I once told someon who was 20+ years older than that I couldn’t date because I was looking for a relationship with someone close to my age with whom I could potentially start a family. Oh my God, the wounded entitled rage! He proceeded to barrage me with emails about how he could impregnate me well into old age. But I…

If you oppose my ideas for tax reform, or for entitlement reform, or whether the Dodd-Frank Act was a huge step forward in financial reform or an overreaction to the financial crisis, I will not accuse you of hatred. And, in fact, if you decide that the dogma of your church will not recognize a marriage because of…

Similar story, similar outcome (except no sexy friend came through) to I created a burner account for this’s story.

I got in a solid 30 seconds of “well helooooo, Tarzan” before the horrible niggling part of me wondered where Tarzan gets trousers.

The House Bunny...

You’re being weirdly pedantic about it. I was responding mostly to the first comment because a lot of people think that corsets somehow make your muscles atrophy and that simply isn’t true.

Because jez’s feminism only extends to women they personally like the look of.

Let’s see...Goth, Domme, Ren Faire enthusiast...Corsets are just a part of my life. I’ve never understood the tendency to corset shame. They’re not for everyone, but neither are stiletto heels or false eyelashes.

Pregnancy definitely does move shit around - I developed acute appendicitis when my son was 19 days old and it took the ER many excruciating hours to figure out what was wrong with me, because my appendix was not in its usual place. (Also I never run fevers, so I wasn’t presenting with normal symptoms anyway.) But…

Whatever a corset does to the body is completely reversible. Don’t expect medical information from 1885 to be accurate. Unless the wearer is an anatomist, I would take her statements with a grain of salt as well.

I can’t wear corsets, as cute as some of them are. I can’t breathe in them, my normal bp is 80/60 and likes to drop to 60/40 whenever I stand up, and they make me pass out. But you do you, girl.

Why isn't going to the gym considered body modification?

So.....no one verified whether what she said was true? Because this seems like the article is pointlessly tearing apart her hobby for the only reason that it looks weird. She didn't word it the best, but with 10 minutes of resea ch, you could find that she's right and modern corsets are fine. I just don't know why she…

I mean... during the end stages of my pregnancy, my uterus was pushing things up so far that I had constant, non-stop heartburn.

First off, nobody mentioned actual violence by a pastor or other religious leader. You did. And show me one place in America that this has happened without law enforcement getting involved. One.

Just turned 45. Is my advanced degree going to save me?!?

It’s great! When I finally realized my father will never be a father or even a friend or even show mild enthusiasm about me graduating my PhD program...I cut him for good. Best decision for my emotional well being ever!

As a guy, my response was generally “Nah, I got this one - how about you get “X”” where “X” was drinks after, the movie tickets, or whatever else we’d agreed on for the evening - especially since I was generally the one that asked for the date. I’d pay attention to the reaction from the girl as to if there’d be a…

And maybe a little bit of Spike from BtVS.

Yes please. I prefer slender muscled dudes myself. Big muscles are nice, but understated is better...