As a decent, regular, someone who only just started commenting on online forums and is only just learning how to leave snark right where I find it, do not take asinine comments to heart and don't bother responding. Your comment was reasonable, you seem reasonable and we can only hope to find the humanity we give…

*Fanning myself*

Preach! At 26?! I had you pegged, JediSage.

Getting fired in December, from a dream job with a hell on earth atmosphere with a dash of racism and soul killing drama thrown in, was the best thing to happen to me. I only wish I'd read your post before the axe for some grounding, reduction in palpitation type therapy.

This is a really insightful, humourous post, which I happened upon after clicking on your reply. I bet you're young but you sound like a JediSage.

Ha! But we all look the same, so he should have confusedly recognized more? Non?

View this as being lucky by default; perfumes are toxins in small doses. Essential oils are The Business —just make sure the oils are correctly expressed (steam, cold, etc. depending on plant) and pure (not mixed with anything else eg. alcohol).

100% How is it that people don't see this? These days, it's rather difficult to peg someone as thoroughly left, moderate, etc. - too much emphasis is placed on these labels.

Laughed out loud!

I sympathize, citizen. Had a similarly enchanting experience in CapeCod last summer. Mentally kicked myself for not foregoing a menu item that required a disclaimer next to the plate description. Essentially, it read: eat this and run the risk of shitting uncontrollably in your verynearfuture. Never. Again.

Nailed it: 'the wrong kind' and 'empowered victimhood'. The implication being that hypersexualized somehow equates with being powerful or in control or free. That kind of thinking requires active dissonance. Warning: extreme example ahead...Where before it might have been humiliating to fellate a frat house or…

Cosign. I would proffer that 'feminism' was coopted some (indeterminate) time ago. And although my teenage self is appalled, my sensibilities are offended by the oversexedness of popular females in culture, full stop.

Actually, yes. Spot on.

I shared this article on FB and I am commenting because even though I am childless (I'm 33 so I better hop to it), I am SuPER Passionate about the whole village-raising-the-child thing. I'm even trying to write a novel about it- I'm that concerned as a childless world citizen.

100%^^

How enlightening. #Bookmarked. Now I need an actual job outside of my non paying passion projects.

You know Vikrum, I feel you on this >>it's as much about making boys feel 'allowed' and stopping girls feeling 'obliged' to like to bake.

As a lady cook, and importantly, a Lover of Food, yes. ^^

This is a sports blog? Sheez. I wouldn't be here if I knew THat.

Black and furiously LOVING ^^ this. Also, I'm going back to my (natural) hair and bracing for the unseen but very real Nervous Hate from the Working World when I reenter it.