Young folks today and their rock and/or roll. It's all the same, right?

If it's just about your own "prism," then it's not a movement by a group of people who are all marginalised for a single reason, and it can't be called "feminism."

This sentence doesn't make sense: "she imbues the men involved in these women's' lives as some kind of weird Ultimate Source of Power..." You imbue "with" not "as."

Who else is going to tell us how to earn money with our "labtops?"

It't the Marilyn Manson effect. It takes a few months to warm up and lose the goth, judging by Evan Rachel Wood, who was a gorgeous blonde before dyeing her hair and dressing exactly like Dita Von Teese for a year.

I assume you meant to say "gut reaction," but I kind of like the Freudian slip implied in "guy reaction." ;)

Oh I know what you mean, it is different when it's men. Sometimes they tell you you're pretty as though you don't know it, and as though they're doing you a great favour by confirming what you're desperately hoping is true.

Yeah, I guess "Bob" and "Johnny" sound a little too retro, and not in a good way.

Yeah, good point.

That's a good explanation, pricekx.

"Ace" is a nickname, dammit. Calling a child "Ace" is like calling him "Sprout," "Munchkin" or "Champ."

I hate the name "Cash." It sounds like the name of a literally cashed-up character from a trashy soap. It sounds like someone whose sister would be called "Paris." It sounds like the name of a Rich Kid From Instagram.

I know what you mean, but I think you need to lighten up. Sometimes when people you've just met tell you you're beautiful, it's because it's the first thing they've had an opportunity to notice. I sometimes tell people they're beautiful (I'm female) because I'm extroverted, and it's a way of creating an instant…

I know what you mean. I was REALLY plain growing up, until I had jaw surgery at 21. It was for medical reasons, but it changed the way I looked dramatically. A lot of people didn't recognise me. There was this one professor at university who was a creep, and tried to instigate affairs with a couple of my friends. When…

I think the way women talk about beauty, as ridiculous as it seems, is designed to be mutually encouraging. When you downplay your own looks, it's so that you don't make others feel bad, and when you tell others they look beautiful, it's to build them up. It may be an elaborate social ritual, but if it results in…

She always thought her nose was her one beautiful feature.

You look pretty in your tiny profile photo!

I can sort of picture you walking down a street and bumping into a quaint-looking gentleman with suspenders and spats and a handlebar moustache. Love at first sight, just like a silent movie. ;)

Ugh, I know what you mean. I have large eyes, a small mouth and a heart condition, so wish I was born in the era of Pre-Rapahelite painters, when women were allowed to be pale, mournful-looking and not very athletic. ;)

You look like the Childlike Empress!