My experience has been that every gay couple I know that's getting married has opted for "mangagement" rings, whereas the straight women I know tend to be either apathetic towards the issue or actively do not want one.

I suppose I just can't accept that sort of libertarian reasoning. Individually it works for her (I would still argue against that, but that's irrelevant), but that doesn't give the author the right to make blanket statements like the one I brought up that seem to correlate female sexuality with exhibitionism as a…

I don't exactly understand how participation in porn is being equated to female sexuality in the opening of this story. It seems extremely counter-intuitive to goals of female empowerment and liberation. That female sexuality can be compared to the transaction of having sex on camera for money.

But this kind of modeling is not about looking beautiful, it's about looking striking. Which obviously this is.

Wow, I really relate to your experience. My parents also drilled the, "we're poor" thing into my head as a kid, but it was mostly due to my father stealing family funds to support his mistresses, leaving our family with almost nothing (we had unfinished cement floors, and no heating for most of my life). I never had…

Another thing that I really like their emphasis on unisex clothes. A lot of their most popular styles are unisex. Their kids' clothes in particular are almost all unisex.

I do. They're decent quality basics for a decent price. I'm also very petite, and AA's clothes are one of the few mid-tier brands that don't overwhelm me (Uniqlo's clothes, for example, become huge sacks on my small frame). I don't like the advertising, or the company culture, but the clothes are really inoffensive…