Before cell phones were common, calling long distance was hellaciously expensive. We used calling cards - you had to dial a toll-free number, enter a code, then enter the number you wanted to call. Then the whole thing was billed to you monthly. In middle school, I had moved cross-country away from my sisters, and I…

Camille Paglia is a straight-up monster from another dimension.

IKR? When I gave it back during the breakup he was really upset. Didn’t mean anything, huh?

A while ago an ex gave me a ring that “didn’t mean anything” (thanks for saying that in front of my whole family, dude) so when we split a few weeks later I gave it back. I wonder if he ever gave it to anyone else.

My partner’s ex is his ex-wife of 7 years. I’ve really been trying to avoid learning much about her beyond the salient details (when and why they split up, basically). I don’t want to compare myself to her. That’s too much pressure. Thankfully my dude is not trying to remake me in her image, as others with significant…

Agreed. I’ve done the open thing before and so has Mr. Brotherjo, but together we are monogamous period end of story. We’re also both fiercely feminist, individually and as a team. The one has nothing to do with the other.

I feel like sometimes I get pressured not to be monogamous from people outside our relationship…

So if feminism is all about sex, then what about asexual feminists?

I have two long scars on my arm from when my now-deceased cat got spooked by something and flew away from the something with all his claws out. He went from the floor to the arm of the couch (where my arm was) to the other side of the room without stopping. Poor kitty.

I can respect a dislike for tomatoes...but then why order a BLT, especially when something close to what you described was also on the menu?

I used to work at a restaurant with famously amazing BLTs. They used fried green tomatoes and a garlic aioli and it was really just awesome. Some lady came in once and ordered the BLT but with no vegetables and plain mayo, on white bread instead of whatever it normally came on.

“So you just want bacon and mayo?”
“Yeah.”
“…

I kind of take offense to the idea that I’m not suitable for marriage/long-term partnership/whatever because I’m 31 and probably two years away from marrying my boyfriend (who is about to turn 34). In point of fact I’m in a much better place emotionally and financially to get married now than I was at any point in my…

I’m actually really, really, really okay with Komen losing funding.

Not sure if I’m getting the right message from this or not but I definitely want to blow shit up now.

Oh my god Virginia did something right.

All Liberty staff and students were required to go the Ted Cruz event, hence the high turnout. Otherwise, probably not many people would have been there.

Last summer I was finishing off a lunch shift and things were pretty dead when this woman walked in with her five-ish year old boy. She has a water bottle, like just a bottle of Aquafina or whatever, which isn’t totally weird, because it’s summer in Virginia (ergo, 100000 degrees out with 98% humidity). She orders a…

I bring a host(ess) gift when I’m going to someone’s house for the first time, period, end of story. Pretty much the only other time I do it is for a holiday party, regardless of how often I’ve been to the home. Also, whenever I meet members of my SO’s family for the first time (or spend the night with them, however…

To be honest, this is probably the most exciting thing ever to happen to Lake Elsinore.

I want a bouquet of knitted flowers, because I can make one for practically nothing out of yarn I already have and my favorite flowers won’t be in season the time of year I hope to have the wedding. Also no one will get hurt when I throw it. Win/win.

I watched the whole first season. Honestly the only good joke was Xan’s middle name. The rest was just unbearably twee.