Out of curiosity, are you east coast or west? I get the sense that the west coast is much more liberal about the tattoos/piercings/etc thing. (I lived in the PacNW for a while). I've also lived in Utah, and you can imagine what that's like.

I was actually surprised the first time I heard "bitch" on network TV, and I'm not that old. Stuff has changed really fast.

I don't know why that guy thought tweeting about his boner was even REMOTELY funny or acceptable, much less that weird-ass racist shit which I really just don't even have words for.

AND THEY COULD GO TO HER ART SHOWS. IT WOULD BE LIKE THE GILMORE GIRLS ON ALL THE DRUGS.

I would also say some of the best servers I've ever worked with are tattooed to the nines, and anyone who didn't hire them because of it would lose out on a kickass employee. I only have one tattoo and it's not visible unless I put my hair up, which, of course, makes it visible 100% of the time if I'm working at a…

Yeah, I got pretty flowers in light colors that are pretty hard to see. Also, I'm in journalism school, and everyone knows journalists are soulless heathens.

(Yay for your cool job!)

Probably, and omg I am so excited you commented on my comment because you are maybe my internet-commenter idol. If people have those.

I only meant my comment to be taken in the context of food service. Obviously the upper echelons of the corporate world will, as they always have, maintain a more conservative culture of presentation.

In the not-too-distant future banning visible tattoos mean you will have virtually no workforce pool to draw from, so there's that.

[signed, ex food service worker with a tattoo]

I, too, received that album, along with my black, square-neck, empire-waist dress with glittery butterflies on a mesh overlay.

I'm pretty sure I just threw out the bathrobe I got from them last year. IT WAS A REALLY GOOD BATHROBE.

You should have a thousand stars for this list.

ETA: I looked up all of these women. Based solely on appearance and IMDB profiles, Alexandra Billings has my vote.

I'm not sure I completely understand this comment, but I'm glad I found it. I was surprised to see that Elbe may have had Klinefelter's— I have a relative with it who, as far as I know, was assigned male and has never identified as anything else (he is part of a fairly conservative religious community, so I guess who…

I feel exactly this way. I was still covering her until embarrassingly recently. I'm going to stop now, but will keep insisting that I covered "Creep" on the ukulele first (because I did).

Plus, there are about a thousand things I would rather hear first, for example:

"You are incredibly stylish!"

"Your student debt has magically disappeared!"

"Congratulations on your Pulitzer!"

et cetera.

I'd been using the Jailbreak the Patriarchy Chrome extension, but forgot that it was on. It made this story even more bonkers, if you can imagine.

I'm pretty sure they didn't. It's been a while since they told me the story, but their hometowns are far enough apart and I specifically remember being surprised at Person A's intrepidness in leaving their state and coming all that way to a what is basically Mars without much meeting.

No, I don't think they'd seen each other face-to-face. It was a little crazy, but I met them about a year into their relationship and it seemed to be going swimmingly.

It's not! In my story, there's no "she" involved. :)

"Do people in these state legislatures just propose any kind of shit they want to without doing any research on it whatsoever?"

As someone who used to live Utah, I can say with certainty that that is EXACTLY how these types of state legislatures (the crazy ones) work.

In general, yes. I do know one very happy/very cute couple who met online and one of them moved across the country to be with the other and they're just great together. But! They met as bloggers writing about similar issues, not on a dating site.