Software development is engineering of a different type where your laboratory, workshop, proving ground, and production platform are all virtual.

Kudo and the Two Strings.

That’s all missing the point of the article. Aimee didn’t chose it. Neither did I. The problem isn’t with “different choices” - the problem is with society acknowledging that sometimes it is not a choice. That people need to stop the “it will happen” talk and just give us space to talk about how we feel with something…

I get the “lower your standards” one ALL the fucking time from my female friends! It makes me so mad! What the heck, so wanting a man who respects me as a human being and is willing to have a truly equal partnership is having “too high standards”? Well then, I most DEFINITELY prefer to be alone forever vs. being with…

There comes a time in every longterm single persons reality, if you have been single for a while, you may be alone until you die. Its almost like a grieving process of losing someone you never had. Its not depression as much as grieving and accepting. It passes and in the end, you may be a lot happier after the…

God, I feel all of this. I did eventually marry, but that decade where I didn’t have anyone yet every woman I knew bounced from relationship to relationship with less than a month in between, each time expecting me to be the emotional support for them? And you’re just sitting there wondering when you are going to get…

The lengthy “you can do it if you try these things!!!” responses further down the thread manage to accomplish the neat trick of missing this essay’s point and underlining and bolding why it needed to be written.