I remember when male doctors used to say there weren't any qualified female doctors. It is possible to be on the inside and still see it all wrong.

I think when we talk about parents monitoring their children's social media, we should encourage parents to focus on what their kids are using it FOR, as well as for keeping an eye out for predators and bullying of their child. I was bullied pretty relentlessly in middle school (before the advent of social media…

My boyfriend also lost his mother to breast cancer when he was a teen, but in the mid-nineties. There were support groups back then, but one thing he always noticed was that women would drop out of the groups when they were dying. They would be encouraged by these well-meaning groups of women, using the lessons and…

Truth. The mean girls in my jr.high class would be "Good Girls". They got decent grades, didn't mouth back to teachers, didn't show up late, participated in school events and didn't (from what I saw) sass back to their parents etc. But teasing you at any opportunity? Leaving you in tears at the lunch table? Giggling…

Saying rude or hurtful things isn't bullying. Bullying is ongoing cruelty. It causes real psychological damage. I'm willing to bet you weren't actually bullied very hard if you characterize bullying behavior as "simply saying rude or hurtful things."

Oh, believe me, I did. I went on a long rant because it really upset me. Stupid, juvenile terms like that do nothing for the cause. They also assume that breast cancer only affects women. I pointed it out for him that men are also at risk for breast cancer but because of marketing towards "ta-tas" and boobs, male…

I love my boobs. They're nice. Really nice.

My mother died of breast cancer in 1988, after battling it for about 8 years. I was a teenager when she passed. My resentment towards pinkwashing is two-fold. My mother had breast cancer before 'it was cool' , so to speak because I can't think of another way to put it. Back then it was marginalizing and painful to…

Some people have told me they actually like it. I can't fathom liking crowds of rude people and the inevitable altercations over parking spots.

Wasn't this coat in Coming to America?

Yeah, I kind of think "knowing yourself" is a responsibility each individual should take on before diving into the dating pool. I get that we're all growing people, but I've seen too many people hurt because their partner (sometimes me) didn't know what they wanted.

"You're like the second person I've ever really been with."

I've got a third party one from high school: A boy I knew had a crazy possessive girlfriend who wanted to marry him the minute they graduated high school and have lots of babies. She would have started before graduating high school because she just knew they'd be together forever and ever and ever! He wisely didn't…

My mother's cousin married two closeted gay men. TWO!!! This was back in the days when being homosexual was illegal and being outed would literally ruin your life. The first one snuck out of town in the dead of night for another state to avoid jail and his ex-wife and kids never heard from him again. I'm not sure what…

My old boss told his wife pre-wedding that he knew he was going to lose his wedding ring - he owned a restaurant and spent most of the time working in the kitchen, so that's a legit worry. So instead of spending a lot of money on one ring, she went out and bought him a half dozen of the exact same, very inexpensive,…

Not my story, but my friend's. She'd been out at a pub with other lady friends when a rakish, good looking guy with a hot accent comes up to chat with all of them. He's Australian, he says. They hit it off, and for a month do that manic kind of dating where you see each other nearly every day and are totally head over…

A guy i had dated for 6 months told me he was going to Aruba with 6 of his guys friends. He asked me to housesit for him, water his plants and drop him off and pick him up from the airport. Before he left some of his other friends invited me to go skiing with them. After I dropped him off at the airport I went to…

Is he still pretending to work somewhere?

Or is he now a GOP member of the House of Representatives?

"Sarah had always been a liar." I love that sentence. I love when people are just known as "liar" like it's conventional wisdom that she's the town liar.

Okay. This is hard for me, but here goes . . . .

Lie #1: Years and years ago I dated a really dynamic woman — super-smart, very ambitious, incredibly brave. She was a pilot. She told me that she'd always dreamed of flying through a particular — and particularly dangerous — part of the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. …