BrassyBibliophile
BrassyBibliophile
BrassyBibliophile

I think Tracy is touching on something that I have thought about the Miley Cyrus thing since day one. It's about how people get angry and disgusted when they see something that they perceive as sexual but is not attractive to them or their belief of what should be attractive. For example, fat women dressing sexy, body

I live in Colorado. I also do online-dating. If I read one more profile that says "I want a girl who can look great in hiking gear and climb a 14er with me in the morning but still get dolled up in heels and a dress and look fabulous to go out at night" I'm going to stab someone. WTF? A guy climbs a damn 14er and can

Oh no, I'm the opposite. When I say bleak I mean "non-existent"

That's a wonderful way of thinking about it. I just wish every dating sites had automated, fake fetish-bait (ex. some petite smiling Asian lady with a profile that says she's looking for a "successful white man") that auto-generated soothing responses to these idiots. The idiots would be drawn to them and us real

First Child Fears:

For the longest time my bedtime was 8:45.

Sorry I pushed you so hard in everything when you were younger and you wound up having a mental breakdown in college. In hindsight, you were weaker than I thought. Now go empty the trashcan in the lobby.

Love
- Dad

As the oldest child, this explains:

- Why I'm the smart one
- Why I have a crippling fear of letting my parents down so much I refuse to leave the family company even though I've been offered more money elsewhere
- Why I don't call the dreams in which my parents suffer horrible deaths "nightmares"

How is he still a thing? Fade into obscurity, please.

It doesn't matter. Calling yourself slutty isn't consenting to anything. Him pointing that out is the same thing as saying "well your skirt was short and your cleavage was out, so you were asking for it."

Good for you for posting that.

The two men who didn't think it was a big deal are fucktards.

I can't see Moretz enthusiastic about anything without assuming it's some kind of plot against Jack Donaghy.

Ugh, those days in high school where I was hyper-aware of my own popularity, or lack thereof were just awful, and social media could only have made that worse. But for some reason, despite me being very secure in myself in the real world, on Jezebel I feel like I am in high school again.

Bootstrappers are the worst.

Well, this is certainly reassuring. You can trust the TSA with those full-body scans - there are absolutely no privacy issues because THESE ARE TRAINED PROFESSIONALS.

You can trust the TSA with complete access to the contents of your suitcase, including valuables and personal items - THESE ARE TRAINED PROFESSIONALS.

You

Bar, stop looking, honey! That's when you'll meet someone. Or at least that is what every person I wanted to punch out said back when I was single.