That makes a lot of sense; thanks for taking the time to enlighten me!

As a woman who travels alone a lot and relates so hard to the OP, I’m having a hard time answering your question because I don’t know how you come across in person, or how good you are at taking a hint. You’ll notice that, in the OP, the author was enjoying her conversation with the man at first. It’s only once he…

You don’t have to scroll very far down through the comments to find people (I’m gonna guess men) dismissing the author’s experience of being straddled as just the thing that happens in cramped airplanes, along with all other kinds of idiocy. I hate to say it, but your initial instincts about how your fellow passengers…

I get that, but isn’t that all part of the stuff that’s more than nomenclature? Like, if Allure had run this exact feature but omitted the word “afro” and all other references to people of color—would that have been OK? I’m thinking not, and I was trying to parse why not (in case I wasn’t clear before, my thinking was…

Then I guess maybe I’m still a little confused, as I got the impression it’s about more than just the nomenclature. I don’t follow the Kardashians, for instance, but I’m not aware of them using problematic nomenclature with respect to their possible/probable/verified enhancements. Halp?

Ugh, the world as I know it just got even shittier.

That’s a good question, and I think it helps clarify something for me about why this is a problem. As a white kid, I often curled my hair using foam rollers or rags, but the result was always more Shirley Temple than Rachel Dolezal. Most white kids would have to do something more to their hair than just put it up in…

I loved the way they looked on me; I had long hair so maybe that’s why it didn’t stick up everywhere? Anyway, they kept the strands out of my face while giving my hair a bit of volume and emphasizing the highlights, and were barely visible unless you bought the wrong shade and put your hair in a ponytail in addition…

I’ve seen them too, along with those zigzag headbands that actually looked kind of nice but left your hair a wretched, kinky mess. I’m having traumatic middle-school dance flashbacks all over the place.

I never knew chemical sunscreens were contraindicated for pregnant women, but webmd does support the idea that zinc-based ones might be better. Learn something new every day.

I thought there had been some studies a few years ago saying anything above SPF 30 isn’t actually more effective? I could be wrong.

This makes all the sense and needs all the stars.

Yeah, people vary a lot in their susceptibility to sunburn. I’m half Nordic, half Mediterranean, so while I can get pretty pale, I also tan easily. I can often get away with no sunscreen at all for everyday exposure, and can sometimes apply sunscreen just once if I’m out for several hours without getting burned. (I…

That took me about five seconds to get, which is four and a half seconds too long, but oh well. Thumbs up.

Advice from me to you: Under no circumstances should you spend $1,700 to see a kind of naked body. Naked bodies are literally everywhere. Every person has one.

Wait, so they thought an unqualified “mocha” was...frozen?

It’s somewhere in that gray area between grammatical error in widespread usage and industry jargon. Everyone in the biz says “sat” rather than “seated.” You might as well argue with calling half-and-half “cream” for all the good it will do.

In case your faith in humanity was still hanging on by a thread, the restaurants I’ve worked in have gotten in trouble with corporate for putting up such hand-written signs with valuable information customers might like to know before they sit down. Because everything is terrible.

Later stages of the disorder manifest with cravings for large quantities of caramel syrup. Only one case of recovery has been documented, in a patient who later procured an apology pizza.

It has been conclusively proven that there is no such thing as non-celiac gluten “intolerance.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosspome…