Thank you. I'm sick of people assuming that I'm just lazy because I don't have a solid job, or that I'm whining about the same problems everyone faced. Employers fought for my parents when they graduated with advanced degrees. I've sent out about 25 resumes so far this year with not a single response, jobs for which I…

Ha, this is what I was thinking too.

I was just talking about this with my husband. We're both early Millenials. And we were fed the same ideas - do what you love and the money will follow, just go to college and you'll get a job. Well, we are still directionless. And up to our collective asses in student loan debt. And living in a one-bedroom apartment,…

My mom never talked smack about other women, she just persistently, consistently, determinedly hated her body for my entire childhood, subjecting it to endless diets, calorie-counting, and exercise pursued for purposes of weight loss, never the simple joy of doing an activity that she loved. She lost ten pounds,…

This article has given me the final push I needed to start browsing the maternity section. Clothes so cute!

As an atheist - you don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah, maybe there is something to this. We're all well-nourished (or at least eating ample calories) now, as opposed to throughout human history when it would have been more hit-or-miss depending on seasonality, etc. (Though it is a myth that all hunter-gatherers were/are poorly nourished - they were fine compared to…

Well I for one would like to thank these righteous warriors for saving my innocent white virtue from all the scary, scary black people.

I saw way more Confederate flags when I lived in Western Pennsylvania then I have seen now living in North Carolina. Somehow that seems pertinent to your statement.

We have a black cat too! I always like to spread the word about how hard black cats are to adopt. My folks adopt black cats whenever they have room for a new pet, and I know many shelter workers and volunteers who do as well.

When I got my first tattoo in college, my mom made her upset/annoyed/angry face, sighed, and said, "well, it's your money". (We're pretty uncommunicative and passive-aggressive in my family.) When I got married several years later all my tattoos were visible in my dress. When Mom saw me all dressed up, she touched…

Thank you. I don't get this objection at all. So your untattooed skin is gonna be so fucking sexy at 80? Give me a break.

North Dakota is big, and clinics in the neighboring states are few. So unless the North Dakotan lives in Fargo... not that feasible.

This is why I can't be one of those animal cops. They give those people guns.

I heard a story about a shelter who had a cat with a story like this who went viral - a solid black cat - and had like 5,000 applications for the cat. So they just kept adopting out solid black cats and telling the adopters that they were getting *the* cat.

Wow. The dean or university ethics committee it is, then. It should be easy enough to prove the plagiarism.

I took my husband's last name because it's rare and interesting, vs. my super-common maiden name, plus I got to move from the back to the front of the alphabet. I don't have any particular attachment to my maiden name but if I was already established in my field I probably would have kept it.

I understand this, it's difficult to know what to do exactly. Hyphenation is kind of awkward and an alternate last name, as you said, is not for everyone. This is probably the best solution.

Related to this, I know several couples where the wife didn't take the husband's last name, and their children have the husband's last name.

Obviously dudes are used to this, but it has always seemed to me like it would be weird to have something just hanging out down there between the legs. Like, bulky. Non-symmetrical if stuffed down one pant leg vs. the other. Deep thoughts, I know.