I hear you, although as a married woman who has not changed her last name, I get weird looks from strangers all the time (especially as I am a hyphenated-last-name gal from birth). Have a hug, and realize that random judgmental twerps will ALWAYS find something wrong with your decisions. The hell with them. :)

Unfortunately, one of my Things is I do NOT like being in the shower with anyone else. I know it's weird, but it's a really, really powerful aversion. Instead of it being fun and sexy, as it seems to be for a lot of people, it's just irritating at best and upsetting at worst. We're sexually fine otherwise, though, so…

Seriously! Unfortunately, my husband isn't into it...and that makes me sad as it frankly just feels better than normal for me. I mean, normal feels great, too, but I have a GREAT time with period sex.

Frankly, I think she kinda seems like a jerk. I mean, it seems like everyone thinks she's a great friend for talking shit about Angelina Jolie in "defense" of Jennifer Aniston or something, but to me it just comes across like she's kind of a nasty person who will take any excuse to say nasty things about someone (not…

You are awesome. Your criticisms of the post are thoughtful and in no way mean-spirited, and you have made an admirable effort to create good dialogue.

That was exactly what I thought.

Well, I haven't seen Girls, but if I were to talk about it the way I talked about Seinfeld, I'm pretty sure it would be along the lines of "good god, I really do not understand why people think that's funny. Why do I have to hear about it all the time?" Ditto for Friends, actually. I got to listen to people that I…

Oh gods, me too! The only thing I ever found funny on that show was Mr. Peterman, and he wasn't on all that often.

I actually really like Anne Hathaway, and I don't really get the recent snark.

This is a real thing?! I have NEVER been able to adjust to a "day" schedule. Even when I was a very small child, my sleep cycle has always been 2-4am to 10am-noon. I have been able to force myself to get up anyway, but my sleep pattern will revert within 2 days no matter how many months I was short on sleep previously.

My best friend during my early 20's was super-busty, and one day she showed up at my house with a mild (and oddly shaped) black eye. I hated her boyfriend at the time, and he had shown signs of physical abuse toward her (it never quite crossed that line, but I had non-paranoid reasons for worrying for her safety with…

I've never seen the show, but things like that bug the hell out of me in general. I often get told things like "oh, you really don't need makeup! you're fine without it!"...I realize they think they're complimenting me, but more or less what I hear is "you should tailor your appearance to make me happy!". I actually…

Is Bieber waging some sort of campaign to make himself unlikable? I actually had no problem with him until recently, but between his aggressively hideous clothes (seriously...dude needs a Pants Intervention) and his aggressively whiny public statements, I'm really starting to want him to retire.

OH, and if you would like to help support a scholarship fund while showing people, in a gentle and humorous way, just how stupid racially-based team names are, check this out:

Well, way too many people are ignorant as hell, but hopefully they'll learn quickly. I just wish people hadn't been such raging asshats at you. Hopefully DC treats you well. :)

Ugh...Boulder can, unfortunately, be a bit isolated and precious (I lived there for 10 years), and frankly most of the town is from somewhere else anymore. While I was at Metro, I got to see both plain old fellow students who were Native, and some really great speakers (I got to meet the President of The Navajo…

Anytime :) Yeah, I'm honestly glad in some ways that I didn't go to school until I was older. Also, Denver (where I went to school also...yay Metro State!), despite having a really checkered past with race, does pretty well confronting its own history. The new Colorado history museum does an impressive job of making…

Holy shit...it's utterly horrible you had to hear crap like that. I'm honestly shocked that college-age kids would be so blatantly awful (and I'm actually not young or naive). I'm simultaneously grateful that my college experience was nothing like that (although that may be partly due to it being a "non-traditional"…

They do, in fact, have body paint for this precise reason. Who in the hell was doing makeup for this shoot?!?!

Oh, gods...and "milleniums". That one makes me want to yell at my computer.