First, I think you’re missing the point. It’s a small amount.

Nono, you’re mistaken; it’s not that they should be paid in experience. It’s that they are supposed to be grateful to be in the presence of wealthy professional athletes who might deign to let them be glorified prostitutes if they’re especially good at cheerleading.

I don’t even understand how it is legal to provide and lawfully require knowingly untrue medical information. I further don’t understand how there are not lawsuits because of this (or maybe there are, but you’d think we’d hear more about those...??).

FACT: BRISTOL PALIN HAD TWO UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES THAT RESULTED IN BABIES. DON’T YOU WANT TO BE FAMOUS LIKE BRISTOL PALIN?

this part is my fav

My mom told me you could tell who had lost their virginity because their butts would suddenly get bigger.

This made me laugh but ruefully because it probably was something like this that happened. Not THIS exactly, but THISish.

To a subset of mothers, “motherly” means “entirely up in and controlling of my daughter’s vagina.”

“So, are you girls virgins? I can tell Julie is not because look at her exposed ankles. That’s the mark of a hussy. Put some clothes on Julie.”

The pesterers are deeply concerning - if they refuse to take no as an answer OUTSIDE of a relationship, imagine what they would be like in one?

He started proclaiming his love for me in one tirade as well. I know I’m a good shag, but not *that* good.

I went out on one date with a guy in college who started obsessively calling me after I said I wasn’t interested in hanging out any more. Made the mistake of calling me once when my dad was visiting and he asked whose call I was ignoring. I told him and my dad said “He calls again, hand me the phone.” He calls again…

It’s awful that so many of us have similar stories. I once ended up with a controlling, jealous guy. He seemed really normal when we met. I admit, I did move in with him way too fast (I had been living on the NYC subway for a few weeks—in January, brrr—after being kicked out of my parents’ house), but I never expected…

When I was 4, my mom’s crazy stalker (she was married to my dad - this dude just saw her walking in the neighborhood and thought she was hot) committed arson at our house - twice. I woke up when the fire truck roared up to our house to douse the fire he started in a pile of leaves. He came around the next day to tell…

A guy asked me out: he was in my class, handsome and funny, very clever. We dated, and at each point I felt under so much pressure to conform to his ideal person. He would get pissed for petty reasons, denigrate me, a few times he physically hurt me during sex way past the point of enjoyable. He was completely…

I’ll never forget when I was dating this man three years ago and one day he proceeded to get strangely aggressive toward me and controlling. I looked him in the eye, tried my best not to look scared and proceeded as normal with cooking, and he backed off of his “weird mood.” But I felt like I escaped something. Then…

Yes, but that’s not really the point. Her friend was killed because of her ex boyfriend's anger towards her decision to break off the relationship. This is a fear women face while dealing with controlling significant others. It is an unfortunately reality that we have to deal with.