I feel like Jezebel just did a shitty job of covering this situation. Most schools ban midriff-baring tops. But a quick Google search reveals that other banned items include sweatpants, skinny jeans, leggings, hoodies, and headbands. I'm 27, and I own one pair of jeans that AREN'T skinny. I just bought a pair of…

I've loudly spoken out against Modesty Culture.

...and this is why what you're saying isn't racist. You're talking about the compatibility of your values with the values of another. Judaism, Jewish Culture, and Jewish Ethnicity occupy a unique space in this conversation because they create an overlap that I'm not sure you find in other places.

If someone said,…

Actually, everyone likes white women less in 2014 than they did in 2009, including white men.

It is complicated because I would say that if you're checking Christianity and Values Family and Wants Kids, that is not at all going to limit you to one race specifically. I guess I just find most of the questions on OKC and the user-generated ones to be so completely applicable to absolutely anybody that to narrow…

People keep asking this, so I'm going to answer it for everyone: If you eliminate the possibility of dating an entire group of people based on their race, then yes, that is racist. Really, really racist.

Social pressure is a huge factor in how people date, which I think the article was getting at. It would be an amazing coincidence if black women, who are basically ignored in the media/society, just also happen to be the least desirable choice for dating.

Oh God, cue the 'YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHO YOU'RE ATTRACTED TO' chorus.

On a dating website like OKC, you can find someone with an identical profile to yours in pretty much any shade under the rainbow. You can set every parameter for religious, cultural, goals, etc. and people of all colors will likely show, more than your lot at the neighborhood bar at least. For those users to still be…

"Is having race-based preferences in sexual attraction considered racist now?" FTFY.

in the quoted section, I put it in bold. In my response to that quote, I used all caps.

Um, did you miss the part where I put "blame" in bold? I'm raging that Vogue thinks J. Lo might need to be BLAMED for popularizing a perfectly natural body feature, as though it is a bad thing.

I never realized how objectively gorgeous she really is until recently - without the colorful makeup/wigs/etc. She looks amazing these days.

No, I was responding more the tone and the items about the poor girl who couldn't spell and the man who wanted some nachos and nicely left when he found out they weren't an option. The spelling thing really rubbed me the wrong way, especially since the server's phonetic spellings were really quite logical.

Or...they thought it would have fewer calories than the non-diet Pepsi? I'm not sure why it's stupid to go with the option that's X number of calories rather than X + 150 (or whatever) calories, if you like the diet soda as well as or more than the non-diet version (or if you're adding enough stuff to the drink that…

Or they just preferred the taste of Diet. Once you drink it for long enough it tastes normal and "normal" soda tastes horrendously sweet.

I've done that before. Not because I thought the diet drink would cancel out the ice cream, but because I was willing to waste calories on the ice cream, not on the soda. Same thing with getting a fast-food burger and a diet coke—I'm willing to adjust the rest of my day's eating to accommodate a burger (sometimes),…

That makes perfect sense, one of my closest friends has a horrible time with food of certain textures, to the point of anxiety attacks.

But it's way more plausible to tell a waiter "I really don't like crunchy food, could you please warn me if a dish is crunchy when I order?" than "I HAVE AN ALLERGY TO TEXTURE". Honest…

The customer who walked in with three kids, sat at a table and asked one of my servers, "Do you guys have nachos?" (I'd like to point out that he would have walked directly by the sign on the front of the building that read "authentic Italian thin-crust pizza") The server informed him that we did not, but we did have…