and people say America ISN'T the greatest country in the world. WE HAVE ACROCATS, WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?

I think your missing the point a man can be handsome OR funny OR interesting OR confident and still be considered attractive by the general population (though I'm not denying someone possessing more than 1 of these qualities would be considered more attractive). A woman can be beautiful and then she's attractive her…

I don't think jezebel is pushing that at all. There have been a couple articles about how pretty is about a specific set of behaviors, but I don't think a couple articles makes a trend let alone a party line. I am not saying that changing your physique is impossible- there is diet and exercise, and makeup and…

Somehow, I find this gif 10X more apt knowing that's a white dude.

That dude is Italian.

It really was, and it's still sort of a secret pleasure to crush fetishist's ideas of how amaaaaayzing Japan is. I feel like that kind of fetishism is pretty racist, and it's just a crappy way to treat a whole country full of people.

Your experience kind of mirrored my own exactly. At some point I went from zipping along in the middle of taking good with bad academically to becoming hypercritical. I delved a lot into feminist and race issues in Japan post WWII construction until present and my extreme frustration just made me stop...everything. I…

Same here. I was only there for a year, and I did not live in Tokyo (because the cost is insane). The huge number of people that gushed about it actually forced me to focus on the negatives of living in Japan instead. Yeah, it's really fucking racist. Yeah, it's sexist as hell. Yeah, they really do expect a 50-60…

I actually lived in Japan for a few years(Air Force family) and whenever I tell people about that they start drooling over me and talking about how Japan is this magical place they can't wait to move to. Oh yes, they're all learning Japanese and someday they'll live in Tokyo and it'll be so cool with the maid cafes…

Exactly. NOBODY will ever be as good as "Zoe." It may be that he fears nobody will ever be good enough for him, but tough shit. We all have flaws, we all fear rejection. Dude needs to get the fuck over it, because he comes off like a real jackass.

Fuck this dude. Fuck him because no woman will ever be "good enough" for him, and he's not nearly as special as he believes he is.

She's not imaginary, she's from Canada. We met at summer camp. I don't have any photos cause her family is really strict about that stuff.

"After not reading the study or putting much thought into it, I'm willing to bet they didn't even CONSIDER the things that I, a random person on the internet, thinks could apply! Therefore, science is bad or something!"

Yes. So so many comments that say, "that's not what I'm looking for in marriage!", completely disregarding the fact that EVERY STUDY EVER CONDUCTED ON THE TOPIC shows that that is what men get in marriage. Even the most egalitarian marriages are just woman doing 5 more hours of childcare/housework a week than the…

Quote the section of this essay where I say "men are jerks."

It's not that men are consciously thinking, "Oh, I want a sexy maid!"

So re-posting a study I found online is "shoving my premade conclusions down someone's throat?"

I want a housecat that is lion sized!

Wine.