just has lousy friends, is a lousy friend, and doesn’t really get the whole “friendship” thing.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:02:07 +0000

I’ve never rolled out of bed at 4 a.m. to help a friend in distress, but I did once at 2:35. Even if you give Rosenfeld the benefit of the doubt — that she truly thought the letter-writer was merely exhibiting the latest in a string of bad judgments, and her alleged friends were justified in ignoring her — what to make of Rosenfeld’s comment that late-night help is only expected of husbands or boyfriends, not mere girlfriends? Lovely thought, that: “Unless someone’s having sex with you, don’t expect them to give the slightest damn about your well-being.”

By: physics geek

physics geek — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:54:06 +0000

Was there an April 1 date on that article? Because I’m having trouble believing any human could write it.

By: I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends « Around The Sphere

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends « Around The Sphere — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:50:20 +0000

[...] Julian Sanchez: Via Spencer and Lindsay Beyerstein, apparently Double-X has hired some kind of sociopath as a “friendship advice” columnist. And by “sociopath,” I mean the sort of person who thinks that it’s too much to ask that putative friends (a) not ditch another friend who mysteriously vanishes in a state of obvious distress on a night out, and (b) actually go to pick her up at the hospital when she calls to let them know she’s been roofied—which, unless there’s some fad for using incapacitating drugs as random pranks that escaped my radar, tends to be a prelude to sexual assault. Because “there are limits to friendship”. Friendship? Jesus, that’s the minimum I’d do for someone I barely knew in a situation like that. Hell, it’s the minimum I’d do for someone who’d taken some drugs on purpose in an attack of poor judgment. It’s what any remotely decent, adequately socialized person would do. How on earth could you hire someone to whom this isn’t just gobsmackingly obvious to write an advice column about friendship? [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:35:54 +0000

Man, I once went to an ex-girlfriend’s apartment in the middle of night because she was feeling suicidal. I never thought she actually would kill herself, but the inconvenience I suffered was well worth it to make sure someone else didn’t come to greater harm.