Thanks for being cool! We need more people like you! My non-vegan friends have all, on separate occasions, told me that I'm really "cool" about it, so I hope to change people's minds about the vegan crowd one friend at a time. :) At the end of the day, we all wanna do our thang and not be judged for it. Treat others…

Here are my sex-ed experiences from a midwestern kid who grew up in the 90s:

I think online does count... because us online vegans that are cool about it/not preachy/let you do your thang are the quiet people you meet IRL that never mention being vegan because of the stereotype. I was a "closet vegan" for close to a year and was legitimately upset with a coworker for "outing" me at a work…

This!! I am quietly weird and I don't make a fuss about it. I bring my own food to stuff so no one has to cater to me. I don't talk about it while people eat meat (or, ever, unless they ask me and genuinely are interested, but I limit the topics I'll comment on because I don't want to think about slaughterhouses any…

26 in the houuuuuse. Although I feel mega-old because I spend most Friday and Saturday nights enjoying a beer and a bedtime of 9:30 pm.

Lol - the only gaming I excel at is the retro stuff because that was what I played during my formative years! I can kick some serious ass at Donkey Kong Country and Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo, and Mario Kart on N64. Anything after Wii is a pain in my ass. Multiple thumbsticks? Having to aim and run and jump and…

Now if only I could wrap my head around the game... then he'd REALLY be a happy man. (Full disclosure: he even made me a cat-themed deck as a "starter deck" to ease me into learning the game... and I DID understand, to a point. But then he got into details that went over my head and I felt stupid for not being able to…

I found them on Amazon. :) Thanks for the idea! I know this will get a laugh out of him on Xmas (if I can wait that long).

WHAT? This sounds like a perfect gift for my fiance. Where did you see them? I must know, so I can gift him the perfect Xmas gift (A huge box of cards combined with anything cat-related will make that nerd a happy man).

I am guilty of bumming at weddings and parties with my smoker-friends because I hate events like that and I find myself following them outside for a reprieve from socializing with randos. And then, because they are nice people and know I used to smoke, they offer me a cig. And I take it. And then I hate myself when I…

I guess my issue is that the posts feel a lot less "meaty" these days. I like Tracey Moore's writing because she takes a current event or article and writes something thick, juicy and analytical about it...something substantial. And that's why I miss Lindy West so sorely, because she did the same. Lately the posts, in…

More of this, please. Jezebel is overrun with fluff these days (and sometimes we need fluff—the world sucks, I get it) but this was a great read and we need more contributions like this.

It is possible, as I'm living proof—and it's not that I'm screening people by race to be my friend, there just isn't a lot of diversity near me. I had a half mexican/half white friend for many years, but she completely ignored her Mexican heritage and referred to herself as white. My company of approximately 100…

Much like I believe that some people are not fit to be parents, some people are just not fit to be friends. I can't tell you the amount of "friends" I have turned to during a particularly rocky patch in my (current) relationship where I could have really used the extra support, and been turned away with snide remarks…

Ah - I never drew a correlation between my predisposition for stretchmarks and the fact that my cuts and scrapes take for-fucking-EVER to heal. Good call. That does seem like those two things could be logically related.

Wasn't she quoted some time back as saying she wants to die? So maybe this is just part of her continuing romanticism of death?

What do you meant "dealt with them"? If there was a magic way to erase them, you better believe I'd be all over that. I'm super unhappy with mine and I have done tons of research about them, and once they're healed (and silvery instead of red), there's just nothing that can be done, not even expensive laser treatments…

I mean I realize the pictures aren't very up close and personal, so I suppose I just don't see them... but WHY do tiny celebrities never seem to get awful stretchmarks from pregnancy? I'm rocking tons of stomach and side marks, and I've never even given birth...just bad genes and a few yo-yo diets. I just don't see…

I recall a very specific shopping trip in high school, with my mother, at Von Maur. I was trying on Homecoming dresses, and I thought "dayum, this mirror is making me look GOOOOD!" It seriously boosted my self-esteem 100%. Are you telling me that this was a lie? Because that is cruel and unusual.

Ugh, Clara is the wooooorst. I think part of me hates her because she reminds me of the vapid popular girls in high school, but that's my own problem. The writing has gotten so ishy, especially the female characters.