Actually, research suggests responses to expressing anger are significantly different if it's being expressed by a man or woman. Expressing anger lowers a woman's status but not a man's in the workplace.

I'm pretty confused. You seem to accept that tears are inevitable and a natural response to a lot of things, so they're OK if you take a walk/go to the bathroom/otherwise try and manage and/or hide them. Is that a fair summary? But that's not always going to be something you can do, and people WILL see. And in this…

Is Polanski forgotten about, though? It happened when I was but a pinhead in my mother's ovary, but I've known about it for years, and thought he was a skeeze (to put it mildly) for just as long. The French authorities have also not forgotten. And, needless to say, nor has the woman he raped when she was 13.

How does sexually abusing your girlfriend's daughter get "apparently settled"?

I asked Jez to write up that article; I'm disappointed they didn't, because I found it fascinating.

Just to point out that some of the women in this article live in Kathmandu and Dhaka, which are capital cities, although Kathmandu suffers badly from power cuts. In villages, Tatopani, for one, has internet, because I've been there. It's part of the Annapurna trekking circuit and draws a lot of Westerners. Some of the…

Nepal doesn't have a stable electricity supply; Kathmandu experiences blackouts more or less every night. Some of the mountain villages have more stable power because they have hydroelectric generation setups, but access to internet is indeed pretty limited, although they may have it at school.

No problem. Have you been looking at any areas in particular? My advice would be to stay somewhere there's a tube stop if you aren't here for long - the buses and mainline trains are great, but the tube is easiest to navigate if you don't know the city - and to stay no further out than Zone 3 if you really want to see…

Oh, I am so stealing this.

There's still an assumption there that you don't even realise you're making. Death is the cessation of your body's systems, but that's not intrinsically a "failure" unless you believe that they're designed to go on forever, and that that's desirable.

The cab issue can be tackled by downloading the Hailo app; you can use this to summon a black cab at any time and you'll get its registration plus driver's name and phone number. But it's also very worth picking up a card for your local minicab firm or checking out the night and 24-hour buses.

I recommend Borough Market, a huge foodie market that runs Thurs - Sun. Look out for events at Somerset House, which is right on the Strand and runs outdoor film screenings in summer. Don't be ashamed to go to the museums, they're world-class and attract as many Londoners as tourists. I love the V&A and the National…

Why not just say "crush" then, though? Because I agree that the qualifier "girl" is used to desexualise it and make it "safe".

Heh. Steal away!

I really need you to marry me. That's cool, right?

I'm so sorry that happened to you, and that the authorities did not give you the support and the justice that you deserved.

HA! The bf I had at 18 is gay too, although we fooled around again during his brief stopover in Bi-town while we were both at uni.

And I realise this is not exactly the most problematic thing she's saying, but. Is it me, or does she just sound detached from reality all round?

I'd love to know what she means, exactly, by "work will wait". Like, no, you don't have to dedicate yourself singlemindedly to your career at the age of 22, but you can't in fact fart around and/or not work for very long without hurting your prospects, and it usually takes some hard work to get into a good financial…

BAH. I'm sorry. The US insurance system sucks beyond belief.