Exactly! It goes along with the whole fairy tales-being-harmful thing...as you said, "the idea of the perfect lover or the perfect romance." If you expect nothing but perfection and think that's all love means, you're going to be seriously freaked out when you realize that other people aren't always kind and gentle…

Geez, you know...I've been going around the playground yanking toys out of the other kids' hands and telling them it's naughty to blow their noses and play on the monkey bars...but I can't figure out why no one wants to play with me anymore.

Holy shit, that was Jessica Chastain in that episode of Veronica Mars where the pregnant chick goes missing. SHE WAS THE PREGNANT CHICK! I love realizing I've seen now-famous people before, when they were not-so-famous.

LOL I voted for cocaine and I've never even tried it. For two reasons, one: new coke is lame. And two: this picture and all the hilarious memes like it.

This conversation, as many times as I've had it, still interests me. And here's why: I appreciate honesty. I mean, jesus, be tactful...but be honest with me. If I'd want my girlfriends to tell me what they think, why wouldn't I want my husband to? When I was in high school I used to drag my 7-year-old little…

Yeah, Portland and Seattle are the same way. I mean there are a shit-ton of artisan bacon and dessert-waffle food carts. Run by liberal arts majors. But there are also a lot of incredibly brilliant people who work at Intel or Nike or Kaiser. "Hipster" is a term that seems to be applied more and more liberally to…

Besides that this is disgusting, which I think is well-covered by the other beautifully-crafted tidbits in the responses, I have one comment:

Oh my god...you mean all the times I told creepers to fuck off when they, like, grabbed my ass in public...it was really just my pretentious, inflated sense of value THE WHOLE TIME? I've got to do some serious soul-searching.

I especially enjoyed "piffle" and "dootlin'."

Yeah! And creepy! I was thinking the same thing about the mom thing. Plus...if you love and respect your mother, how can you justify treating other women like dog shit? Isn't that the premise behind "do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Like...if you wouldn't behave that way toward your mother, should you…

I dated a couple guys last year who were 3-7 years older than me. 3 wasn't bad. But by the time you get to 7...I dunno, saying "Green Day" when they say "The Clash" is actually really embarrassing. It was all well and good for hanging out and boning and whatnot, but I'm happier now with someone my own age.

What I did: elope, and tell everyone about it later.

I don't care. Too excited. I think it's cool, anyway, that we get to be a part of it. Besides, I'm pretty sure those "wealthy celebrities" are contributing too—at least Kristen. She's been the one working hard for this since the show ended, and her support is a big reason that her fans stayed loyal and jumped on…

Okay...I'm 22. And my life is all laundry, Jezebel, and daily attempts to become a "real" writer. I don't hang out with 15 other girls, dressing up like hipsters (or cats) and laying all over each other on the beach. I don't know anyone who does.

This is very true. I was raised in a very conservative, religious home and even though I got out at 18, I remember I flinched at the word "feminism" until I was probably 20. It always sounded so pushy and nasty to me—like feminists were bitchy, loud-mouthed man-haters—and I didn't want to be associated with that. …

I talk to the nice ones. When my Armenian nana was alive, I learned from her and from my aunt how to read fortunes in coffee and about life in Syria and about our relatives and stuff. And I called my grandpa when I wanted to know about power plants, and I called my grandma when I wanted to know about quilting. But…

I don't know that we can say whether her *intention* was to suggest he's not allowed to slip. But I agree that it feels that way. If I found this list in my husband's papers from before we were together, I'd bring it to him worried that I didn't meet all his standards for himself. I'd be worried that the times I've…

Well yeah, but in Portland even some high-class executives wear Birkenstocks to the office. I don't know about the Bay area or Austin, but in Portland it is not really common practice to dress up for work until you're WAY the hell up the ladder.

I agree! I like seeing her do weird, I'm-not-a-Disney-girl-anymore stuff!

People who hate it just HATE it. I'm from there—lived there 20 years of my life—and while there were a ton of things I just loved about the place, it's so extreme that people's feelings about it are usually at one end or another.