I’m always a little weirded out when people refer to their partner as their “best friend.” As Dan Savage aptly put it, your best friend is the person you complain to about your partner.

I think you might actually be earning some feminist cred for sex positivity or something.

Ew, no. Speaking as a Canadian, I would lick Bieber’s buttcrack before I would share a ride to the airport with Harper. (Still doing a happy dance about the election - don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Steve-O.)

Another article quotes Corday as saying that (unlike Yelp) the platform is 100% opt in , users can delete objectionable content, and that you can deactivate your account. http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/…

From a statement by Corday:

Yeah, it would be great if we had an equivalent to “Comrade” or “Citizen.” If you say “Comrade” in English, you might be mistaken for a high school student who’s just discovered Marxism (like, um, me at 15). “Citizen” sounds pretty good though.

“Miss” grates on me much more than “ma’am,” for some reason. I know people use it because they don’t want to imply that you’re old or something, but I dislike the associations with marital status. It feels so 1950’s. Unfortunately there are few options for ways to formally address strangers in English.

Quit. I did several months ago, and I haven’t looked back.

Haters gonna hate. I would wear the shit out of this sweater.

I actually did this relatively recently. I told this guy I’d been hanging out with that I really liked him, because he seemed oblivious. (We are grown-ups, not in high-school, in case you’re wondering.) He was a bit dumbfounded and I said he didn’t have to respond if he didn’t know what to say.

Yes. I’m sorry I just made your day worse.

Aw, thanks

Aw, thanks

Not that I don’t believe they’re good shoes, but when I read the name “Chaste” I immediately thought, “the ballet flat that saves itself for marriage.”

Not that I don’t believe they’re good shoes, but when I read the name “Chaste” I immediately thought, “the ballet…

Does this mean there will be some kind of arms race? I mean, my vagina is sort of shaped like a missile silo. Maybe I should put more funding into nuclear period research.

1. I want to see a Portlandia episode about this.

I did two years of cooking apprenticeship, and wrote the exams (in Canada; not sure if it works that way in other countries). There were questions on both the first and second year exams about whether your employer is legally allowed to send you home without pay if you show up for work drunk or ridiculously hung over.…

One of my two best friends in high school was a guy. We were very close and had some great times that I still remember fondly. He was also condescending as fuck to me and regularly made me feel stupid, and I was too young at the time to recognize it and call bullshit. Most of the boys I hung out with were like that. I…

I’m going to bring up what I bring up every time someone comments about a prison sentence being too short for the crime. Think about what 12 years in prison would actually be like. Think about what things would be like if you’d gone to prison 12 years ago and you were just getting out now. If you live to be 84, that’s…

I think participation trophies are silly too. Yes, kids know they’re bullshit. But if I had had a participation trophy taken from me by my parents when I was a kid, I would have felt horrible and like I’d personally done something wrong, or that there was something wrong with me participating in whatever sport. Maybe…

What bugs me is that “bulking up” is something so many women feel like they have to avoid. Why would you be afraid of “looking strong” as well as being strong? It speaks volumes to me that the ideal for women seems to be to actually be strong while maintaining a willowy aesthetic.