Well, this paper shows that men are less attached to traditional gender roles after having a daughter. Also, there's this paper that showed that the number of daughters a congress person has is correlated with their propensity to vote liberally on reproductive rights issues. And, there's also a study that shows that…

It is impossible to live in America in 2014 and not have some sort of subconscious racial bias. Even if you know you have a bias, and that it's wrong to have a bias, it can be really hard to erase completely. We're all inundated with these cultural messages from childhood, some of that shit is going to stick no matter…

This was my first thought, as well. Especially, since the early OKC adopters were (I think) on average younger and more urban than the paid-subscription dating sites. The demographics have definitely become more inline with other dating sites in the last couple of years.

I actually kind of relate to the first part of this lady's "message me if" description, though I would never write that shit out in a profile. This point, especially:

Yeah, I kind of assumed he hadn't had one before or that it was significantly worse than whatever kind of migraine he'd experience in the past. I've only had one migraine in my life, and I definitely thought it was a stroke because my arms were tingling. So, I took my ass to the hospital, where I was informed that…

She's not using her own eggs, which I can only assume mitigates most of the genetic risk of having an older pregnancy.

Oh, the menopause-baby is definitely a thing. I've heard quite a few tales of women going to their doctor thinking they'd started menopause & then finding out that they're actually 4 months pregnant.

Ha! I got the exact opposite, in that I was the 19-year old nanny to a 4-year old and a 2-year old who lived in a very posh neighborhood & was regularly complimented on how cute "my children" were. This is funnier when you consider that, now in my mid-20s, I still regularly get carded while traveling in countries…

I personally like reading articles about women in their 40s & 50s starting families (with or without men). We hear about men starting family at those ages all the time, and somehow those articles are almost never about how old sperm is linked to an increased chance of birth defects & learning disabilities or about…

I definitely assumed it was a flexibility issue, because I'm a healthy young adult & I don't think I've ever been able to life my straightened leg above hip height (while sitting or standing). I could probably work towards it, but I've just never been flexible.

Nope, your response(s) sounded fine to me; I just need to remember to read comments twice before responding during ragweed season.

My apologies then, if I misinterpreted; I'm blaming my massive dose of antihistamines.

But Italian is also a romance language, so I don't really understand your point? English borrows a lot of words from the Romance languages, but also a lot from Germanic and Nordic languages. So pretending like there are any rules for pronunciation of any particular letter in English is kind of facile. The…

Giraffe and vagina have soft g sounds because they come from Romance languages*, not because that's some hard fast rule in English.

I'm saying what if the plate isn't terrible, but it's just not your thing. Obviously, if the food is bad or if it's prepared incorrectly, then send it back. But I've ordered dishes and been disappointed in them without there being anything actually bad or wrong about them. I would never send them back and expect not…

There's a difference between sending something back because it tastes bad and/or is prepared incorrectly & sending something back because it's not personally to your taste, though. Sometimes you order something to try something new & you end up not liking it. To me, sending it back when there's nothing actually wrong…

That's definitely the side I come down on 99% of the time. It's just a bit awkward whenever my friends want to chat about guys, because I feel like it can come off as kind of bitchy/like I think I'm hot shit when I'm not the slightest into any of the people being discussed.

Does anyone on here identify as a gray asexual? I'm curious as to whether I qualify, but the definitions I'm seeing most places are very vague.

This is straight BS, sorry. If you're a dude in your 40s and you find yourself only (this is the keyword here) dating women in their 20s it's almost certainly a sign of underlying immaturity. And I say this as a woman in her 20s who's been on a few dates with older men. It's pretty easy to tell who's into me…

She's British, she said "fookin' 'ell" no "fuck your mouth".