I used to tell pushy people that I was unable to have kids - they would definitely back off, in awkwardness/pity/mortification - but over time I realised that narrative still reinforced my identity as 'a woman who would have had kids, but tragically cannot'. Now, at 35, I say I've had my tubes tied (I haven't), and in…

Who are you to say who deserves to be educated and who doesn't? And why the hell would ANY intelligent person be okay with a system that allows the rich kids, instead of the smart kids, to become the doctors, lawyers and scientists of the future? Surely in a smart society you want the very best people for the job?…

Wtf, they make you PAY for your design software as a student? That's some next-level bullshit. :/

Nope, it's the other way round, and if you lived in Australia you'd know that's the only way it could be. To make an ad that dared suggest men might have the potential be better than the bogan stereotype would alienate too many of our proud misogynists.

I've never personally known anyone to use this term (maybe it's an American idiom?), and I find it repulsive.

'Confirmed bachelor' does mean gay, but I don't assume that that's the meaning the writer intended to convey. It's very often misused to mean 'perpetual single person'. Considering the many other specious elements of this post, I'm taking the 'innuendo' with a grain of salt.

I think your use of the word 'supporting' is key. Because these women HAVE POWER, and by choosing to work with Terry Richardson they are giving him a fucking pass. They are exactly the kind of women who can effect culture change, unlike vulnerable nobodies (the rest of us) who have no choice but to compromise our…

I'm super happy for Stacey Keibler and all, but shit like this:

'When people say that the US and England are the most racist countries in the world i just roll my eyes.'

But isn't some audience member pleb more likely to get that wrong than an entertainment writer?

So have we all figured out by now that TheAdlerian is NEVER worth replying to, even when there's a tiny kernel of logic in his comment? Because (for those of you who weren't alerted by the breathtaking sexism in his very first post) he is a mega troll who has been hanging around like a fucking bad smell for a long…

I know right? Isn't the point of waxing so you can forget about it for a month or so?

So, if you're interested in somebody whose job/personality/other integral part of their life is fundamentally incompatible with you, DON'T DATE THEM. Nobody's forcing you to.

Lol, what do you mean if I 'missed' the book? It was a set novel in my Communications degree in 1998, for the very reason that we the students were Gen X. Are you seriously saying that if you're not the exact same age as the characters in that book then you can't be Generation X? And that the Mad Men kids (Bobby was…

Gen X ended in the early eighties, so some of us are as young as 33. Even taking into account the uncertainty of the 'exact' change-over year, there's no question of it ending in the mid-seventies.

Or this one: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/…

Well, you could look at it this way - the cute rescue pets should get adopted more quickly, increasing the number of animals they can rescue from pounds and kill shelters, leading to growth of the rescue's profile in the community which in turn leads to more adoptions, donations, media coverage etc, and eventually…

To be fair, that's not Patton's quote. It's a paraphrase of another very terrible quote, shown next line down.

Just nb, your excerpt isn't a Patton quote, it's paraphrasing the following:

Pretty sure gym means gymnastics, considering the others mentioned in the same group (ballet and cheerleading). That's a pretty common nickname/shortening, at least it was when I was a (rec) gymnast in the nineties.