Pssst. Men don't read profiles. Just FYI.

I was looking just to see if anyone else had posted this first :)

Why is it so important that they believe you?

Uterus haver + something we can't explain = it's all in your head. Old, old story. Remember when doctors insisted PMS wasn't real? Personally, I have gone to the doctor with a number of different complaints, and when I looked at the paperwork I received, the diagnosis read "depression." Once they decided that, it…

Uterus haver + something we can't explain = it's all in your head. Old, old story. Remember when doctors insisted PMS wasn't real? Personally, I have gone to the doctor with a number of different complaints, and when I looked at the paperwork I received, the diagnosis read "depression." Once they decided that, it was…

The one time I actually was pregnant, before I realized it I thought, man, this is the WORST PMS I have ever had! I sometimes feel the fluttering movements of a younger fetus, although it's doubly impossible that I can be pregnant, since both my husband and I are no longer able. It's a very specific feeling, and I…

I've had some extensive experience, too, and this is about what I'd say. I think 6 is more the average.

Over the years I have found that to be soooo not true that the "fetishists" are creeps who treat women poorly. Men who like or even prefer big women have their own self-acceptance issues going on just like we do. Of course it's possible to run into some creepy dudes on the internet anywhere you go. But I'm not…

The morning after, they go out for breakfast and some really-too-old-to-be-doing-that young "men" taunt her openly for her weight, upon which he proceeds to fuck them up but royally, and I will admit that I cheered that scene without an ounce of shame. For the record, I have in fact had that sort of thing happen more…

One of my favorite parenting moments: my fourth grade son reported to me that he corrected a classmate when she mentioned that she had "seen a boy's vagina." Sooo...that does show some progress, perversely, doesn't it?

Damn right.

Oh god yes. Such cases of fuckmouth with no justification.

Good luck with that, man. Addicts are the best damn liars and manipulators on the planet, and it usually takes many relapses before they (if ever) hit their rock bottom and manage to stay sober. Don't get me wrong, it's hell on them, too, and there but for the grace of God go I—but, just sayin', no one could pay me…

I forget what comic said this, but: you experience only two emotions—rage, and suppressed rage.

None of these points are wrong, but come on, could there be a sweeter disapproving letter ever written? The writer was obviously quite earnest and thought she was telling the meteorologist something no one else would. I don't agree with her, but can no one here have any compassion toward someone whose life obviously…

I'm married to a mechanical engineer. He makes me pee myself laughing frequently (I'm middle-aged) with his malapropisms. Yesterday it was "moral perpitude." Good times.

No, you just have to read multiple hundreds-of-pages-long books each week. That usually shut them up.

I start by making them stand up an introduce a partner on the first day and point out that it didn't kill them. I also include lots of reporting of results/answers from the many group activities we do. Most of the time I let whomever they've designated as speaker do the talking but sometimes mix it up so the…

Dude! I am sooooooooooooooo going to get a t-shirt saying that. That is fucking brilliant. I'm not kidding the least bit. I hate that instinctive recoil people try to hide when I say I'm an English teacher. Deep wounds and so much deprogramming I have to try to do in such a short time. At least sometimes they will…

Uh, yup. I agree. However, I am but a lowly 20-year adjunct. Mostly I am glad if it comes in something resembling English. #communitycollegeblues