Hmm perhaps it's a good thing then that the guy I'm seeing apparently does usually like blondes, but my personality reeled him in (things that I have gathered from a conversation we once had).

And that is totally legitimate and you totally have the right to do so. Whenever an atheist guy shows interest in me online, I'm pretty up front with him about that fact for exactly the reasons you state. I respect their atheism, but if they're interested in any actual relationship with me, they have to be able to…

Online dating can make you feel very uncomfortable about yourself. I'm a white woman. I get messaged by black men a lot. I never message them back.

Lol, I'm from/live in North Carolina, so I am very well aware of our particular brand of racism. It was just kind of hilarious juxtaposed with the brand brought down here by the supposedly "progressive" north. Suuure you're not racist, girl from New York. Perhaps I might believe if you didn't go to the Wal-mart on the…

Yeah, and it's not like we want to be there either. In solid relationships, one partner must be willing to suffer with the other, right? I think that's in the wedding vows somewhere... "For richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, at church services that neither of you want to be at but are suffering through for…

So accurate. I'm from a pretty racist area of the south, yet when I went to a college populated largely by northerners, I was shocked by how racist they were. Maybe because it was primarily rich white kids, they were the types that liked to say that they weren't racist, but actually were very much so when confronted…

Exactly. I'm religious in like the loosest sense of the word (I believe in a god, but I don't believe in organized religion), so religion is not a big dealbreaker for me. It is if a) someone expects me to legitly join up with their religion, or b) they won't humor my family, because I'm not going to date someone who I…

I feel like OKC needs a religious descriptor option that says something like "not particularly serious about it, but my family is so you need to at least be willing to tag along when they inevitably make me bring you to a religious event with them".

I'm a fan of co-ed sports. I feel like co-ed sports do a lot to improve gender relations.

When you take into account those pregnancy tragedies, this is kind of poignant. It like the women were saying, "No we're not going to have sex and risk pregnancy because with this shitty road that might mean death for us."

Ha, thanks!

That's the idea, though you can have different body types and races represented and still have the same effect. Larger figures wear certain clothes better than skinnier models and vice versa. Different skin colors show off different colors better. Like if I had a fashion show (I'm a seamstress and designer) I would…

Not really. There's not a whole lot of overall body difference between the waifish male models and the waifish female models. Sure, some designers prefer buff male models, but plenty of others don't.

Will this willingness to think outside of the box when it comes to what's "fashionable" eventually extend to seeing more ethnic diversity and more plus size models in fashion?

That would be an awesome Hell House. Terrifying because of the harsh truths, but effective.

Oops double post.

Omigod. Because Santa Claus is totally an alternative to "pagan" costumes. The ignorance both saddens and amuses me.

Oh wow, what a blast from the past. This makes me remember the "Judgement House" that my church youth group (when I was still in church) would go to every year (I never went, because I don't do horror of any kind). I had never heard of these as being called Hell Houses, but in retrospect that is totally what it was.…

I was discussing this with a friend the other day and we did some math- his wife I spent like 15 years of her life pregnant. 15 YEARS. Holy fuck.

A+ book reference.