Damn lucky! Hang on to it, because that sounds like an awesome place to work.

> if I watched some hungover dude drag himself to 7-11 and then cook eggs in a movie, I'd be like "what the fuck is this?"

Ah, the "not all men" mindfuck. Top pick for all self-involved princesses.

That's a great analogy! I'm borrowing it.

Easy solution: Take mass transit for a month. That oughta do ya!

We don't only think all men want only to fuck us! It's just that it's hard to tell the nice dudes coming out of nowhere to tell you what they think of your attractiveness from the horrible dudes coming out of nowhere to tell you what they think of your attractiveness when you're only one sentence in.

I do say "Thank you" to compliments! Unfortunately, most of the shit women hear from strangers in public isn't a compliment, unless I missed an Emily Post column about how a compliment should be given over and over again at an increasingly loud volume until the recipient visibly responds.

... or C) a world where we keep the cruisey flattery to venues where flirting is appropriate and expected? And recognize that doing it elsewhere is super context-dependent and makes for a suuuuper low success rate, so don't get grouchy if it doesn't work?

Yes. Pretty intimately, actually - my family took in dozens of foster children during my childhood, and plenty were told they were accidents.

Well, it's not. I've had them break a few ways, including ripping clean in two just about the rolled part - that's the most common. I had a three-year relationship where we broke one a month for a summer, even when we bought some from a different batch and switched up brands, and it was incredibly stressful and…

Condoms slip and break, too many guys whine (and whine, and WHINE) about them, they don't do a damn thing for the non-contraceptive reasons people take birth control, and you have to keep them in stock, which takes planning and ain't cheap when you're using them as a daily form of birth control, even when you buy them…

So much "just quit" career advice from people who I'm sure *never* took a shit job in a field they care about, hoping to do a great fucking job of it even though it wasn't necessarily what they'd choose for themselves, and making the best of it so they can pay the bills and keep the lights on and not have to start…

"Don't be a condescending dick."

I think a "conversation about difference about opinion" was exactly what was happening.

"Slaughtered"? A handful of people saying "Nope" and politely reminding you of the power dynamics in play and referring you back to the text is "slaughtered"? Aw, bunny, never go to Reddit.

> or your day to twirl around with mason jars full of locally distilled whisky while fiddle music plays

Hot DAMN, but we NorCal folks care hard about that.

That's specifically a SoCal thing, not a general Cali thing.

No amount of porn would make guys say the lascivious, creepy and threatening shit I heard as a preteen that came my way from grown-ass men nearly 20 years ago. I don't think porn's creating more street harassment; I think it's that women are talking about it loud enough that guys are starting to notice.