A friend of mine once met a man in his late twenties who honestly believed that menstrual blood was blue, because of the commericals. I wish I could have seen her face when he told her this.

The last sentence needs a gender qualifier because, if you look at what's actually happening, it is gendered. There have been many documented cases of men doing this to women, and none of women doing it to men. If women were doing it to men then that would of course be very wrong, but they're not, at least not in any…

I doubt it, just because men seem to be less focused on fashion as a barometer of how they should look than women are. Where a change might make a difference would be in movies.

This seems like upskirt photography, ie. something that the men who do it enjoy because they know that they're violating the privacy of the women they're doing it to, and they get a kick out of that. It's not about boobs, or even lactation - if they just wanted videos of women's boobs expressing milk they could find…

Sounds like a man who feels threatened by the talent and general awesomeness of a woman who he worked with to me. I get videos designed for shock, and I even like some of them, but why not hire a model? Why try to force your collaborator into a demeaning position, and then sneakily work to make it look like you did…

This makes me wonder where the cutoff point for "too short" is for women. I'm just over 5ft 2 and have never had any of the stuff you're describing aimed at me. Maybe it's because I'm pretty busty, but I hear other short women talking about the "you're like a child!" thing all the time and it's only ever happened to…

I don't empathise with the social awkwardness at all, but I do think she's sexy, in part because she is a bit androgynous and not visibly male-gaze-focused, which is why I was wondering if the same thing would hold true for straight women. A lot of straight women seem to dig Michelle Rodriguez for the same reasons…

Do you think it's a sexual thing? I'm bi so I'll freely admit that I have no idea how straight women approach that sort of fandom, but for me I can only imagine being that obsessive about a celebrity if there was some sort of sexual element to it (which I suspect is why women normally get like that about male…

I actually lift weights so that I don't have to do much cardio (more muscle = faster metabolism), but if I am going to do cardio I'd rather do it outdoors. If you're a germphobe gyms aren't very appealing - I'm always thinking "hundreds of people have sweated all over this, ew". Plus I'm busty enough that I have to…

Yeah, that's where I feel compelled to comment on this too, because it's sexist as hell. Women are not required to be smiley and perky all the time.

Could it be that men who watch a truly unusual amount of porn are more likely to then take the things they watch back into their bedrooms, and expect their partners to duplicate those things? I've only hooked up with a couple of guys who I'd say watch an unusual amount of porn (I'm assuming that almost everyone…

Part of the issue may be that I like to lift weights, and that just feels really hard and pointless if you're already feeling shitty. Even when I was in high school and running a lot, though, it only upped my mood if I wasn't already depressed.

So, basically, "we know you're going to do it anyway and you probably can't help it, but just so you know, it's totally immoral"?

We could organize an internet protest! We can call it the International Wank-Off.

Can someone who was raised Catholic explain to me why masturbation is such a no-no, from a doctrinal pov? I understand why extra-marital sex is (not agreeing with that view, but I understand why lots of religions advocate it), but why is masturbation a problem from a religious viewpoint? Is the idea that it's a…

Question for people who work out - have you found that it only ups your mood if you're already in a pretty decent mood to begin with? I can get a serious endorphin rush and feel great for the rest of the day sometimes, but only if my mood was good to begin with. Forcing myself to exercise when I'm feeling miserable…

Well, yeah, having both the straight community and the gay community be suspicious and hostile towards you, while drunk frat boys try to persuade you to make out with random straight girls for their entertainment, is a bit stressful.

Pro tip - people are more likely to be respectful to you, especially here, if you express yourself in a way that doesn't sound like you're insulting them.

It's a classic just-so explanation, and those are always nonsense. I mean, I'm sure that social pressures do influence the fact that women are more likely to openly identify as bi than men, but that's how people choose to present themselves to the world, not how they feel internally.

You did, you know, even if you didn't intend to. It would indeed be a good idea to try not to do that, rather than complaining when it's pointed out that you did.