Ha! Cycle of shame — brilliant and I feel the same way. These days, I know I'm probably going to hate one of his movies, but I'll watch it anyway (Antichrist), hoping to see something that really opens up the mind, but of course I'll hate it, and then hate myself for watching it. I wonder if this is his goal.....

Ha! Don't sell yourself so short to assume they are going over your head! Lately his films are little more than overwrought attempts at deep meaning, but end up being empty shells instead. If anything, they are so flimsy that what you're experiencing is their utter lack of meaning or relevance at all.

Haha, this is the exact reaction I have to a lot of these. It kind of makes me feel so bad for guys the way they have to configure their junk to walk around in public. Dick shoved halfway down a pantleg? How uncomfortable must that be?!

Wait, I'm really confused. Is this actually political grandstanding? I read the article too, through a separate source (ProPublica), and it actually sounded like the restaurant was making early changes so that it could be in compliance with the ACA by the time required in 2015. It didn't sound like they were being…

No, not at all. At this stage in my life, I'm more inclined to want to go out with a guy who can more deeply reflect on his own life and what's important to him beyond silly status signifiers. But maybe that's not something people "grow out of," as I have in my own life. Maybe with some people it's just what their…

I just want to say that I think you are totally normal, and I think ultimately it's a great thing that you still find your wife so attractive. I think that's an important thing for women to remember in their relationships with men, who are less sexual than their partners, when they may start to feel pressured or…

I read the article a couple of days ago too, and what I liked about it is that the mom stressed that she herself is not into fashion at all, but that she thinks the activity is cool for her daughter because she's learning skills out of it (measurement, design, construction, etc.). I'm inclined to agree, no matter…

Ha! This is interesting. Just the other day I made a comment in my OkCupid profile about how I was kind of saddened by the number of male profiles I read that referenced certain physical attributes (beards and tattoos) that seemed to be the one thing that made them attractive as potential suitors.

Can I say that it really weirds me out when someone wants to date someone specifically because they look like a celebrity? That seems like the worst kind of superficiality to me — "You remind me of this gorgeous famous person, therefore you are as hot as them and I must date you." No thinking about the lookalike as…

Totally agreed. Also, here's a thought: I think on some level, attractive people know they are attractive — they probably have people telling them this often, and in the case of OkCupid, if you're getting tons of messages all the time, you know you must be doing something right.

It also makes me angry that no one — I mean common neighbors or other people around — didn't notice or do something. With the system failing them, it's even more infuriating when other people don't take action. I know a lot of people are afraid, or don't want to get involved, but if I met one of these kids on the…

Oh good! I was hoping someone would make a Wrath of Khan reference!

My brother attended U of C undergrad. I never heard any stories like this from him, but my brother is a total harmless nerd sweetheart who would never have anything to do with frats.

Your story is so terrible :( I'm so glad you were able to get out of that situation and heal. One question though, which maybe you just didn't get a chance to mention because your story is long - how does this inform your thoughts on the post at hand - the Woody Allen thing? You don't need to come down on a…

Ugh. Your story sounds so horrible. I'm sorry you had to go through that :(

Ha, yes. Except that Mia herself said that her son may have a different father than everyone previously thought.

First of all I would like to say I completely agree with you. But there's something else you say that gives me pause about this whole situation —

Agreed. This article, and many of the comments here, have the feeling of a veritable witch hunt — eager to jump on the emotion train despite no connection to any actual first hand knowledge of the situation.

It's great that you've cleaned yourself up and made positive changes, but as someone who had to cut a bad, toxic friend out of my own life, it sounds weird that you say cleaning yourself up was what "destroyed having a long term friendshp" with your friend. I don't know your situation, obviously, but I highly doubt…

That's terrible! I'm surprised that you seem to speak about it without much anger - that's a great credit to you :)