Yeah I’m confused. She’s a strong actress, and a super smart, all around badass human. What’s the issue?

This is so important. I’m a relatively skinny person, but my weight has still fluctuated and the changes relative to the body I’m used to are sometimes hard to deal with for me. I’ve never once had someone comment on my weight in a way that didn’t leave me feeling worse about myself. My mom loves to ask if I’ve “put…

The people posting under the guise of concern for others’ health are just absurd. You’re dead on about them only caring about fat women specifically, and it’s absolutely illogical that they’ve chosen this one specific health issue to be concerned about. They don’t sit around trolling pictures of people holding…

I can’t bring myself to watch it, but from the description and the frame of the video I can see, I kind of think that’s the point. It’s totally in line with our culture’s penchant for seeing women in degrading, sexualized situations. There are plenty of ways to make people eat bugs that don’t involve dick shaped…

That was the point where I began to question if this whole article was a joke. Evidently, it is not.

Yup. I was convinced this was another “which dress are you” situation, in which it didn’t matter what you chose. It seems feasible in this situation, since these dudes are basically interchangeable versions of my worst nightmare.

Midday, but that rarely works out because of the whole job situation. It sort of seems like the options are realistically limited to before vs. after work, in which case after work obviously wins. I like my sex fully conscious.

Yup. I sometimes get really excited because it seems like someone is interested in one of the billion topics I’m super into, but I see their eyes glaze over pretty fast once I actually delve into things.

I’m actually in a rather rigorous honors program and it has been pretty nice for connecting me to other motivated students. Unfortunately, the program is really small (~20 students), so I’ve sort of met everyone and haven’t had any luck finding someone I really click with. Everyone’s just enough younger than I am that…

My university gives the grad students free beer, so there must be some time for socializing.

He was pretty competitive, which was sort of fun because I am too. The issue was more like excessive rumination to the point of solipsism. I totally understand having too many feelings and overthinking everything, but I guess he hadn’t quite figured out how to function in relationships while doing that. I think I did…

I’ve heard it’s a bad idea to include it on resumes? Have you run into issues with that?

I’m a couple years away from grad school but sort of have this hope in the back of my mind that it will be an oasis of super smart, like-minded people and I’ll find tons of friends and my perfect romantic match and be super satisfied. Hopefully I won’t have to wait that long. I hope it works out for you!

I’m getting pretty concerned that I’m not going to find a romantic partner on my level. It just seems statistically improbable that I’ll find someone as smart as me who is also compatible in the other important ways. But I’ve learned through past relationships that I absolutely can’t deal with lack of intellectual…

I’ve realized that I have a lot of engaging social interactions throughout the day, and a lot of them are even intellectually engaging. It just feels like I don’t have any really close friends who I can really get into important life things with on the intellectual level that I want to. It’s taken me awhile to figure…

Yeah I really appreciate my less intellectual friends—they’re a fantastic bunch to party/adventure with and for just a silly good time. I just really wish I had one or two really close friends who lived nearby who could do all the stupid over-analyzing with me. I’m in school, but I’m a non-traditional student and am…

I actually like that picture better than the more boring image I had in my head of the sort of people I’d likely encounter. Another commenter said most active members ran a bit old, which I guess could still lead to some interesting friendships, though I would really like to meet at least a few people closer to my…

Yup, I feel like I’m constantly dumbing myself down around most people and it’s tiring and disheartening. It’s a bit reassuring to hear that you met a few reasonably good people through Mensa, maybe I will give it a shot. Did you go to general meetings of some sort, or were they specific to a particular interest of…

Ugh dating is a huge issue for me at the moment. I finally found someone who was actually on my level and dated for a brief period of time, but it didn’t work out due to some issues of his that are ironically 100% related to him being ridiculously smart. I’m back to feeling like I’m going to have to settle for dating…

Yeah I mean, I’m a student at a pretty prestigious school so I’m surrounded by moderately smart people a lot of the time, but I’m a bit older than all the other undergrads and haven’t made any super close friendships. And while my peers are closer to being on my level than people I generally interact with in the…