I'm so ambivalent about dating. I'm really focused on my career, but I'm also a little bit lonely. I've started feeling the urge to find companionship again, but it's so nice to never have to be concerned about sharing my time or my space. Getting used to working again is really draining, plus I hate online dating, so…

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I think it's unusual for small government employees for the reason that it's a small town gazette expose waiting to happen. "How can Leslie Knope understand the average Pawnee resident when she shops... in EAGLETON?!"

As a municipal government employee (and former parks & rec employee myself) they really should be wearing Walmart and Target clearance rack clothing...

The link doesn't work for me (it did minutes ago! I don't know what happened). May you please describe this lovely man? I'm interested to know how this man looks. I'm weird like that.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA one of the questions on the AMA:

I don't normally click links, but I wanted to check this out. First of all, dude needs some website design skills because this thing is straight out of 1995.

I like a girl that dresses on the conservative side. Not like a slut, and not anything weird. Just normal is fine. T-Shirt & Jeans are OK. But a girl in a dress really gets my heart racing! I also love it when a girl wears a mini skirt with boots, not cowboy boots, but sexy boots. Or high heels, I love spiked high…

I've actually seen most of the episodes of the show and it plays out very differently than this. Basically, in most cases Melissa appears to be humoring her husband like you would a fussy toddler, and also seems to be working him to spend money on her constantly. They also pretty much never show her cooking for him or…

I had NO IDEA I was so lucky to have student loans. It didn't even cross my mind. Now I feel shitty.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. Sorry for shouting. But seriously.

Right? Because what your average Chicago bar needs is some openly armed people. Damn it. (Also, who are these people who are afraid to buy coffee without a gun? I've been a coffee buyer for 20 years and I've done it all unarmed. Now I'm feeling like badass McGee here. Seriously.)

My favorite street harrasers are the ones who get angry at my failure to be enthused about their clearly brilliantly crafted homage to my ability to pass their "fuckable" standards.

"Laughter certainly doesn't mean consent." YES THIS!!

I know everyone is really rage-y about this, but that whole statement makes me sad. First of all, it doesn't surprise me to see another abuse victim defend their abuser. Here's someone who, as a young, defenseless child, was victimized by abuse AND now thinks it is OK. That is basically how abuser manipulation work;…

"Now, a hospital birth is safer than a home birth — although "no birth" is your safest bet."

I don't sleep well unless I climb into a freshly-made bed. Fact. My husband sleeps later than I do and ties the blankets up into knots so I will sometimes make the bed right before I climb in to go to sleep,but it always gets made so I don't have to climb into a tangle.

I cannot believe the self-righteousness of your comment and so many of the comments in response to yours. I'm in my early thirties, recently married, with absolutely no interest in having children at this juncture in my life (or in the preceding five+ years I've been in this relationship); my husband and I use the…

I think that you're comment misses a big point of this piece: that some women are AMBIVALENT towards pregnancy. This means that they don't have a "choice" to "own" because they haven't made a choice one way or another; they've just chosen to not choose on their own (sort of a 'whatever will be will be' approach). I…