From my understanding, once you deploy you don't wear makeup anymore. You don't dress up pretty and fun. You're there to work and be in the grime and the muck.

I bought a sewing machine for just this reason. Screw paying $500 for something I can make for $20.

Love this guy.

Love this guy.

Reading these comments as a woman who looks much like the women in these photographs has made me very, very sad.

Reading these comments as a woman who looks much like the women in these photographs has made me very, very sad.

So does this count as 'revenge-porn'? I mean it's words, not photos, but it sounds like she's describing and disparaging a sexual encounter with an ex whom everyone in that circle/area is likely to know.

We had pretty great sex-ed in my schools (middle and high) growing up. The teacher would talk about something and then stand back and let the students ask ANYTHING. Anything from 'Does X feel good when people do it to each other' or 'What are the outer flaps of skin commonly referred to as?' or my personal favorite:…

Not saying the guy was right, not at all. I am saying it might not be a race thing. None of us know what's going on at this stage. Yes, press for answers - don't make up your own. BAC would be important to the case because it might mean that she wasn't behaving calm and composed and coherent the entire time. Doesn't…

Not saying the guy was right, not at all. I am saying it might not be a race thing. None of us know what's going on at this stage. Yes, press for answers - don't make up your own.

The BAC is important to me, simply because it indicates she could have been acting crazy. What if she didn't just knock on the door, but was banging on it, yelling, etc.? We don't yet know what happened - stop calling this a racial thing until we know more please.

Men do it too.

Exactly my thoughts, OP. While some of these costumes are inappropriate (KKK guy would have been thrown out of my party) I would HAPPILY host an Africa-themed party. Yes, Africa is a continent. But most people don't know enough about the nuances of each individual country to throw, say, a Cambodia party.

Throwing an…

This apparent 'trend' of sexualizing little girls' themed stuff (Miley's VMAs, now this) is actually a little alarming to me.

Color me niave but I think this could work really well. In an age where women are struggling to 'have it all' the desire to find a mate with whom you can settle down with and raise children while juggling a career and friends and the pressures of adulthood, finding a man whom you not only like/respect/love but whose…

Eh .. everything in moderation. When I was a kid I wanted to be a Princess. It never occured to me that I couldn't be a Princess AND an astronaut, which in Kindergarden is what I wanted.

Easy. Sexist thing imaginable is a man who knows his history. I think the moment I realized that I really and truly loved my boyfriend was at the West Point Museum in New York, when we were looking at a luger (Serial No. 7!!) and he was demonstrating with his hands about how it loads and unloads. I just ... I just…

I am very picky about who I date. I've only been on one online date, after a thorough vetting of the guy - we've been together three years and I never in my life dreamed that I could know and be loved by someone so wonderful. Online dating is great, but be selective!

Wow, feel like the author here is a liiiiiiiittttttle too 'man-hating' today. Personally I'm glad men even wonder some of these things, much less take the time to try and find out. And we always tell people, "If you don't know the answer, ask." Don't be such a bitch, author, at least they're asking!

Example: Guy from…

How is that not bullying people? We encourage people not think things that are so hateful, but people have the right - if they so choose - to be hateful. I would MUCH rather them be hateful and not try to legislate it down other peoples' throats than to have them try to make laws banning what they believe is wrong.…