My boyfriend would love it if society had a dress code like this. He's in his late 20s and he laments the fact that no one gets dressed up any more for the airport and people walk around in ::horrors:: jeans all the time. I imagine he would heartily approve of this place. So yes, there really are people out there who…

THANK YOU. I was going to post a damn-near identical comment.

I can't speak for all women, but I know that when I care about someone I fall all over myself to make sure their needs are met.

Maybe you're right. Maybe I have been conditioned. But something I've noticed is the change that occurs when you go from a friendship to a relationship. Whenever a friend has turned into a boyfriend, he almost becomes a different person. He treats me differently. The negatives really start to come out. I've seen it in…

I've had several older women, my mom included, tell me that men are basically stupid, selfish babies who won't ever consider your needs or your best interests unless you train them and force them to do so. They will walk all over you and cause you great pain unless you metaphorically beat them into submission. Every…

I didn't accuse you of anything, you delusional idiot. You are the one who keeps making things up. I don't know what your problem is, but you clearly have one. You are tiresome. Please go troll elsewhere, because I am done with you. Get a fucking psychiatrist. You need one.

Cool it with the false outrage.

What am I wrong about, exactly? You don't know everything about the situation. That's true. I haven't made any assumptions about this girl's life, unlike you. I haven't made any absolute statements. I'm going by what's in the article.

You sure like making unfounded assumptions about strangers' lives, huh? There's not enough info in the article to know much of anything about this girl. You're entirely too worked up about this.

Please re-read the article. She received a scholarship to this school, without which she wouldn't have been able to attend college. It's not like she had a choice of many different colleges. And as far as not everyone needing to attend college, maybe she felt she needed to go. She came from a family that could not…

A hot dog eating contest and a college education are comparable in no way.

I'm not sure what your point is.

OK, sad, here we go. Last year I was living seven hours away from my dad, so I didn't get to see him on Father's Day. However, I was able to go down the following weekend. My dad and I played guitar together, and he taught me "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and "People Get Ready." He said they were important songs. It was…

I wonder if she was aware of her sexual orientation when she enrolled at Grace. Another commenter pointed out that she signed an agreement that she would not engage in what the school considered sexually immoral acts, but there are plenty of people who start college thinking they're straight as an arrow and graduate…

Thank you. Not everyone can design a building or cure an illness or fix a car or teach children, but damn near everyone can pick up a pen and write. Thus, everyone thinks everyone can write. But can they write well? That's a different story.

If no one has ever checked out the website. www.GenderAds.com, you should take a look. I discovered it during a research project in college. Basically, people submit sexist and/or degrading ads to the site and the ads are categorized by how exactly they demean, degrade, promote stereotypes, etc. The ads predominantly…

I see what you're saying, although to me they're kind of the same thing. "It's not what I would do," is a gentler way of saying, "I would never get one." Saying they would never do it is the choice they made for themselves, but at least they respect the fact that other women feel differently and should be free to make…

It's not about that. It's about believing that a woman has a right to choose. If I were to get pregnant tomorrow, I think I would probably keep it. It just feels like the right thing to do for myself. But what's right for me isn't necessarily right for someone else.

Well, for all the talk of objectivity in j school, it doesn't exist. Nearly every editor I ever had was an agenda-driven nutjob. And I wound up paying for it. I would write something measured and fair, and the editor would add an adjective or two that I felt completely skewed the story into unfair, potentially…

I wonder what they think it means to be a feminist. I'm guessing they think it has to do with hating and emasculating men, but I'd like to see one of them write a definition of feminism just to get an idea of what's going on in their heads.