The lab I worked in was researching the connection between psychological stress and physiological illnesses. We received ~20 million dollars in funding to run six research projects over the course of four years, and we were in debt by the end of those four years. Do you think that money was spent buying all of us…

PEOPLE! Official Disney illustrator sources confirm that the sparkles are NOT part of her regular dress - the sparkly dress illustration was made specifically for a sparkly frou-frou princess line of clothes, where all of the princesses are sparkly from head to toe. Her regular dress has no sparkles.

Oh shit, this was me in high school. Had a great yelling match with a Physics 12 teacher who did exactly that - handed out busywork packets, and didn't even understand the subject he was supposed to be teaching. Half of the time, when asked to explain something conceptually, he would just blubber through the solution…

Yes!! Just this morning. Looking at those coverflips made me very, very sad because I realized I would not pick up ANY of the books with "girlified" covers because all I could think of was how much of a waste of my time reading Gossip Girl in high school was and shudder. (I'm one of those people who couldn't put down…

Hmm, we had the cup analogy in school.

I kinda had to - I was a virgin when we started dating 4 years ago, basically started fooling around on the first date (72 hours after we first met!), and then eventually I was like so um, I don't really know how this all works on a hands-on level, juuuust FYI.

Wow, really? That's... really sad to read. The first time I realized I was a woman was when I was 20, and I understood that I was the only one who had the right to control my life and make decisions about my future for myself, and consequently made them (also: after I held a first full-time job). That was when I felt…

Yes! They've been married for a while now and have a child (children?) together, and sound like a super-awesome couple.

I'm gonna be honest, when I was a kid I probably would have saved up my allowance for this shit.

Oh, when I said "older" I meant "women likely over 25", to distinguish them from the teenage fangirls that tend to be the loudest (and like the prettiest boys - as they should, since that's what boys their age generally look like). Not the best turn of phrase, I admit.

You know, people bring this up a lot, but compared to the guys up top (even Nightwing!) Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans are slender little things with curvaceous hips and low muscle tone. Yes, women (especially older women, it's an age thing) like fit/muscular guys. When they like Chris Hemsworth, or Chris Evans, they…

Yeah, I remember he was proudly telling me that holy shit he met one of the bad guys (!!1!!11) because he was speaking to a journalist who didn't want to buy the zeitgeist 9/11 "the guv'ment blew up the twin towers" garbage he was trying to shill. So he was all "OMG I MET A GUY WHO WAS IN ON THE WHOLE THING! HE WAS…

OMG YES. I know a quack who buys all of this woo woo shit wholesale (and I mean the whoooooole package, from zeitgeist 9/11 conspiracies to vaccines to medicine to plant growing (?)... I'm surprised he doesn't wear a tinfoil hat).

Well, too bad.

Mmm... I wonder if she meant "really low-cut cleavage clothes" (see: Brandi from Desperate (?) Housewives (?) from the recent Oscars) versus "women with big boobs and therefore bigger cleavages"? Her use of the word "understated" makes me think that's what she meant.

Ridley Scott supposedly uses the idea of rape in his Alien movie (there is no real... rape I guess - not anything an average viewer would consider "rape". It's an alien creature that implants its egg(s?) in a guy's throat/stomach/chest/whatever by entering through his mouth). He said that he was tired of all of the…

I've written this before: there is no male equivalent of a Mary Sue. Because male Mary Sues are the heroes of beloved and popular IP's.

See, I understand term papers. They actually teach you useful skills (how to research, how to read academic writing, how to formulate your arguments, how to write essays - maybe even how to manage your time) that are applicable in the real world, and to real jobs. Even the topic of the essay itself is completely…

D:

I'm going to guess that if it was a 6'1", 180 pound woman and a 5'1", 100 pound young man who got body-slammed for calling her a "bitch" after she came in and raged at (presumably, a likable) teacher for finishing his/her exam a few minutes late (which really meant that s/he gave his/her students the full time to…