I feel like you can tell when people have naturally green, blue etc eyes vs dark brown eyes with contacts. When people ask you that question they're really saying you don't look like what I think a black person should look like and/or I find you attractive so you can't be black you have to have something else I can…

Zappos has 635 pairs of shoes in the 1 to 1 3/4" range. I'm not trying to be a jerk but I don't know why more women don't buy shoes online. You buy several pairs, get to try them on comfortably at home at various times of the day, and you return the ones that don't fit. I don't actually buy many clothing items…

I've heard it's because the bones in your feet spread. This may be totally not true, but it's not just the difference in comfort between heels and sneakers, but your feet literally shift "shape" which makes heels so uncomfortable.

Was also true in 2003 during the blackout - the subways weren't running, the buses were overly full, and it took forever to drive anywhere anyway because of the lack of street lights. My mom had to walk 10 of the 13 miles to our house from midtown to queens. It took her six hours.

Unless you have kids with the bio dad, then it becomes tricky - you discipline your kids but not theirs?

In cities that happens anyway because what you often own is an apartment not a house.

I live not in Manhattan with a landlord that is amazingly attentive and pay less than market rate for my apartment despite moving in only three years ago. The New York Times Rent/Buy Calculator says I should never move unless I can move into an apartment that costs less than 40k.

you do realize that extinction doesn't necessarily equate death.

Thirteen years of Catholic school including one year of AP Biology in which I was taught evolution says you're wrong.

Before the wars Lebanon had a very, very large Christian population and it's still pretty Christian (like 1/3) so they wouldn't wear the hijab. A lot of of the christian population has fled, but I've actually never met a Lebanese person, or person of Lebanese descent who was Muslim. Similarly all of the Iranians…

This isn't about you it's about what you said and what you said was fairly tone deaf. I didn't bring up "hoity types" giving me crap about anything, so you're reading into something I didn't say. I said outside of New York your joke falls flat and inside of New York it wasn't funny. Your sports analogy falls flat…

We also completely ignore countries like Turkey that are Islamic and secular, which isn't exactly the easiest thing to be given its geographic position. Yeah it's not perfect, and Turkey has problems with religious fundamentalists the same way we have problems with religious fundamentalists, but they have a military…

And yet you succeeded in pissing me off and I don't live in Manhattan. Never have. I was however born in Flushing. So good job.

Most of the world's muslim population lives in Asia, not the Middle East. Only 20% of Muslims's live in the Arab world but it's funny that that's the only picture of Islam we paint.

I'm a girl and the younger sister, so nope. She was a huge fan of the physical so like an undersized younger sibling I learned the gentle art of mental manipulation.

Are you my sister? She hates clowns and the way I used to torture her when I was wee was with that movie. I saw Killer Klowns from Outerspace, and It, and read It as well and clowns just don't bother me.

Everything you've said except my momma had the good sense to birth me in a Queens hospital.

It's awful writing but you can get really good and really fast at it. I got mine off of craigslist.

Have you tried taking on other work? I once had a terrible job as a temp receptionist at a hedge fund that got no calls. Apart from ordering office lunch I had nothing to do all day. I picked up some content mill writing on the side and managed to triple my hourly from 15 to 45 and hour by doing two jobs at once.

Someone told me I looked like Whoopi Goldberg when I was young and it lead to years of me thinking i was unattractive - this was during her Sister Act fame. For the record, I don't look like Whoopi, not even a little bit.