I disclose honestly when asked, I make sure people I’m kissing regularly know I have HSV-1 orally (cold sores), but I admit that I do not mention it to everyone before I kiss them. The risk of me spreading it to someone I kiss once, while I don’t have an outbreak, is so infinitesimally small... I’ve never spread it…

The whole concept of daddy issues is mainly a way to delegitimize women’s feelings. Kinda like pointing to PMS. Yeah, maybe every once in a while that is what’s going on, but usually it’s not. I have probably exhibited most of the behaviors associated with daddy issues at one time or another. I’ve mainly dated older…

It CAN be spread before you can see a lesion, but I wouldn’t say it usually is. Usually, if you do not see a lesion, you are not contagious.

Yeah, I am not worked up about this. Perfectly legitimate question.

I remember that moment. When Leo turns around on the beach, sunlight streaming through his hair, cigarette in hand, Talk Show Host by Radiohead playing, and the whole theater sighs. Ping!

Right. Like maybe you still get to be straight when you’re attracted to someone who does not id as female?

This is a good point. I don’t if I have anything insightful to add on the topic except to say that I think it’s true that fat people are more likely to be read as “butch” while thin people are more likely to be read as “androgynous” or “genderqueer.”

Ok, but did they do better at solving logical problems?

Every year I tell myself I will take all my vacation and somehow never do. It’s particularly hard working at an understaffed nonprofit where, if you’re not there, there is no one to do your job. And where actually needy people are relying on you rather than corporate clients, which I might feel stressed about being…

You’re not alone. I always pick up my trash in every other situation, but also somehow picked up along the way that it was expected you leave it at a theater. Part of the service of “going to the movies”. Like at a restaurant. There are even fast casual restaurants where there’s no where to put trash because they have…

This may be a stupid question, but has it been absolutely determined that she is not black? Not a black grandparent? No question of paternity? I see that she is light-skinned. I know biracial people who are just as light-skinned. I see the blond childhood photos. I also have a Puerto Rican uncle who was white-blond as…

Ah, so don’t eat FOOD for their enzymes. Not necessarily that digestive enzymes (like in a pill) aren’t helpful? I think I misread.

I’m by no means a paleo-bone-broth-psuedoscience foodie person. I’m also no digestive enzyme expert. But this makes no sense. If we can be short on lactase, and taking lactase can help us digest things that contain lactose better, and everyone agrees on that. I don’t see why protease or amylase wouldn’t similarly give…

Ah, I didn’t click through. BUT I don’t understand the logic still. This is saying “You don’t need to take enzymes, your body makes enough!” Well, we know that’s not always true for certain enzymes, like lactase. So I don’t see why it couldn’t also be true for others. That taking them could boost your body’s supply…

I’m pretty sure it’s not a myth that taking lactase (enzyme) allows me to eat cheese.

Advice please! I have a “debt” in collections that I do not believe I owe. It’s for a school that I briefly attended. Most of the debt is for “tuition” but I had a scholarship and the rest was federal loans, which I’m paying dutifully, so that makes no sense. And some of the debt was for a piece of school equipment,…

This is a bit dated now. But I like to share this article as “reasons why I like Miley.” http://noisey.vice.com/blog/miley-cyr…

The pot. Whatever. The smoking and driving and dangerous car chase. Maybe. It was cool of the manager to help her out, but I don’t view putting other people’s lives in danger by getting behind the wheel of a car while fucked up lightly.

So, I’m always mildly annoyed when I go out to eat with my boyfriend and this seems like a good place to ask if I’m being reasonable or unreasonable.

I thought a lot of the individual category numbers were off, but thought the ultimate number for me was right on. $175,000 household income to live a not-extravagant, but comfortable life with vacations and children and savings and occasional indulgences. That sounds right to me.