I'm really sad about Harris Wittels. Like, did you know that he wrote for Eastbound and Down AND started the @humblebrag twitter account? Dude just seemed so genuine and also hilarious.

I was a groomswoman (groomslady? I don't know) in my brother's wedding — we're best friends, and his fiancée already had a bunch of friends who HAD to be bridesmaids because she was in their weddings. I came up with a menswear-inspired outfit, and it was excellent.

My mom and I both only pull at our eyebrows. For her, it was part of anxiety from her eating disorder in college. She never even told me about doing it until she noticed that I had developed the same anxiety habit (the look on her face the first time she caught me picking my eyebrows in high school was a terrible mix…

I wonder if Chip has ever seen this very relevant Muppets ad pitch

Their comment, while harshly worded, is valid, though. You said yourself that you don't want to come off as some kind of MRA troll — one important step in not sounding like those dummies is to stop referring to human women as "females."

I totally agree with all of this. I was mostly commenting on the unfortunate tendency to place all blame on the interloper, leaving the cheater as an innocent victim. I understand that it's easier for some people to believe that their SO was "stolen" than that s/he is a dirty dog, but it always leaves me shaking my…

yes to this - that "homewrecker" trope is my least favorite way that people (usually male people) get to abdicate all responsibility for their willies. I couldn't help it! She STOLE me!

Aren't Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer in an actual open relationship, though? Not sure what that arrangement entails, but people on Tumblr are always asking him why he isn't jealous about stuff his wife does

So true. There is really nothing more gratifying than a living being being SO happy to see you (even when you're late/grouchy/hungover)

Same here! My ASMR is only triggered by voices when it's unintentional (some of the voices in stories on programs like This American Life, or audiobooks) - these whisper videos make me feel a bit sick, maybe because it feels like they're staring at you/putting it on.

I once dated a guy who gave me essentially this exact justification for not deleting his Plenty of Fish profile after I found it open on his computer TWICE - once 2 months in and once 4 months in after he said he "just wouldn't check it anymore." IMO (and in my experience), the actual existence of the profile isn't…

So basic, but still so necessary to say. Made that mistake as a 21-year old law firm receptionist, but by a stroke of incredible luck he quit the next week and moved to a firm in San Francisco. (It wasn't because of me. I think.)

Please stop calling women females.

It's so shitty to have to live our lives this way, isn't it? I live in LA (with a car), but I only have street parking at my apartment. My friends get miffed when I beg off after-work happy hour in the winter, but uhhhh if I get home after 7 pm or so, I am definitely parking at least 6 blocks away, maybe more. And…

My mom took me to one of those in 3rd grade (I suspect she had no idea what it actually was). 15 years later, I still occasionally have nightmares about the Hell room where the girl who got an abortion had to writhe around like she was burning [for all eternity] all night

TRUE. I just cringed and thought, "Damn. Not the glasses, asshole!"

Nigel Barker is THE grossest. I wasn't Mr. Jay's #1 fan, but he is was better than that skeezy British weirdo.

Oh, I think I like you. Nigel Barker, however...

I know a girl who I thought was smart, funny and pretty all-around cool, until I discovered that she self-identifies as a "Chivette." There goes that friendship.