I am talking about times when I actually ask men out or for a number, and when my friends have done the same. Not passive rejection based on someone not taking up a smile or stare as an invitation to approach. I think I made that clear where I wrote about me asking a man out.

Women get rejected a ton. Sometimes more than men do. A lot of men aren't used to being pursued, and so they turn a more wary eye on it than even women do. My experience has been (YMMV) that unless a guy has already decided he wants to date me, me asking him out will not get me anywhere.

I don't see any before/after pictures, so although I have heard your version, I have heard others say it was not elective.

Not to be crass, but Emily Post is dead and has been for some time.

Servers at expensive restaurants do tend to make less because of the tip-pooling, and they do have all kinds of quizzes on the food and the wine and the silverware and such.

My sister worked at a really expensive restaurant and barely made minimum wage. It is because of the combination of tip pooling, and the fact that they give the new waitresses lots of shitty shifts.

I have dissed blindingly hot men for being assy. They look less blindingly hot after that, but some of the men I have shut down are hotter than most of the men I have dated.

Doctors really cannot prevent miscarriages most of the time. They can give you c-sections, or prescribe bed rest (which usually makes things worse, with a few exceptions) and they can tell you your pregnancy is over.

I do not think I would be late, but I probably would avoid ultrasounds as much as possible until the second trimester.

They fail a lot, and overstate their successes. Some ladies like snark. And sometimes, it is hard to tell online if someone is confident or assy offline.

I can see arguments for full decriminalization.

I think that making it illegal to arrest alleged prostitutes would be a much better world. And I am really concerned about the possible issues with transpeople. Perhaps they need to make stricter guidelines for what it takes to arrest someone on suspicion of soliciting.

See, I just don't know that the article shows that feminists are turning anybody in for sodomy. They may be reporting that women are trafficked or underage, and if those reports are false, that is incredibly problematic, particularly if the laws then punish the people who have been reported as victims.

Based on what you wrote, I do not believe that you can tell if people are lying, particularly over the internet.

It means that if the Johns hurt them, they can report the men with far less fear of reprisal.

How on earth could you possibly know if women are lying about or exaggerating pain?

I do not think feminists are behind 200-year-0ld Louisiana laws.

That's pretty harsh. She did report pain and injury based on size, and it can happen. Chafing down there can be a real problem, especially with the popularity of certain sports/types of clothing.

I am sorry you went through all of that. Of course there may be valid reasons for the surgery, but a lot of the time it does not seem to come from people getting injured/suffering pain as you did. It seems instead to do with expectations about what is "normal" aesthetically.

The problem is this: it isn't that it is a sympathetic depiction of torture, it is that it is an inaccurate portrayal of torture leading to intelligence results.