I can believe it. My guy friends are way more likely to describe an intense attraction as love. Probably because a man who falls in love at first sight is considered romantic, while a woman who does the same is sometimes seen as a crazy-desperate spinster, who probably has her whole wedding planned out and has already…

I don't understand this. I hate eating meals with my cousins- one smacks his lips and chews with his mouth open and has disgusting table manners, but somehow the other cousin is worse despite having good manners. He takes small bites, he chews slowly with his mouth closed, and yet his eating is louder and more…

I have full text access and the summaries here and on the NYT accurately reflect the researchers' goals. They were looking at gender-based misgrading, not stereotype threat.

I think that feels differently because in the context of policies or research, the gender of the persons being discussed is the only thing you care about. I don't like it when someone refers to me individually as "a female". It feels like they aren't really seeing me as a person, that I'm just interchangeable with…

No pets ever would be a deal breaker for me. My boyfriend is allergic enough that we will only ever have hypoallergenic dogs, and until we adopted our dog we didn't know whether we would be able to let him in the bedroom. Cats and most dog breeds are off-limits. I'm more of a dog person, but knowing that I can never…

No red flags and overall pretty good, but to me you're coming across as a little apathetic, maybe negative in some places. There are points where you talk about your hobbies as just things that keep you entertained, and it sounds a little like "this stuff is better than being bored". Even if that's how you feel, you…

This is probably going to sound weird, but I scraped up my hand really badly in a bike crash right after being dumped, and I found a lot of solace in watching my body physically repair itself. It's hard to picture how something can go from "horror movie prop" and a normal hand, but I didn't have to understand,…

There are genuinely more food allergies nowadays. The same pattern has been observed in many different industrialized countries and we're not really sure why. Part of it may be that the advice for preventing allergies did a 180 a few years back- doctors used to tell pregnant women/new parents to avoid exposure to…

The law (in states where sexual orientation is a protected class) doesn't agree with you here. If you sell wedding cakes generally, you can't refuse to sell one to someone based on their membership in a protected class. This is a restriction that applies to everyone who runs a business that serves the public.

I expect it will be tossed out. Refusing to serve someone based on membership in a protected class is an entirely different thing from refusing to serve a certain type of product to anyone. She can refuse to sell cakes with certain decorations the same way she can refuse to sell red velvet cake if she doesn't like it.…

Yeah, I don't get it. If I accidentally cut myself and bled all over my apartment's carpet I would lose some of my deposit (if I couldn't get the stain out myself). Intention doesn't really matter- the apartment is damaged and someone has to pay to fix it. In the US we draw the line at "normal wear and tear", but that…

I think the issue is that if your doctor sends 100 women home with painkillers that they don't really need, the majority will do exactly what you did and be fine, some will take the meds and possibly suffer unnecessary side effects, but one or two might develop a drug problem or relapse if they already had an issue.…

Sit down and have a talk about finances. It doesn't have to be just about his inheritance. But make sure you're on the same page about how you'll split the day-to-day expenses and what your financial goals are. Under what circumstances would he draw on the inheritance-would he use it to subsidize daily living or pay…

Yeah, I don't think number of signups is actually meaningful, not when they don't consider the total number of students at the school. It may be meaningful for old rich dudes who live near one of those college campuses, but not for making any judgements about the population of students at a college.

Alas, it appears he is an alum (twice over, if you count Sloan!), but under the name of Lead Wey. He changed it because Brandon Wade sounded "more Hugh Hefneresque"....

That happened to a former coworker of mine. They went back and forth about whether to have a second kid, finally decided to do it... and got triplets. Only two of the triplets were identical, which apparently requires a lot of explanations, everywhere you go.

It's only the mother who claims that this all started because she wanted a second opinion- the hospital can't comment. But based on the mother's other statements, it seems pretty clear that by second opinion, she meant she wanted to use alternative medicine, not that she wanted to see a different oncologist. The mom…

I don't think fair use applies here. The public doesn't benefit from this company using someone's photo without permission. If the company had hired a model and a photographer instead of using whatever photo they found, the only difference would be the company making slightly less of a profit. Either there's no…

I went into it saying that I would either meet someone or get some funny stories to tell my friends, but it ended up being pretty boring. I got a lot of disgusting messages, but the people I agreed to go out with were mostly normal, decent guys, there just wasn't any chemistry. A couple turned out to be weird/awkward…

On days when we were dumb enough to stay at the bar until closing time, we spent an hour or more trying to get a cab. Sometimes we'd go to a 24 fast food place and hang out there until cabs became available again. Splitting cabs with strangers was also pretty common. When we did get a cab, we usually all piled into it…