Yup. As someone who comes from a mixed-racial (is that a word?) family, it actually seems totally normal to me that family members inherit different combinations of physical characteristics — even to the point that they present as different races. Welcome to modern America, people.

dude, I *am* a cat, or at least my online persona (catsona? [ahh! too far!]) is.

haha, like you were worried everyone was having a big comment party without you?

Yeah, that might be the case for some commenters. But it just seemed to me, as I would scan the comments section, that having a star almost guaranteed people would comment, while light gray comments were ignored at a higher rate. I mean, I didn't do a study or anything, but that was just my impression from using this…

Oh no! That really disappoints me. Some of those articles were super duper interesting, and I've been hanging around, waiting for the conversation to be opened up on them.

To be honest, simply the fact that the stars are gone makes me prefer the new system. It always felt cliquish to me.

I agree. It's hard for me to get a general sense of what's going on, if you know what I mean, by quickly scanning through the comments section.

god, so weird! I felt like I was the only person in the world. (Yes, I'm dramatic.)

I am a student of not being an asshat, and I pretty much don't give a fuck what Christianity has to say about anything, at all.

Yeah, or even: what if two people want to get married but not have kids, making the whole discussion of parenting irrelevant?

It was mentioned down thread that this would be a great on-going feature, which I think is a FANTASTIC idea. I would love to hear the suggestions from other Jezzies - who inspires them, who teaches them, who are up-and-coming leaders. Also, I think would also help mitigate some of the concerns that this particular…

That's a fantastic suggestion. Maybe this can be an on-going project. I would love to hear who other Jezzies would suggest.

You know, this was beautiful.

Ok, you're right. I guess I just got confused by the wording in the article.

You mean Cynthia Ozick assumes there's a feminine subject matter, not Lindy, yeah?

Ahh! I love art deco! Nicely done.

Ha. I understand. If there's anyplace you should be free to vent, I suppose the internet is that place. (And yes, the questions that publishing companies add to the end of books are dumb.)

I've been in Ukraine about a year and a half, so I've been trying to follow the political climate, especially since the country seems to be at such a crossroads. It's really interesting for me to talk to some of the older Ukrainians here. A lot of them speak fondly of the Soviet Union, or they say that it wasn't any…

What was annoying you about the personal experiences? Maybe I'm just really nosy, but I like reading them.

I thought that the point by zerogspacecow is that there are more options than just "playing hard to get" and "being codependent." You can be eager to hang out with someone and have your own life at the same time.