It's amazing to me that some of the people who replied know she works for The Guardian but never considered that maybe she's doing some research. That would just be too crazy for a woman who bleeds out of her vagina monthly! Everyone knows we can't think about work during our periods!

Not essential items? I say for 1 month all women boycott menstral products. We don't wear 'em. We leave pools of blood on subway seats, clots on the seats in restaurants, and splotches on the benches in malls and parks. Yup we walk around with big red stains on our clothes, we bike around with blood trickling down…

Brilliant.

how about button down shirts that are sized according to bra size and waist size? For example instead of my usual large size shirt, it would be 36D / 30.

Dammit, Cassie. Stop making us laugh at inappropriate things!

this is why i chickened out of going to my roommate's bachlorette party in vegas. they're all gorgeous, skinny girls, and i am merely average looking with a few extra pounds. having felt like shit my whole life about it (and yes, i've worked my ass off to try and lose weight, but it's a lose/gain/lose sort of battle…

mmmmm......waffles. And for the record, I am not vegan, but vegetarian, and I endorese both of your messages. I became a vegetarian due to issues with animal products, and I make many vegan choices, but this young woman's issues are more in her need for paralytic controls in her life rather than her diet.

THIS THIS THIS (not vegan, but vegetarian, and a very healthy athlete, and one who also had waffles for breakfast today).

This story seems like a typical example of the crab bucket (first read about it in a Terry Pratchett novel):

Ok...here tis. "Female" (as well as male) is traditionally an adjective. As in..." Here we find the female human in her native habitat". It is also used by military and police as a noun, deliberately chosen as neutralizing, and I realize this has become part of everyday language ...but it really is an adjective. So it…

Uh no, other humans refers to all humans who are not me. No one here is mad at people holding doors open for people.

It's because you're using an adjective as a noun. Females=Not okay. Female scientist, female police officer = okay (in contexts where it's necessary or relevant to point out that the scientist, police officer, etc. is a woman). Same with blacks, whites, etc. "Blacks are all over the television"=no, sir. "Black…

He lost me in the first bit because I just REALLY can't stand when men refer to women as "females." It just seems so derogatory and objectifying to me. Like they are trying to reduce us to our most primitive state.

Maybe she just had a fucking ugly baby. Sometimes babies are goddamned ugly.

I love these arguments.

I don't think it's the regular commenters on gawker (or deadspin or io9 or any other gawker site except Kokatu) - it's fucking KINJA. Before, trolls would just languish in the grey and before that, you couldn't even SEE them unless approved by a starred commenter. Now? It's like the douche dam broke and assholes have…

Your story = Proof of the Antichrist! PUT THIS ON A MILK CARTON QUICKLY.

Yeah it was the tutu one I was thinking of- I got it confused with her actual wedding dress which is not much better. That'll teach me for never buying OK!

Today I realized that I love hideous wedding dresses. Thanks for being a part of that self-realization.

NEVER has this been more appropriate.