I clicked on the link and immediately went, "Ooh!" so that's a good sign. And they're affordable! I'm not a girly girl, so these are perfect. Are they sold in stores anywhere?

Who wants to help me pick out a new winter coat? I live in DC, so it needs to work for "normal" winter - i.e. the coldest it will get here is 0 (I see you polar vortex, you snuck up on me once but never again), but mostly it's gonna hang out in the 20s and 30s and rain/snow at unpredictable intervals.

Exactly! I walk around deliberately avoiding eye contact with strangers because I don't want to encourage catcallers. I have no idea what a guy looks like when he's talking to me on the street because I am trying to pretend I can't hear/see him.

I was all, "I'm an artist! There must be a muse inside me. Please tell me your sordid tale, goddess-trapped-inside-me, and I will write it into a novel and we will be famous together." Still waiting...

I'm not sure I have the right phrasing, but I want to point out yours. You talk about your husband having specific sexual needs involving you. It's not okay that his sexual needs are trumping yours and resulting in you having sex that makes you miserable; why is it your responsibility to be so unhappy rather than his…

Another winner got bumped out of the grays, but had to nudge EGR for it. So, nudge, nudge! You can do it!

No, not just sharp. Almost too sharp. Look for language that indicates that it's a blade so sharp it can cut through reality. Again, a merely sharp blade could do the job just as well. But, again, how would you know how totally awesome the weapon was and, by extension, the character wielding it.

Yep, loved that one too!

That and Eternal Enemy were my favorites. My takeaways from The Immortal were (1) I should try to get to Greece for a vacation and find a cute boy to seduce/save from becoming a sacrifice and (2) all my nerdy obsessing over Greek mythology will totally pay off if I turn out to be a reincarnated goddess.

Ooh, nice, very nice. I second all of these (except Stromae, who I've never heard of and am off to investigate now). In exchange I give you Anita Tijoux's Somos Sur, which is my "hit your stride" jam of choice.

Please understand that every single time women try to have a conversation about street harassment, some guy on the Internet asks the same question you just asked. Every single time. Most of us are damn tired of answering it over and over and over again, so if you wonder why the responses are so angry that you feel the…

"Street harassment" is a particular technique by which men in public places make women in public places feel uncomfortable. That is the terminology. It's not really important whether you agree that the proper word was chosen. You know this. Be better.

Super-duper-duper awful. :( I'd be a wreck. Can you get him on video so at least you have evidence in case you need it?

I figured we were on the same page. I've confronted men about harassment and they've actually used the response, "You're a beautiful woman, how's a man supposed to see you and not say something?" which is what prompted me to bring it up. Thanks for taking it in stride and proving me right re: your awesomeness.

What was it about me being a woman that made that social interaction OK?

I read this and it triggered a cascade of GIF images in my mind of people throwing shit, pushing shit off desks, spontaneously combusting, and ejecting themselves from the planet in a hail of Nope Nope Nopes. Who the everloving fuck grabs a total stranger in the middle of the street?!

Definitely real life. I get kissy noises and car horns almost incessantly, way more than complete words or sentences. Worst was while I lived in Chile - I averaged one kissy noise per city block. But I get them here in the States too. Guys tend to do it as they pass me on the street, kind of under their breath,…

I like this comment so much I'm hesitant to write this, but you seem like an awesome person so I'll make one small tweak. That last line - "If you can't resist" - please don't give anyone this out. If you can't resist, learn to resist.

I read Jez all the time and yeah, the comments are full of badass women describing the brilliant verbal takedowns and/or expert martial arts moves women have used to get away from harassers. I always suspect that some of those stories are 100% true, some are 100% fabricated, and a fair chunk in the middle are somewhat…

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew.