Damn, girl, you look good!

Having another living creature that's not you moving around inside your body is pretty fucking Aliens sometimes.

Although I'm an American, I've lived in Singapore for 13 years, and my 2 daughters (12 and 9) were born here. In Singapore if you are a citizen you are required to put part of your paycheck into an account to pay for your medical costs, and your employer has to match it. (There is additionally something like SS, from…

I'm so sorry you had a baby stillborn. As a mother I can only imagine how nightmarish that would be. Thinking about how your milk would come in and there would be no baby to nurse is making me cry now. Please accept hugs from a stranger on the internet.

And if you were a woman repeatedly complimenting a man on his appearance at the bus stop, he would assume you were inviting you to have sex with him. And if you were an adult of either gender repeatedly talking about the specific attractive parts of the body of a boy, people would think you were some weirdo pedophile.…

And yet when someone makes small talk with a man or a boy at the bus stop, how likely is it that they will tell the man that he is handsome? That the boy has beautiful hair, and he must take really good care of it? That the man just looks so lovely and fresh in his shorts and T-shirt today that it's like a breath of…

THAT HAPPENED AT MY HOUSE TOO, IT WAS MOS DEF CAT HAIR.

I agree, this is one of the "the Patriarchy Hurts Men Too"TM things. Teenaged boys and young men shouldn't be shamed and mocked about their sexual inexperience. And honestly, if you are a college-aged man, 48 sex partners is quite high and well above the norm. This is a tangential point, and totally unrelated to the…

Europe? That's where the history's from, innit?

Everywhere body waxing appears? No, but, my husband is like this too. Hairy (blondish) arms, and pits, and one chest hair, which we named at some point but I forgot. I pull him out occasionally if I notice him. Oh, yeah, Sherman.

I felt like I had to protect my little brother and sister, and my brother felt the same way, and our sister was so little and loved her dad so much, it was so horrible to see him be cruel to her. We created and maintained a united front against every-fucking-body and have stayed very close all our lives. I'm glad it…

True, not African generally, you're right. There are some countries in Africa, like Uganda, that have been proseltysed heavily in the last 20 years by American Evangelical churches. So Definitely Uganda's in there but I'm not sure what other nations. You're right that it's a certain group of countries with large…

I would be very interested indeed in seeing evidence of feminists protesting meetings in which men discuss their experiences with suicidal depression, advocacy for change in family court law, reform of the US educational system, or raising awareness about prostate cancer and timely colonoscopies. So interested. Wicked…

Yep, "omega male" is the term of art in the PUA/MRA communities, which have a huge Venn diagram overlap without sharing all that many philosophical views other than: women are cunning, amoral, idiots. (If these seem incompatible, remember that the women may possess a base animal cunning without having an IQ that rises…

The old "who's this 'we' you're talking about kemosabe" routine, eh? Suuure.

Another feminist Jezebel/Gawker/io9 & Deadspin [OK, fine, not so much Deadspin in toto as Drew, plus NFL coverage] reader here chiming in to say...uh...no? What the fuck are you taking about, dude?

It is a traditional name among many recent African immigrants to America. The woman or man upthread who said she basically tossed Precious' "stripper-name" resumé into the circular file was being a racist dickhole, but didn't even know it. He or she should write a country song!

I have a severe Puritan ancestress from Martha's Vineyard named "Pain." I'm seeing a lot of potential for a time-traveling romance here.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Ahh, that's so horrible, I'm so sorry. That you were brave enough to tell someone and not be believed is the worst. I was too afraid even to say anything. As another person mentions downthread, my stepdad eventually killed himself. It didn't make me feel happy, though I devoutly prayed for it for a good 13 years. He…