Ha, I just got called a "pill" because I didn't laugh when my friend said how horrible my tattoo will look in a few years. So often showing any spirit at all gets a "why are you in such a bad mood??"

Is "managing" the metric you're hoping for? Do you simply mean "not starving to death?" For some children, the biggest/only meal they get every day is the free lunch. If it weren't provided, they might not starve to death, but they would get even less food than they do. Parents wouldn't look up from their iphones and…

Haha, I'm in a fellowship with Jenna Jadin (the cicada cookbook author) and she has cicada dinner parties and rounds up the freshest cicadas from all over DC (apparently the young ones are tastiest?). She definitely practices what she preaches!

Obviously, the seafoam green is just bad lighting on a normal diamond. I would have liked it much more if it was actually a green gemstone, instead. I love colorful stones for engagement rings.

Margaret Atwood knows all, sees all.

Haha, I have found a nice Jewish boy and my Christian mother definitely cares. She is hoping my probing into the possibility of conversion to Judaism (from my current "nothing") will "lead me back to the Lord." The Christian Lord, who knocked up the human lady, not the Jewish lord who has kept it in his spirit pants.…

I have some dexterity issues and am forced to clasp my bra in front and twist it around; I was always jealous of not being able to do the behind-the-back clasp. Now I find I've been doing it RIGHT!!? Mwahahahaha...take that, you non-exisatant person who cared about how I put on my undergarments!

I feel like Scandinavia wins at all good things. Why isn't the cold distracting them from excelling at stuff!?

Haha, my boyfriend accidentally threw me out of bed when I queefed on him once. It happened once and I was embarrassed and then it happened again and he tried to move me off him and onto my side of the bed, but we were so close to the edge of the bed and he didn't realize his own strength and I got tossed over. I…

I'm sure for some women with traumatic births, it could, but all biological mothers need 8 more weeks than other mothers? Should the physical demand of their job be taken into consideration? Any other factors? I know every woman in my family was running errands in a week. I had a huge abdominal surgery with muscle…

I think it just puts you in the right frame of mind to discuss the problem. Even if I count to 10 etc, I might look at my bf and want to break his nose. I find that if I just go to him and kiss him, all those love hormones come back to the top and I can discuss the issue from the frame of mind of "I love this man like…

I hate the distinction between "moms" and women who have children through surrogacy or adoption. Are they really saying it takes 8 additional weeks just to physically recover from childbirth? Maybe for a few women, but I think the time is as much about bonding and getting into a rhythm than it is for just physical…

If we were at home or playing in our yard, I never wore a shirt at all. It was just annoying. My dad would yell about it being inappropriate and my mom would point at the little boys who didn't have to wear shirts. Her motto was, "when she has something to cover, we'll cover it." Covering baby girl nipples with a…

Amen. I'm offended they're on the same aisle at the supermarket. What are they thinking!?

I hate to be this person, because mashed potatoes ARE delicious, but have you tried mashed cauliflower? It's a remarkable taste-alike, and mixes with sour cream, butter etc the same. In case you want to have the taste and get a veggie serving all at once!

Gruvvy, I definitely oversimplified for the post. It's not as if I thought I was a troll before my boyfriend said differently. But I always thought I had a huuuuge nose, and the truth is I do, but that's not necessarily a flaw. Would it have been awesome for me to look at my schnoz as a teen and say, "This is an…

I hate to tie my confidence to another person, but my boyfriend has given me a world of confidence in my beauty for this exact reason. I always felt my mother and other people who said I was beautiful did so because they HAD to. My boyfriend, even after a year of dating will just stare at me randomly and say, "My God,…

Am I the only one who does not like tongue action? I've kissed some people who I considered great kissers, but I've never liked the tongue. My current BF loves it, but is more than satisfied to let me use my tongue to lick/tease him without his tongue in my mouth at all, which is more enjoyable for me. I could be…

It's so cute how stupid people make a loose collective into some monolithic unit that acts as one in every instance. You're right. I can't love America since it had slavery! Sometimes one of my french fries is soggy, ergo I HATE FRENCH FRIES. One Jezebel commenter is a real ass about being condescending to those who…

I'm in a wheelchair, though I can walk short distances. When I created my OKC profile, I stated that outright, upfront. If I hadn't, and my dates had been disappointed, or confused, or whatever, that would have been on ME. While I understand the author's point, and cruel fat jokes aren't funny, I see no problem with…