Jumping on the bandwagon to say I worked with a couple of female computer science engineers, one of whom was a former cheerleader and another of whom was a salsa dancer. They were both regarded as among the smartest people in our company and everyone thought it was awesome that they had these extracurricular interests…

This. And it's not even patients needing expensive treatments. It's patients needing treatments that are far, far cheaper for the exact same item/service in other countries, because those governments watch the check and put a big OH HELL NO stamp on overpriced healthcare. Here, the "free market" says the hospital can…

I'd just repeatedly pretend that they were asking serious questions.

Why do these not have 5,000 more stars? I looooooooooove them.

Scrolled endlessly through the comments looking for other people who thought that paragraph was fucked up. Thank you.

Amen. "Sarcastic sense of humor" and "somewhat cynical world view" can both fuck right the fuck off. I'd rather date an actual golden retriever than listen to you explain how you're too honest to be kind and too smart to be happy.

I think Jezzies know that there's no real solution to the problem of men beings creeps online. That's why new websites claiming to have the solution are treated with such derision - not because they should be solving the problem another way, but because bad male behavior online can't be solved with an app.

Jesus, those people. Yep. Obviously the founding fathers looked into the future with their crystal ball, saw the invention of the automobile and the internet, and consciously decided not to include either in the Constitution. They also got it completely right on the first try and absolutely no one should ever try to…

I know someone who likes to go into the woods with his buddies and shoot a tree until it falls over. Automatics are apparently better suited to this type of endeavor. Aside from that, the only practical use I can think of is a stockpile for the zombie apocalypse.

Sadly, I think you're way overestimating their concern for women.

You're welcome! You can do it, you really can. Best of luck!

Glad to hear it! Like I said, so far it hasn't backfired on me - and several guys have written back just to say, "Thanks for letting me know," so I think it's appreciated more often than not.

Any time! Setting realistic goals is the only thing that keeps me from going insane while writing, but that's because I'm a perfectionist and I expect to finish a flawless first draft in less than a year. Then I start writing, and after two months I've only got 20 halfway decent pages, and I think I've failed. I…

1) NaNoWriMo. Every November. Free community support. 50,000 words of a first draft in a single month. Plenty of time to plan/think about it.

Amy Webb has a TED talk on online dating that's definitely worth 18 minutes of your time on a Saturday night. Having a lot of messages is good, but having a clear set of rules for how you plan to filter them is the next step.

I can't believe revealing people cheating is ever bad. [...] the person being cheated on always deserves to know and have the choice to leave the relationship.

White people don't "riot", they "celebrate".

Fun story: I had to give a commencement speech in 8th grade and the coordinator lost the printout just as we were walking onstage. I took a blank piece of paper to the podium and stared at it while trying to remember as much of my speech as I could. Towards the end I blanked on everything and abruptly said "Thank…

I'm with you like 99.999%. Just maybe don't generalize the entire African continent as needing our help. There are large chunks of it that just want our tourist dollars and don't want, need, or expect more than that. "Fighting Boko Haram and Ebola" might be better substituted there.

Genuine LOL. Well played. Well fucking played indeed.