"...but as they got older, their lives became increasingly reclusive and strange. Neither of them ever married or had children or even pets. As they grew up, the identical twins withdrew socially and rarely left their home."

This is a huge peeve of mine. People usually mean to say leery or wary and then they say weary and sound stupid. Ugh.

I have a whole elaborate plan worked out (philanthropy, family estate planning, travel, and real estate), involving several trusts, a team of lawyers and a security detail. Not much would change if I was eighty-one.

Me too, exactly, and on top of that, every single person I knew when I opted out was a high-achieving high earner. I still get a lot of grief about the fact that I work to live and just scrape by: Oh, you're so smart, you could do anything, don't you want to do something that matters? Well, yeah, and I do have some…

Wow, what do you do?! I'd love to find a gig that paid even 60K at 40 hours a week. Unfortunately, everything seems to be work/life balance for 20-30K or else kill yourself for 80 plus. So far, I've opted for the former, and I'm relatively happy. But my parents aren't. Then again, if I opted for the latter, they'd…

Well, you know, PhDs and medical doctors and other experts in fields like psychology and criminology have been studying this for decades, interviewing rapists, hooking them up to machines to monitor brain activity, publishing papers and books, debating it at conferences and so on and so forth, but if you're not buyin'…

No, it was intended more as an "I agree, and furthermore...!" sort of thing. The non-consent is awful, obviously, as you pointed out, but I also dislike the idea that women are put in a position to constantly have to respond to this garbage in the first place. I was initially going to respond to the OP, actually, but…

I was just trying to agree with you, that's all.

I didn't think you were saying that! I've actually found Brazil to be the least gropey of all the countries I've been to in Latin America. I think the worst experiences I had were in Mexico, Chile and Peru.

It's a damned slippery slope. I mean, every man that a woman comes into contact with every day can say "Hey, you wanna take your shirt off, baby? You wanna suck my dick?" and she can then say no and get on with her life, but is this really how we want women to have to live?

In most of the world, groping is quite common. I've been groped in Egypt, Turkey, Italy, India, Australia, Morocco, Spain and all over Latin America.

I actually know people who don't say "have sex" (or "make love" or "fuck" or any of the other terms), but "take sex". Native English speakers. And the saddest part is that they're women.

This would make sense to men who seem women as human beings who can want or not want to be touched, who can consent or not consent. But guys like this truly do not see women as human beings. Women are vessels for their pleasure, things for them to touch, holes for them to penetrate. Women are no different than a…

I recall that my first response was "Huh. I didn't think you had such good time management skills". I kind of knew all along that he was a dick; I just didn't think he was that organized.

Olivia Wilde has a terrible case of Pretentious Undergrad Syndrome.

...on second thought, maybe I'll stay up for awhile. I don't think I'm all that tired.

Cancer, heart attack, stroke, MS, Parkinson's, lupus...all natural, but shitty.

Every time I scroll down the comments and see this one, it makes me laugh.

I don't believe in engagement rings but that one's really purty.

Not only was Esther totally badass, but the Megillah kind of implies that she was picked because she was awesome in bed. :p