I’m pretty sure the OP means “number of sexual partners”, if that clarifies it. ;)

Oh! Thanks for that info. I have friends who would fit that description, so good to know!

In my college, we had a traditionally black full-ride scholarship that dozens of students received every year, and they always brought the rewardees to campus in the spring for a carnival to entice them to come. While I was a student there, the college was forced to open the scholarship to applicants of all…

No matter how strongly you suspect someone is lying, the social contract dictates that you can’t say so, so you end up acting like you believe the lies just to be polite. And, meanwhile, you’re fully aware that you’re being manipulated and you resent it. [..] But, I don’t know, trying to get us to pity her feels like…

I once gave an “interview” where I just wrote a thing about myself and someone published it. A busy/lazy reporter at a laid-back publication might just have let her write her own bio. It really reads like her own language — her “raw talent” is “undeniable”, she’s a “rainbow”, there’s that weird swastika transition to…

She went to Howard on a full financial scholarship.

Go big or go home. She’s like the Dos Equis Man of compulsive lying.

“Coming from a trans-racial family that has hop-scotched to a variety of racial-tension areas, I have seen racial hatred in many forms,” she says.

So here’s a question: we may have seen Jon Snow get stabbed upwards of ten times, but do we actually see the life go out of his eyes? No. In the books and the show, we cut to black as he lies there, perfectly still, staring at the sky. Since that’s all we get, that’s all I will accept as truth until shown otherwise.

Steam would have been pouring out of my ears if I’d endured a conversation like that with someone I shared a home with. >:(

YES! The people comparing this to transgender issues are missing that fundamental part of it. If someone identifies as female, great, welcome, enjoy it. And if you’re lucky enough to be able to pass in the way you want, no one should judge you for that, and you might even experience sexism because of it. But if a…

I think you should talk about it. Not only because of the religious persecution angle, but because dealing with trolls and bullies is something they’ll all face sooner or later. You could inadvertently help a teen deal with depression, slut-shaming, body image, racism, homophobia, etc. It’s so hard as a kid to…

Amy Schumer’s comedy is a very, very thin slice of a very, very big pie of “what women say to each other when men aren’t around.” But generally speaking, there are a lot of topics women get into when men aren’t present. These include conversations about periods, body hair removal, weird moles, period farts,…

I love love love baby goats, but I had a negative reaction to this and I couldn’t figure out why. Then I realized I was mostly reacting negatively to the goat in the little-boy uniform. Then I realized why:

All the stars in the universe.

Unfortunately I think that’s exactly what’s going on. :(

I read a fascinating take on this a few years ago. The boiled down version is this: (1) Some people believe that intelligence is fixed: you’re smart or dumb, and it’s an innate trait that can’t be changed. Other people believe that intelligence can be improved through hard work. (2) Over time, everyone experiences a…

I feel like this is an untapped market and I am 100% in support of tapping it.

A Jewish friend once explained to me that the name of “G-d” is sacred, so in much the same way you’ll hear Christians saying it’s a sin to take the Lord’s name in vain (as in, cursing “Jesus Christ!” when you stub your toe), for Jews the written name of God can’t be taken in vain. This means you can’t just throw out a…

What’s weird about this is the sidestepping of the central moral question.