Sometimes I tell people "I can't" (which in many ways is true). Shuts people up real quick. Once I was stupid enough to say that my husband has a vasectomy and I got "OH well then you REALLY have to be careful about getting pregnant!" I was like, what the everloving fuck - WHO SAYS THAT?

What a shit. At least he had something right... you probably wouldn't get along. I doubt his wife likes that he's trying to bang 19 year olds and then gaslights anyone who asks about his wedding ring by explaining that he is diiiiivooorrrsed from such heeeteronoooormative thinking, and omfg hahahaha people can wear…

It's hard to tell, but I doubt it. I genuinely think he doesn't like women, except for all the sweet young pussy he brags about fucking or whatever vomit he talks about. Never those stale-bread 30-year olds, though. Anyway, I don't think this guy will be announcing his true feminist cred ever. Pretty sure he is…

I am a burner, so I can't hyperlink so be patient, please.

This would get me pretty angry, too. Being an engineer is awesome (I'm one, too!) so I bet your sister worked hard in school and now as a professional to get shit done. Your cousin is just flippantly dismissing that hard work and (probably) ignoring what your sister wants in her life. I am not sure calling him up will…

Yes! And - speak of the devil and the devil appears. Bleh.

Definitely a dude. I tried to explain to him yesterday that his "jokes" about kicking a woman hard enough in the stomach to cause a miscarriage weren't funny.. he wasn't getting it and went on to explain that he says these things because he doesn't "idolise" women. Lots of the stuff he starts gets deleted and for good…

Agreed. When did being against rape become so controversial?

I read the article. I am trying to show how I can see where the market is coming from because I share the same type of skin, have the problems associated with that type of skin and am under the same pressure to have lighter / clearer/ more even skin as they are. It's part of colourism - pressure to look lighter; they…

Where's my editor!

Clearly these are toxic, harmful products. Months and months ago I went for a long run and stupidly wore a bra with underwire that rubbed a bit. I still have the 3 shades darker perfectly underwire shaped hyperpigmentation mark on my chest under my boob. I am starting to think it'll never go away. Anytime I scrape…

If you have dark skin sometimes a knick, cut, blemish, even bruises, can leave a hyperpigmented mark that can last for months (years even!). Imagine the one pimple you get before your period would leave a dark spot on your face for a year and add the spots up as you go. Tell me you wouldn't be sick of it after some…

Ok, you are right, I shouldn't have assumed your thoughts on men and internet lying. You can comment to your hearts content, I agree. But the comment about cause and effect lead me to believe that you think this article is about something it never purported to be. It is about her experience. Would she not have had…

To put things in perspective - the ideal woman's body is one that she (MAYBE!) had immediately after hitting puberty. Try maintaining that for life. If you ever get married (if you aren't, not clear from your post) and you and your wife (if you are hetero!) want to get in shape / lose the fat in a supportive manner -…

This is fucking awesome.

I am sorry she threw 15 years of friendship under the bus for the hope that her pictures might look like a wedding magazine editorial. They probably won't. They'll probably be cringeworthy, like everyones are, in a shorter amount of time than she hopes and she'll have hurt you for no good reason. This is not the way…

That still doesn't make what this is about. This a person retelling a lived experience, coloured by her past. The point of the article is about certain rude behaviours that she, because of her lived experience, doesn't like. This is about her life. It is not an essay about the so-called root cause of the rude…

The article is about how a woman had some men say rude things to her and how some of these particular rude things meant more to her because of her past. It wasn't about how people don't like being lied to on internet. And you don't have to tell us men care about how we look. Our lived experience tells us this. Most of…

More being a better judge of reading comprehension, less bitching afterwords.

Feel free :D Not sure it's gonna help, lol.