Haha, that's like my husband. He's a great cook and has a lot of fancy kitchen stuff that he doesn't want me messing with. We have a set of cheapo basic pots and pans that I use to make my pathetic terrible-cook meals when he's out of town.

Agreed! My husband and his mother did pretty much everything to prepare for our wedding - I took on the traditional groom’s role of “picking out what I’m going to wear and occasionally weighing in on colors/flowers/food when asked.” I had to defend my master’s thesis the semester before our wedding and event planning…

I so agree. One time, I was flying from Chicago to Hawaii on United, with a three-hour layover in LA. It was December 23 and I was going to visit my parents for Christmas (they retired in Hawaii, because they make good life choices). It was snowing in Chicago, and our plane sat on the runway for almost three hours -…

Agreed! Manners are about making other people feel comfortable - and also about respect for other cultures. For example, older Chinese- and Korean-American people (like my mother-in-law) usually get very offended if their children’s peers call them by their first names. If you teach your children to go around calling…

This. I am married but prefer “Ms.” - Mrs. Mylastname is my mother-in-law, as far as I’m concerned. I experienced a weird mansplainy moment about it a couple of years ago when I was volunteering as an ESL teacher - I was explaining the difference between Ms./Miss/Mrs. when my teaching partner (a German man who speaks…

Yes, like I said, I’m Jewish, and I understand perfectly well that this woman is not Jewish according to Jewish law (or even by the Nazis’ standards, as you said). I’m just saying that I can understand why a person who has a close relationship with a Jewish sibling (the fact that he’s her half-brother doesn’t mean…

I’m Jewish too and that stood out to me as well, but if I’m reading it correctly, her brother’s mother is Jewish and her brother lives in Israel (possibly with a Jewish wife?) So I can understand how she would feel connected to Jewish culture through her brother. Personally I'm okay with it.

If you keep running into women who are creeped out by you, maybe the problem is you. Has that occurred to you?

My grandmother is a pro at this.

Ooh, I did this! My husband and I had only been dating for a few months at the time, but we had told each other we loved each other and were kind of tiptoeing around the idea of possibly getting married. One big push towards marriage was that I’m in the Army and I had orders to go to Korea at the time. He could only…

So? I met my husband on Facebook. We chatted online for about eight months before meeting in person (we lived on opposite sides of the country) and then we got married about six months after we met in person for the first time. We also did not live together before we got married, and I wore a crazy (but awesome) hat…

Personally I think the “confidence makes you attractive!” thing is something that varies from person to person, just like anything else. I’m sure there are tons of confident, extroverted people out there with great romantic lives, but, personally, when I met my husband I think the best description of me would have…

Agreed! I’m 5’7”, but I have hips and high-waisted jeans make me look like a giant pear. Plus any item of clothing that squeezes my stomach makes me hate life.

With this particular troll, I think it sounds like a case of “women exist purely for my personal use, therefore the existence of a woman whose body I find unattractive is offensive to me.”

Sure! Arguably it’s a hat, not a fascinator. Either way I loved it.

True. I grew up in NYC and I remember turning twelve and being super-excited that I could now legally ride in the front passenger seat of a car, so when my family took a cab anywhere I would ask to sit up front. I stopped doing that after a few months because at least two-thirds of the drivers would hit on me. I was…

Just wanted to respond to the woman who is considering just getting a department store dress - go for it! I got a beautiful, full-length, backless white lace dress from BCBG for about $300, and it was a great wedding dress. Because it was off-the-rack, I was able to buy it close to the date of the wedding, so I didn't…

I have Lilly Pulitzer shorts with cartoon centipedes on them and you will have to pry them out of my cold dead fingers, because cartoon centipede. Also they are very comfortable and cost me about $35.

I agree, but it seems to me that that’s a problem that isn’t specific to genetic modification. I mean, people in Orange County already have access to vastly better healthcare than, say, impoverished people in rural Somalia.

Again, let’s recap: