Eh. I have to use a cross walk at a busy intersection daily and I always press the button when I walk up regardless of who is there. It only allows crossing if the button has been pressed and whenever I’ve assumed someone else has done it I end up waiting an extra round until I can walk. I assume nothing anymore. …

Eh, maybe it depends on the family dynamic. I was 100% unplanned and was conceived because my mom was taking antibiotics with her bc pills and she didn’t know that would render them ineffective. My parents were then forced to get married (they wore their prom outfits because they were broke and had just graduated…

Meh, chronic cheaters usually have 1 or more burner phones. Ive worked with several men who were cheating and they had a ‘work cell’ and ‘personal cell’. It’s actually how I found out my ex was cheating, his burner # was on a friends phone and I noticed the # was different than his normal number when I borrowed it…

This is something I’ve dealt with since I hit puberty. I’m tall (6'2) and have enormous boobs and a fairly curvy figure. Because of this, my body is constantly up for speculation and public commentary. I’ve had guys tell me I’m ‘not the kind of girl you take home to the parents’ and was broken up with because the…

I live in the Boston area and have already told my bf that if we decide to have kids, we’re moving. End of story. I have my own personal reasons for not wanting to raise kids in Boston, but a big part of that is the overall cost.

Same! When I was 19 and my boobs went from a 36a to a 36f in the span of a few months, fredericks was the only place I could buy bras that weren’t meant for nursing. Now it’s much easier to get cute bras (36j now) for fairly reasonable prices but 15 years ago??? Good luck.

The reason I have a bright pink toolbox is because the guys I worked with were making fun of ‘girly shit like pink’. So...I naturally bought a bright pink toolbox so they had to look at it EVERY SINGLE DAY next to their red/silver/black ones. My boss hated it too, they ended up putting an adendum in the employee…

I got in the habit of just calling it ‘stick’. My dad’s a mechanic and that’s just what he always called it. When I say manual now, all I get is ‘manual? Like the windows?’ and people think ‘standard’ means automatic.

Yep. And if you like to take a chance at auto auctions (if you can get a friend with a reseller license) you can get a SUPER DUPER good deal on a manual. I got my 2008 mazda3 hatch with less than 100k on it last year for 3k. It’s in spectacular condition (leather, heated seats, mechanically pristine) and when I…

Not only layoffs, but tying your financial future to another person is terrifying to me. I've seen way too many situations where a guy gets bored and decides to leave, meanwhile the woman is now caring for multiple children with very little, if any, income. Being out of the workforce for years isn't going to help.

I left a manual labor male dominated industry because I was harassed and treated like shit by my male coworkers and bosses. I was paid less but required to do more work with less mistakes (to ‘prove’ I belonged there) as compared to my coworkers. I was denied a raise and promotion because they felt our mostly male…

I actually grew up in the high desert of CA :). Definitely used to desert camping but this was something Different entirely.

I'm terrified of boob growage if I get pregnant... I'm already a 36J and I genuinely don't know if I'll stay sane going any bigger than that :(

A friend of mine who is very thin had a baby, gained 40 lbs and walked out of the hospital wearing her size 2 pre-pregnancy pants. Within 2 weeks you never would have guessed she was pregnant and her heavily tattooed midsection, ribs and sides didn’t look distorted at all. They just popped right back into place as if…

I went once, didn't see the amazingness that my burner friends went ON AND ON AND ON about for a solid 6 months afterwards. Ended up getting a weird rash, sunburned and it took me weeks to get my hair back to something resembling normal. Meh. I'll be going to Wasteland Weekend next year which sounds far more awesome.

My sister worked at a jewelry store for a while.... She said it was usually the man who pushed for more expensive rings, not the women. It's anecdotal of course, but she said she could sell a lot more if she subtly hinted about what his friends would think.

I was told not to wear a ring because it meant I was off limits and non fuckable. I belonged to someone else and that would be negative to a potential employer.

It’s absolutely harassment. I took my younger brother’s ex girlfriend to get her first exam and get on birth control and I went because she has a drunkard mom and nonexistant dad so I was basically the closest mother figure she had. We went to PP and there were TONS of protesters and she started bawling. It was her…

Why is it sad? My Mom, aunt and grandma all had skin cancer and I’m simply protecting myself.

I own and wear one and I’m a fair skinned Atheist white woman. Bought it from a store that sold middle Eastern clothing.