Oh I checked his comment history and saw what I was getting into like... after the second comment. I’m done now, not worth the extra effort.

You can’t possibly be a woman.

Yes. Women and men are perfectly equal, racism is solved, cats and dogs live together, and inexperienced 20-year-olds are on a perfectly level playing field with mid-30s individuals.

I don’t think the story was supposed to make the reader super sympathetic to her. In another comment I say that I think the point of the story was to make the reader empathize with her, with her flaws and problems and insecurities and everything.

Just reverse the genders and ask yourself how this story by a guy would be reviewed by jezebel

She comes off fine in that story. There’s nothing all that terrible about judging someone as you’re deciding whether to pursue a relationship with them. She questions his taste in movies? She questions his attractiveness? She questions his sexual performance? Yeah, that’s what you do when you’re figuring if another…

At least where I live (major city in Canada), taxi drivers are NOT paid enough to live off of comfortably unless they own the taxi. So tipping should be a part of it, yes.

Men who complain about things like that are men who need a woman’s sexuality but only when they can control it. It’s not your sexy to to enjoy and give. It’s theirs to have a take.

Because only men have “guts.” Women have feelings and intuition, which is really just hysteria.

Thank you for articulating this, I’ve felt this for a long time. And I’m so sick of the garbage “advice” I’ve gotten. A friend who I love and depend on told me that as soon as I loved myself the relationship would follow, which is something I’ve heard from a lot of people. Like, good for you, not only do you have a…

Your screen name is killing me!

Relationships do take work, doubts are normal, and bad stuff often does make you stronger AND.YOU.SHOULD.STILL.TRUST.YOUR.GUT.

our buddy mel ‘raped by a pack of n-’ gibson lost a couple years, if you wanna use that as a benchmark

Agreed. So many times my gut has told me “this is wrongwrongwrong” and I’ve been forced to ignore it for the sake of politeness. In my a cappella group in college all the girls got major creep vibes from one guy during auditions, not social awkwardness but actually “please don’t leave me alone with this guy” vibes,…

It was literally thousands of dollars for each trip, and he flew them about 4-6 times a month. When that’s added to having no rent or utilities, no car expenses, a per diem on the road, and sundry other benefits, it was pretty good living for them. Sadly, I was an adult by then so got nothing...

I can think of times in my life when my gut failed to pick up on danger, but I cannot think of any time when it warned me and I was wrong.

My father, after the air force, spent his career as a commercial airline pilot, mostly on the Airbus A-320. My parents lived all over the world after accepting a job in Australia when I was 19. In the early-2000s, after a stint in Venezuela, he answered a call from an old co-pilot and randomly lucked into a position…

The second piece of advice after “run” is “but know that very few people will help you and those in power will actively make it harder.”

Say what? Pilots and taxi drivers are in the same category?

I don’t care how rich I am, it would never occur to me to tip A PILOT.