At least your local theater has four screens?

They’re both dark-haired white women with British (I think) accents. Their techniques (positive reinforcement) are even similar. It’s a totally fair thing to confuse.

In my town we can either vote by mail or drive to the county seat to vote. You don’t get a sticker if you vote by mail. I chose the option with the sticker. 

Can confirm: Those things can fly*, and if you turn on the lights, they don’t scatter and hide under the stove. They run at you. One time the security guy sprayed pepper spray on one. It had no noticeable effect.

*I managed to spend several years living in South Carolina without actually seeing one fly, which…

I think you could argue that the “tamer” middle school lists are a way of grooming the next generation to participate in rape culture. I haven’t thought this argument through, but at least it seems like a conversation you could have.

(It still wouldn’t excuse the behavior of the Harvard men’s soccer team, of course.)

There is a difference between middle school students and adults, definitely.

Even if we were talking about adult women doing the exact same thing as their male counterparts in this instance, “women do it, too” does not make something okay. (In fact, if it’s part of rape culture, it shouldn’t suprise anyone that women…

And, of course, the really cynical and accurate answer is: You put in your ad that you are looking for actors of any race. You then proceed to only actually hire the people of the race you want.

It’s not that difficult to do this without leaving a really obvious paper trail. So the fact that they don’t even bother to…

As far as I can tell, they are free to look for actors who have a certain look. And other people are also free to criticize them for it.

The other option is just to wait until you’re old enough that she has given up hope. Parents of older couples are always way more relaxed about this stuff.

But if you’ve already got the groom lined up, you might not want to wait that long!

Our culture is such that basically all women feel terrible about our bodies all the time, and this does indeed affect super-skinny women, too. And in fact some of the practical obstacles are quite similar. For example, many smaller department stores have a lower limit to the sizes they stock as well as an upper limit.

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I have this problem as well - I live in a pretty rural area and I don’t have a lot of stores to choose from that even attempt to stock anything smaller than a 4. But ordering online is largely useless because size information is inadequate.

What’s really stupid is that everyone looks their best in clothes that fit…

Cuts are part of it - they redesigned their Merona line of shirts so that the fit is supposed to be looser. (At one point I got my hands on one of the new style and one of the old style, in the same size, and the new one looked like it was a mislabeled larger size.)

But Target’s women’s sizes have generally been…

For extra stupid, I swear their women’s sizes are creeping bigger. I used to consistently wear a small at Target, and now often XS shirts and dresses are too big for me. I have not shrunk.

Plus there was the incident with the dead mouse found inside a bunch of bananas sold at Meijer’s (I saw it - this is not one of those friend-of-a-friend’s-second-cousin’s-boyfriend stories). I’m pretty sure no one in my family has entered a Meijer’s store since then.

Start telling her you plan to elope. Be really, really serious about it. Explain that you plan to use the money to pay for an awesome honeymoon instead.

By the time you actually do plan a wedding, she’ll be so happy you’re not eloping you’ll be able to do whatever you want. Or, alternately, you can always actually…

The indigenous African languages were deliberately marginalized under apartheid. (For example, at one point schools were legally required to teach in Afrikaans, which few teachers and fewer students actually spoke.) Making all of those languages official languages was both an important symbolic move for the new…

Coughing into an open hand (or both open hands) is at least theoretically more effective than coughing into a closed fist. More surface area.

You think 2 is confusing? South Africa has 11 official languages. That’s eleven.

I thought the photo chosen for this article was also even more apt than usual.

There’s no “if”. Lots of people are actively looking for an excuse not to vote for [any woman ever].