Frankly, anywhere the US Navy is. In all my years abroad surrounded by shirtless, inconsistent men, the U.S. Navy supplies the most polite, eager-to-please men with loads of disposable income. I think it's the effect living on a boat with a bunch of other dudes.

It’s called “grit” now. So it’s totally fine.

Idiots tend to stick racially ambiguous people into one broad category. It’s called “othering,” meaning they are different from us. For example, women from Brazil, Kenya, and India are all considered “exotic,” even though they don’t share many physical qualities.

Have you ever lived in a small town with frivolous problems? With the exception of one storyline, that’s the entire book. My eyes were watering from boredom during most of it but I powered through because I though something really interesting would happen. And, I suppose, the ending was pretty shocking...but not…

Yeah, okay. Done.

Dude. I agree with you. Go ahead and tell me to move, everyone else. I did it three years ago.

I 100% agree with this. I live and work in Cambodia (I originally came here to work for an NGO, but now own a bar and volunteer in a sewing workshop), and my biggest peeve about social enterprise is "pity marketing." It's a disservice for the people they're helping because it isolates ethical clothing into its own…

Quite the opposite. We own a bar in Cambodia because we were sick of the rat races in our respective homes.

I'm American, my husband is English, our son is being raised in Asia around both American and British (mostly Cambridgeshire) expats. He doesn't talk yet and I'd really like to know how this monster sounds.

Impossible. No one comes close to impersonating Queen Bey. Not even the wax figure at Madame Tussaud's.

Last week she was definitely in Cambodia. I know this because I live in Cambodia and everyone was flipping their shit.

How about children whose parent remarried someone they don't like? That could be a cause of emotional instability. NOT THAT I'M ONE OF THOSE KIDS OR ANYTHING

Someday, I hope the world is homogenized to avoid these sorts of encounters. I'm half Cambodian, and we sometimes talk about adopting a girl from Southeast Asia. My husband brought up that everyone will think we're a blended family because my and her skin colors will match and be completely different from my husband's…

Dude, yes. Everyone used to ask my father if I'm adopted because I'm about 10 shades of brown darker than his German/Swedish ancestry allows. Now that my son has his grandfather's complexion, eye color, and hair color, people immediately assume we're married and his grandson is our son. It's weird and any awkwardness…

Wait just one minute. I'm bi-racial and am usually mistaken for Latina or Filipino. I had sex with a white man and produced a white child with blue eyes and brown hair. I don't see the relevance of race here, and, using the same twisted logic as he uses, he should offer someone like me a bit more money for adding…

This is all much more complicated than just increasing the minimum wage. Here in Cambodia, the factories are ubiquitous and the jobs are coveted. I live in a migrant town, where people come to work from the rural provinces.

I'm a seamstress, and I have noticed over the years that people are flabbergasted when they see the circumferences of their waists/busts/hips/necks/etc in a straight line on a measuring tape. For example, men with a 32" waist are quite thin, but that's nearly a yard. It's just difficult for a lot of people to…

My story isn't good-humored and one of those "looking back, it's funny" tales, but maybe writing about it will be cathartic.

I would be more worried if they made their child sit through hours of agonizing hair processing. Play, young child! PLAY!

I think Christian Siriano deserves massive props for the five women he dressed (you credited him once). He's one of the few reality show stars who really "made it."