I grew up in a small town in PA and I can see some of the similarities. It's souped-up, but still familiar. The biggest thing I would note is that Pawnee seems to be more the size of an entire county, rather than a town, based on how much stuff there is to do.

It's not impossible—Go Fug Yourself writes about clothing with shaming women's bodies all the time!

Lolz, 300 sandwiches =/= love.

Hey—questions about intersectionality ahead!

Oh this is absolutely the way my SO and I talk to each other when we are having disagreement. I don't really see the problem? It helps me express how I'm feeling without directly implying blame. Example: "I feel like you don't realize how much stress I'm under" vs. "You don't understand the stress I'm under." The…

Oh, absolutely. I'm working to get into medical school now, and it's terrifying to realize that future doctors, with all the power they hold, are just people. But god, you'd think they'd find a way to weed out the abusers (seriously, this guy was horrible).

I know someone currently enrolled in medical school who gave his girlfriend an eating disorder thanks to his constant verbal abuse. What the hell.

Oh Ann, you beautiful tropical fish. I'm going through a rough time and I'm re-watching season 3. I'll be sad to see them go—I hope the show ends on a happy high note rather than drag along (like Scrubs).

Eh, I still think the way she wrote about her own beauty was a little ridiculous and purple-prose-y. I'd laugh at a rocket scientist that described his intelligence thusly, and I think the advice-giver would also say, "Okay, get over yourself."

Not ragging on the woman for knowing she's attractive, more about how she finds herself so beautiful that she gets the tinglies while gazing into a mirror. That's a hilarious amount of vanity.

I understand what you're saying, but it can be extremely embarrassing to ask for help/an extension when there are personal family circumstances involved. In undergrad, my dad had an alcoholic relapse the day before I was supposed to go back to school for the last half of term. It was a traumatizing experience that…

For everyone talking about how this is a problem of privilege: yes, it totally is. However it's still a super important thing to think about when you consider that people with privilege (due to lack of upward mobility) are very likely to stay that way throughout their lives. If we can raise privileged children that…

When I was reading this article, I couldn't help but think of A. (the primary woman interviewed) as, well, a jerk.

I starting making a list just out of curiosity...good god, do those fill up fast. 40 seats on my side of the family (up to 1st cousins, which I would be in big trouble if I didn't do).

I watched a video today on Youtube called "Shit Guys say to Guys who say shit to Girls." It was basically a bunch of dudes saying things like:

Absolutely. I think part of what messed me up about sex for a while was prude-shaming. I was desperate to lose my virginity by college (look at how that turned out) so I could fit in with my HS friends. But all of a sudden in college, I was meeting girls who were virgins and it wasn't this huge, terrible, thing, just…

I thought I was the only one who did that. For me, I didn't realize it wasn't okay until I had a real sex partner and I thought, "Hmmm...when I say this hurts and I want to stop, I just get listened to. Why does that feel so unusual?"

I wish we could take virginity off there. Virginity is such a loaded term, and it feels very exclusive for people who aren't straight or (in my case) had a non-consensual first experience. This is just a personal thing—I always cringe when I have to think about losing virginity as a milestone (even on stupid TV shows…

It's like people don't realize that long hair/short hair is just a cut, not some inherent gender dimorphism.

Is everyone thinking it? Wendy Davis for president in the next couple cycles????