Question: I was discussing this article with my husband, and he wanted to know how women ever manage to go on any online dates if this is their experience. Specifically, before we were together he went on a ton of online dates, and he wondered how any women had managed to reply to him. I never did online dating so I…

Sorry, dumb question. Where is the built in Mac-zipper? I can unzip no problem but don't know where to find this utility to do the compression side.

"*It's also a great way to make people hate being around you. OH WELL, THOUGH. Oh well. I've long embraced my role as a broken-record Red Ajah nightmare shrew, and if weathering a few tweets of "zzzzzzzzzz" and "UGH, WE GET IT, YOU HATE WHITE PEOPLE" here and there is the price for being even marginally helpful in…

Incredible irony in the article, although the author doesn't stop to point it out directly:

I really love how un-effeminate they are, while doing classically effeminate movement extremely well. It's a wonderful sort of genderbending about what kind of movements are made for whom, and why we might think so. Could it be partly because gender performance is very different in Ukraine? (I have no idea if it is…

It's much like how the only genre in Hollywood to have lots of women is horror movies. If you count vampire demons as women.

Yes, the only genre where the media covers more women than men. Touching.

Trafficking is forced labor. Smuggling is bringing people into the country unlawfully, often with false papers. Exploiting undocumented workers because they have limited rights sometimes takes the form of trafficking, but not necessarily. All these activities are frequently combined. Salons and spas are more known…

Me too. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact at a less direct level. Especially when women get punished for acting too much like the men they grew up observing and assuming they were equal to.

It's really not just the far right, I'm afraid.

Which is obviously why drug companies are in business, to provide research for the world at a financial loss to themselves...

Yeah, what the hell was that?

You know men live alone as adults too. But it seems like domestic how-tos are still all targeted at women.

I've seen this video several times, and it fucking rocks. Every time I see it it makes my day.

Possible copyright infringement? The Bolshoi Ballet, one of the most famous ballet companies, is based in Moscow. Bolshoi means big in Russian.

What is up with the mermaid unitard / neck brace outfit? That is hideous.

Right? When I read the part about the "perfume section" I really lost the thread on how any person could be the wrong size for the store, unless they are a giant whose head keeps crashing into the ceiling and breaking the lights or something.

Naked yoga.

Really? It smacks of L.A. and the internet and Craigslist a lot more than "Persians," whatever you mean by that. (And I use the quotes in a normal way, not as satire of all of the above).

I think this article at Salon hits on a good point about the performance. http://www.salon.com/2013/08/26/mil…