Yeesh. That guy!

My dipshit father always loves to share his opinion about my dyed red hair. He doesn’t understand how roots work or what highlights are (I’m not even going to try to explain balayage) and gets mad that I just don’t “pick a color.” He’s an asshole.

I turned my parents on to Grace and Frankie.  It’s now the only thing they can agree on to watch together. 

As my brother in law once said, “I know sexuality isn’t a choice because women still date men.”  

I always laugh at the ‘men preferring women without making and natural hair’ thing - like, guys can’t even tell when women are wearing make up or have dyed their hair unless it’s incredibly obvious, unnatural colours etc. I wear make up all the time, and men only notice if my lips are crimson and I have winged…

Thanks for this insight. I’m 38, and the only one of my friends single, never married, and childless. I have always wanted those things, but I also never met anyone worth the compromise and I’m not well off enough to have a child by myself. I know my best friends pity me even if they aren’t happy in their own…

Over 40 here, never married but recently living with S.O. I have no desire to date if the current situation doesn’t work out. I’d spent the last 15 years living alone and actually find myself second guessing my decision to cohabitate. Sure, I’d seek out the occasional companionship from a gent that appreciates an older…

Men are really really bad at even telling if we’re wearing makeup, unless it’s like bright-blue-eyeshadow-red-lips. I’ve also been complimented on my “natural beauty” and I’m like, dude, I’m wearing makeup right now. Did you really think my eyelids were just naturally a darker beige than my skin?

The pixie cut is a great litmus test to weed out shitty men. I’ve had one off and on since college, and I generally feel like I get more attention with it, but in a positive way. If a guy starts dropping not-so-subtle hints about linking long hair, it’s maybe not a red flag, but a definite yellow flag, proceed with…

I’ve also found that men who say “I don’t like women who wear a lot of makeup” are really talking about heavy eyeliner and false lashes.

lol - nice! In my college days I had a pixie cut, because I just couldn’t be bothered to do my hair. I had two semi-serious relationships back then and both guys would always whine about my hair. Or drop not-so-subtle hints that they liked long hair. 

Nearing 50 and I wouldn’t be interested him anyway. In fact, after 18 years of marriage, if I were to divorce and be single again I wouldn’t be interested in ANY man. I would be far more interested in doing whatever the hell I wanted to do, answering to no one, and most importantly, only taking care of myself. If I…

I’ve always been attracted to men of a variety of ages, but though there were 50-something men I found attractive when I was 25, I definitely found men who only liked much younger women creepy as hell. It’s such obviously pathetic insecurity, and it was obvious to 16 year old me, 25 year old me, and 35 year old me.…

Or pedal their bike directly towards me in the crosswalk and just expect me to jump out of the way and are startled when my bellowed FUCK YOU ASSHOLE echoes off the buildings.

Yup. In my youth I got a lot of I don’t like women who wear a lot of make up, I like a natural look, like yours. FYI, I’m just too lazy to wear make up, I’d rather sleep for that ten minutes or whatever. I did have to laugh in the face of one guy who said he liked women that didn’t dye their hair like me, because back…

A white guy with a fetish for young asian women.

Here’s the good news- there are creeps that fetishize all types of women so it never goes away!!! (Sob). Ugh I remember living in Chicago and being wrapped in my puffiest coat one winter and STILL getting catcalled. Wtf?

I am short, grey-haired, and about to turn 54. I am therefore completely invisible. Even the weirdos and the drunks ignore me now because there’s no mileage in trying to score a cheap laugh by trying to scare a woman over 50: apparently I’m scarier than they are, just by dint of date of birth.

Curious too why he would fancy his own aging body worthy of a youthful encounter? Oh wait...he’s a man. Duh. Gotta say, while at 53 I do get a little bummed as my goods slide southward, but truth be told, the joy of ultimately not giving a crap how men like this view me is a delicious reward for aging!

Scientist (an astronomer!) checking in here. I don’t think it’s ok to bash or belittle people, but I find the recent resurgence of astrology deeply troubling. It’s not that astrology is useless or without logic. It’s that it makes testable predictions that have never, ever, ever been verified, but people believe in it…