Agree. I feel like my generation is casting wildly about for the next Helen Gurley Brown/Nora Ephron/3rd tier nominally committed feminist icon and everyone has failed the audition so far: Lena Dunham, Cat Marnell, Jenny Slate, literally everyone who has passed through this blog as a content-generator. Like, slow down…

Oh! Oh! Oh! Did you say Lena Dunham?!!!

Yeah, but the millennial octopuses aren’t buying houses in Octopolis because of avocado toast.

ANY chronic health condition is the worst. There are things you are unable to do, and it is often difficult to explain why to people– colleagues, casual acquaintances, even friends and family.

So an octopus can unscrew a jar from the inside. Big deal.

I learned about their intelligence in large part to a relative’s octopus, cutely named Molly. Molly used to escape her aquarium to the point that my relative kept a security system (‘security system’ being a broomstick with a bell nailed to the tip, which propped up against the basement’s door) set up, because she…

I fucking cried.

The gaslighted is too invested in their narrative and how well it works for them to ever invest in seeing your side of the story.

I’m sorry you are going through this, but glad that you are seeing his actions for what they are.

I’m sorry you’re going through that :( my now husband and I went through couples therapy when we were engaged. We realized we hit a wall when it came to communication, both of us shut down in different ways and one of the ways he shut down was by deflecting issues onto me (similar to gaslighting but not exactly the…

Do you think Vasilisa is just a bit too twee and good?

I cannot believe people like this. The bathroom is for pooping! Pooping on a desk? Not okay. Pooping in the conference room? Wrong! Behind a bush? Depends on the situation. In a bathroom? *Always* okay. This is the designated pooping location.

Once I was in the loo at the airport and I farted. A woman in another stall said loudly, “That’s disgusting! Who did that?”. I laughed so hard that I farted again and she declared, “I do not have to listen to this!” and stormed out.

My work is a delightful utopia. We have a gym at our facility and immediately outside of our gym area is a whole row of eight bathrooms. Each a single person bathroom with solid walls and a solid sound proof door on them. Each has a constant (quiet) running fan and a shower, a sink, a comfy loveseat and are fully…

So, theres a secret bathroom on my wing at work... it used to serve as a handicap bathroom when the unit was used as a patient area. When they turned it into an office area they never changed the lock BUT the admin and clinical staff were not given the key, were never told about it and just think it’s part of an old…

Bullshit. Plenty of water resistant phones with an exposed headphone jack.

99.7% of women.

I guess Samsung (and others) just have better engineers then?

Other water resistant phones have 3.5mm jacks.

Ah, let me be the first to say no! Huzzah it feels good.