It's just frustrating that male is the standard, when more than half the population is female (not at birth perhaps, but later in life).

"*Don't talk to me about the birth of Christ. I'm an atheist and this season of celebration pre-dates the imposition of your prophet's birth on it."

I agree, it is not biology (unlike what the John Waynes in the world like to think). Men teach their sons to be macho a-holes and the legacy continues.

Good to hear that people are thinking about gender, as in this article, but the tone is excusing and sympathetic to school shooters. Apparently men, like the guy who wrote this article, have more empathy for school shooters than they do victims (especially female victims of any male-perpetrated crime). People love…

Yes yes yes. And I am so sick of trying to politely point out inequalities and injustices and dance around topics, lest I be called a nasty name. So many things are ignored. Why are men so ridiculously unempathetic and unable to see another person's perspective?

Where did you get this? I have researched this and it is so not true for most weddings in destination type locations.

Oh come on, like the author said, people really don't expect people to attend their destination weddings and rarely care if they don't. Any disappointment was faked for the sake of the person who declined.

Who said this is proper? (Who makes these Rules?) MY rule is that if I don't attend, no gift is necessary, unless I am very close to the bride/groom.

Amen. I wish I had done the destination thing rather than have 90 people, 60 of whom were indifferent and bored. (At best, most wedding guests are mildly pleased to have dinner and an open bar for the price of a wedding gift.) Plus I barely had time to speak with 80% of the people at my wedding, what was the point?…

Freakin' love McCarthy. There is no female celebrity as refreshingly, wonderfully honest and hilarious as her.

I agree, much of the midwest is bad, just as bad as the south. I was born there, I know (thankfully escaped to New England later in life). In addition to Ohio, Pennsylvania is also bad bad bad.

Right, federal property. Those bases and all related personnel and equipment belong to the federal gov't, not to these states.

People love to hate rich, white, straight (particularly blond) women. In fact, feminists like to do it even more than others, since it seems to punch holes in their "cool" cards. I'm a feminist of course, but I see a distinct white/straight girl hostility among some feminist groups and it annoys the sh** out of me. …

People say this over and over, but I have noticed that my formula fed (past 2 weeks) three children consistently got sick less in their first year than my militant breastfeeder friends' babies. This is anecdotal evidence of course, but I am very suspicious of the moms who preach about this. They usually have the…

I love it when ignorant people declare someone's comment "disgustingly false" without even knowing what they're talking about. In 2010, after white men (100%) and white women (80.5% of white men's), black men had the highest median income (74.5% of white men's). http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0882775.h…

Oh come on, you know oeffoff has a point - married women do the lion's share of domestic and child care work. Married men benefit hugely from this, whether their wives work or not.

This is SO not true anymore. Most professional women I know who date don't expect this, esp. those who have decent salaries.

He wasn't even thinking. Everyone is guilty of this, but I think straight white guys are the least empathetic, see-it-from-another-perspective group of people in the U.S. I have witnessed so many "aha" moments from guys I know when I point out something that seems obvious. Most aren't bad or evil, just…

No, white women don't benefit, unless they're married to these white men, plan to be forever, and also have no problem with the fact they their spouses, not they, earn the big $$. Single and divorced white women don't make much more than black men of same education/employment levels.

I did not say that incontinence is related to looseness, but only that it is a common occurrence after vaginal childbirth. Vaginal looseness is another potential effect, esp. after many deliveries. The vagina does bounce back, but you can certainly detect a difference in the elasticity between a woman who has given…