Exception: Deep South education. It took forever for a friend of mine who moved to the midwest from Alabama to refer to people as "Miss Smith" instead of "Miss Mary" in professional situations.

Maybe it's because I watched When Harry Met Sally last night for the millionth time, but I think you've truly arrived as a writer when someone unknowingly quotes your own words back to you.

He clearly didn't have THIS assignment peer-reviewed at the writing center.

At about 11:00 There's a trivia bit that says "50% of homeless youth are LGBT because of their sexual orientation." Typo or am I just not understanding the sentence structure?

WHAT!

Basically "I won't give fat-inducing candy to kids who are already fat. Instead, I'm going to give it to kids who aren't fat YET." ???

I guess it's worth noting that the article is titled "my mother who runs" and not "my mother who ran," though.

But it's HIS name. I get that to some extent it's arbitrary but if we're defending a woman's right to keep her name, that indicates that people have ownership over their names and it's not respectful for either person to take the last name of their S/O if it's not that person's wish.

Reread paragraph one, then contemplate your inability to comprehend two complete sentences.

I go to Iowa and the kids that run here are usually super-active representatives of the student body, not part of the "popular group" since that's not really a thing that's maintained at public colleges.

I'm not sure about other rivalries that aren't in the same conference, but that's why we play each other early on. Non-conference games first, then Big Ten.

My proud Panther sister told me this yesterday and it made my day! And my friend's girlfried, who was also a queen candidate, wrote a very gracious facebook post about losing to someone deserving.

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Agreed. Also throw in dust bowl-type farm women and industrial workers who had their hair all sorts of woven and knotted for practical purposes.

Well, that's all I need to call this a night. This gif

I'm sorry you live in that part of the world that gets Gawker but not Wikipedia

I've heard the purple thing for years now and I've never understood why it's remained such an uncool color to Abercrombie.

The dress code makes sense for store employees, but this is an article about the headquarters so representation makes less sense.

... So you're not one of "her" Native Americans, I guess!

This exactly. I know that Jezebel has a feminist mission statement but that doesn't mean that every author will express a unified viewpoint,and some do stick truer to the mission than others. It's not Erin's responsibility to fix Doug's misstep; she's simply written a more thoughtful and mission-centric piece on the…