My ex's father is a fancypants guy in Vancouver. He lives on the bay near the bottom of a mountain where there's a ski park. I am from Louisiana and I am not used to snow, so when I was there one winter, my guy and I went up the mountain. I didn't have ski pants, only jeans and the tights I had on under them, so I…

As a woman who is allergic to her own sweat, you don't get much sympathy. Vulva hives for days and I'm still not scratching myself in public or airing out my crotch on the bus.

Thankfully, this could also be treated by wearing underwear. You're welcome.

"We were actually fearing our safety and that's really not cool".

I came here expecting to have to defend peep-infused vodka, which is actually ok. What's not ok is roast chicken infused vodka (aka chickenshine). I hope that only one person thought that was a good plan and there aren't any pintrest posts about it.

The term sexual assault is applied to a variety of unwanted sexual contact because having more specific terms for the variety is telling everyone what was done to the victim, which the victim could find mortifying. It would likely bring down the reporting rate to have an ass grabbing category, a boob grabbing…

He obviously did this on purpose and unrepentantly, with an intent to shame her and open her up to harassment. The allegations were not determined to be "unfounded" by the criminal justice system and she didn't wait 20 months to file the claim.

Chris Brown's rapist committed an obviously sexual act, at an age where she was old enough to know better. This is behavior that could be sexual or not be sexual and both say it's not. You are making a false equivalence, which is different than the author cherry picking or not doing "due diligence."

Frankly, I'm appalled that so many people believe that they have the authority to claim that this is abuse based on the book. There is exactly one person who gets to decide if this is sexual abuse and that's Grace Dunham.

I'm not accusing her of being manipulative; I'm accusing the author of not doing her due diligence.

So let me get this straight: gamer dudes freak out that a guy in game acts like a stalker but women shouldn't when a guy acts like that IRL.

Hi! Female programmer and long time gamer here! I've been playing games longer than you've been alive, you hypocritical, lying, misogynist, narcissist who is somehow under the grossly mistaken impression that when women call you creepy it's because you aren't handsome.

It's clear that he's not involved in the BDSM community, not just because he doesn't get it, but because guys like him get bad reputations and we'd be at a higher accuser count. Many women use kink as therapy for rape trauma and women involved with BDSM learn to discuss things like that very clearly in advance.

And at the end of a week of having that done every day. And at the end of a year of having that done every day. And after 20 years of having that done every day.

I got it in Italy when I was 12 and even though many of the guys were handsome and I would have considered it complimentary at the time if they had been my age (because it was new to me), it creeped me out even then.

when is it ok to approach a woman and when is it not?

It's not like he watched the video. Men as awesome as he is have factual opinions and have no need to be informed. Because factual.

No, not greeting me in a friendly manner; hitting on me despite my body language telling you that I don't want to talk to you. You really need to learn to stop harassing women.

Just so you're aware, it is technically possible to be allergic to gluten. Wheat is one of the big 8 allergens and contains 4 proteins that can theoretically cause an allergic reaction, including gluten. This means that gluten is contained in one of the most common food allergens in the US. (Allergies change as you…

I'm going to keep meeting my dates at the LGBT owned/friendly BSDM coffee shop for games. If they can make it past that, they'll be doing good. No one cares if I am there with a new guy every night; they'd probably be happy for me.