Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.