As a woman with a well-documented history of social awkwardness, I welcome your pity. Thank you!

My fellow officers from World of Warcraft and I have a term to describe this exact scenario: suicide pact. It's a bit droll, but it can be humorous when, after dealing with an exceptionally difficult situation or person, this is the only response that we can muster.

the chin thing is pretty much only in movies folks, in real life, a fist coming towards my face = a slap

This is all sorts of wrong. It's very apparent that it's written by a man because quite a few of the suggestions wouldn't encourage me to want to kiss someone. In particular, the push to separate the woman from others and then continue efforts despite her objections would lead me to draw very different conclusions…

(Did anyone else totally want to vom everywhere at their "18th century simile" line?)

“Beautiful women are like flowers,” W interjects. “They turn to the sun. But if they don't receive a certain amount of attention, they wither.” The simile has an 18th-century feel, like the conversation: It's about manners, after all, which are always most complicated in times of equality.

I thought that she was included in order to emphasize the non-traditional appearance of the second model.

Oh my God. I didn't even notice that she was missing an arm! I had to scroll back up to confirm that what you said was correct.

Wait, Irish have larger heads? I adore hats, but have always had difficulties finding ones that fit my head. I never knew that I could attribute it to my Irish heritage!

I use Spivak pronouns. They're not very popular outside of specific groups, but I've had some success in increasing their use within some communities.

There is something about Klum that makes me cringe any time she speaks. I don't think that it's her accent; my mother is German-American, it was her first language, and I grew up speaking it in the home. It may be her enthusiasm or cheeriness, which always seems so false to me.

I occasionally watch the show and I find her relatively endearing. In particular, I find that her concerns about her appearance and how she is perceived by others resonate with me. Plus her earnest love for her work is very apparent!

I wonder how much of it is other people seeing the culture and applying their own bias as opposed to an actual change of members who ascribe to it. A lot of the comments in the articles are from men who perceive it as:

It's a myth perpetuated by people who genuinely want to believe it because it helps support their causes and emphasizes the immortality of their opponents. It's so prevalent that people assume that it must be true.

Wait, we're supposed to worried about our chins, too? Great.

That may have been implemented following the complaints of the actress mentioned in the article. This actually first cropped up over a year ago, perhaps around October 2011. At the time, Hoang painstakingly attempted to keep her name from being published and there was a lot of supposition concerning who this unknown…

I'm with Imaginaryfriend on this one: 'cause suffices for me. I'm fond of neither "cos" nor "cuz" because I read them as apocopes for "cousin."

Catcalling doesn't happen much out here (or reaching my 30d has greatly reduced the likelihood of being on the receiving end of one; what a damned shame...), but I experienced it quite a bit when I was living in a number of cities on the East Coast.