"it was always a major turn off when the list of "don't message me if" dragged on and on. I'd read some profiles that in which the "don't bother if " part was the longest and most detailed part of the profile!"

"And my pregnancy is no big deal to the staff at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, which regularly treats women over 50."

That really was unkind. Not everyone has a backyard to bury their pets in when they die. That doesn't mean they treated their pet like "garbage" in choosing to cremate them.

I feel you. I tried okcupid last year. As a fat, black nearly 40 year old woman, it was...depressing. The feeling of invisibility (except to men who were disgusting and rude) was awful. Then in October I met the guy I'm going out with now—not on okcupid. Incredibly, he 1)is around my age (he's two years younger, big…

Earplugs. Always, always bring earplugs because you don't know what will happen. Standard in my carry on bag (along with cut up vegetables/dip, sandwich, a piece of fruit, notebook, things to read, ipod, Clorox wipes for the tray table/arm rests, hand wipes ) Yes, I always pack as though I'm going on an arctic…

People can mock you all they like; I'm on the same bench. Should I ever want a diamond ring, the diamond will be one of those created in a lab.

Ah, I see. I misread, I thought it said the pictures WERE selfies. My mistake.

Think about how Renisha McBride's mother is feeling, having lost her child. Maybe that will help you get over feeling sorry for the man who killed her for no reason at all.

"But the site fired back that because some of the pictures weren't selfies, she didn't own copyright."

I was just thinking about this earlier this morning, but in reference to the Violent Acrez thing not this. In that situation, you had the same reaction—all of these scumbags from Reddit complaining about how Adrian Chen had violated that creeps' first amendment rights. What you say here is exactly what I thought then.…

Lady, you are my newest hero. Or should that be heroine?

"I'm talent too and I produce and will be in some upcoming projects as well but ushers sat me there."

Jeez, people are awful sometimes. I'm sorry you've got them living across from you.

This is interesting-it might be one of those situations where what people imagine is worse than what actually happened. When you said you'd done things you're ashamed of to feed your addiction, that's immediately where my mind went. I assumed you were talking about prostitution.

Ouch. Trying to wrap my head around that has given me a headache. This woman across the hall is black, right? And she's married. To someone who says "men don't want to date black women." But he presumably dated a black woman. Because he's married to a woman who is, in fact, black? I'm sorry, I just am trying to…

No, actually it's not okay. Yes, it was a religious symbol for many years before Hitler used it. But really—how ignorant do you have to be today to not know that that symbol has been desecrated and is no longer usable? Are you telling me that people in Taiwan, for example, don't know about the Holocaust? I find that…

Get psychiatric help at 17, don't wait until you are 19. So much could have been avoided, and so much would have been different if I had done this. :-(

"6) And finally, rebelling is so not worth it. Too much insanity at such a young age will make college feel tame... and that is a bad, bad thing."

Ah, that makes sense. I didn't think about specific circumstances where it might be preferable. Also, I'm 40—things may have been a little different when I was growing up, back when trilobites still scuttled across the earth.

I'm wondering how old you are? This isn't a slam against your for age, it's just that I suspect I'm older, because things were very different when I was growing up. No one would have dreamed of giving a 7 year old a relaxer. We (black girls) wore our hair natural, in a ponytail, braids, afro puffs, etc. until about…