While I'm really glad you got the screening you needed, it's worth pointing out that only one side of this issue can provide stories like yours. Women who develop cancer because of the radiation they get from screening tests never know about it. We know that X amount of radiation exposure in Y population will cause Z…

I think the best solution would be to require women who want to use the gym during women-only hours to pay a small added fee. The way the people who only use the gym during coed hours all pay the same price, regardless of gender, but the single-sex option is still available to women who want it.

Good to know! I was just about to try this from my shoddily built apartment...

Glad you have something that works for you, but I wouldn't say that no one should be chopping their own onions. Some us have more free time than spare cash, so paying extra for convenience isn't worthwhile.

My parents did a sort of virtual bank on a whiteboard in the kitchen (my mother had a freakishly good memory for numbers, so none of us dared tamper with it). There was a total for each kid, and the numbers where updated when we got our allowances, earned money from certain chores, 'deposited' or 'withdrew' cash with…

You can get a sticker to put on the license instead of getting a whole new one. A lot of the young people I know just have their parents' address on their license, rather than updating it each time they move apartments.

What do people think about someone who is otherwise healthy taking meds because they provide some non-necessary benefit? For instance, people who don't have ADD but use Adderall as a study aid, or who take a sleeping pill to make a long plane ride more comfortable.

DO IT. Otherwise you'll end up like me, with a big red splotch on your upper chest that stays visible year-round. I just gave up on wearing anything at all low-cut, because there's a really clear divide between the bright pink damaged skin and my normal pale skin. And it's mostly from walking to and from the office in…

The optimist in me would hope that all those $1000 fines would allow them to hire some extra cops, to make sure the serious crimes are being covered. But somehow I doubt that will actually happen...

I'm a little confused, because I know I've had accurate information removed from my credit score after paying the debt. I underpaid the last electric bill at my old apartment by about $15, and didn't realize it until I checked my credit report a year later. I called the electric company, paid up and apologized, and…

He has the right to view her however he wants, but some of those potential views are a lot healthier and more mature than others. A person who sees their ex as worthless solely because they're hurt that the relationship ended has some serious issues.

In my experience, it's easier to adapt to living with a partner if you've spent a while living with roommates. If you've spent your whole adult life sharing bathrooms and kitchens with strangers off Craigslist out of economic necessity, sharing an apartment with someone you actually like requires significantly less…

The article is kind of confusing. I think it's more about how the actors are viewed within the industry than the popularity of the genre- white porn actresses believe that they'll find it harder to get work or will be paid less if they've done interracial porn. White men in porn don't experience the same stigma, and…

An American friend of mine tried to describe her fundamentalist upbringing to a group of Brits, including the fact that the women weren't allowed to wear pants. She didn't realize her mistake until someone asked her if the group actually checked if women were complying with the pants-ban.

Water pipes tend to freeze, and when they freeze they're very expensive to repair. So it's pretty common for people in really cold climates to have a few communal water sources rather than try to build and maintain a full water and sewer grid.

Yeah, it's super confusing. They've basically taken the names from an older system of sizing and repurposed them for the modern straight-vs-plus size system.

Same here. I usually wear a 4 or 6, except in Target where I usually need a 0. But having gone shopping there with larger friends, I can confirm that the sizing seems to be messed up in the opposite direction for larger sizes. In moments of frustration I wonder if they are sewing the wrong size labels on all the…

I don't know about Target specifically, but it's fairly common for stores to divide their ladies' clothes into "Juniors", "Misses" and "Women's" sections.

I'm not sure I follow, though statistics were never my strong suit. It seems to me like there either have to be a decent number of prolife women aborting Down's syndrome pregnancies, or some factor causing prochoice women to have significantly more Down's syndrome pregnancies than prolife women.

Could be sensory issues, or could just be that people with autism are less likely to notice or care how other people dress. When they go to put on a button-up shirt, they just do up all the buttons, because why would the buttons be there if you aren't supposed to use them?