My beef with e-cigs is that many who use them act like they are not at all disturbing to those around them just because they're not tobacco cigs. Like, people smoke them in movie theaters, letting the vapor rise up in front of the screen others are trying to watch. That's obnoxious.

That makes me ... so grateful and so rageful at the same time. It's the men who are perpetuating the problem — as well as failing as a gender to address their half of the problem — but it's women who feel compelled to intervene and protect ... all too often at risk of their own harm.

Actually, the study doesn't say that. The study says that the sexual aggression wasn't associated with alcohol use by the aggressor. It only correlates to alcohol use by the target.

Once again, reality reveals its deeply liberal bias.

No. Actually. The study doesn't say that. The study says that assholes are assholes sober or drunk. However, regardless of their own intoxication levels, they only TARGET drunk women.

What doesn't make any sense is that if you get drunk and kill someone in your car no one cuts you any slack. If anything the crime is considered more heinous. But for some reason being drunk totally mitigates other major violent crimes, like rape?

What he's saying is "sports participation also strongly correlates with self-esteem."

But if they give it away for free, how will the dairy industry survive?!?!?

That is so horrible. I had such a different image of Berkeley in my head, it's even more disappointing than all the other stories of similar incompetence.

Oh, and, "settling" a case without the victim's input, suspending the assailant and then not telling his victim for 4 of those months of suspension? I just can't…

It's clearly safe. :) I have a theory about Anne Hathaway — I think her short hairdo had a lot to do with how people perceived her. I don't know why, but I think long hair in her particularly makes people think she's sweet and likeable, while the short do doesn't make her look relatable (in some people's views), in…

Evan Rachel Wood looks stunning, like she stepped out of Hollywood ca 1935.

Yeah, and when showing everyone's faces during the announcement for Lupita's win, JLaw look genuinely happy for her! I mean, yes, she could be faking that, but if she is, then she did the respectful thing. I don't think she was, because she won last year and I'm sure she knew Lupita deserved it more. But yeah.

I'm definitely one of those meangirls you talk about, just because half the reason I engage with pop culture at all is to let my pettiness fly, but you're 100% right. I hate this "zero sum game" view of female success - it's so poisonous and the same reason some women will 'hate' another woman for being beautiful and…

I'm actually pretty astounded by the amount of JLaw backlash. I mean, why? It's not like she's changed that much from when everyone was worshiping at her alter. I feel like a lot of people are being really catty right now.

Why not a nerpster, or a nipster?

Yeah, I guess normalcy isn't the issue here, though I do find it oddly comforting to think we're not the only couples who watch this stuff. And, I mean, it makes me happy that it makes my husband more interested in sex, but it DOES make me sad that "just me" doesn't have the same effect anymore...

I think normal doesn't matter, it's what you are comfortable with. Like I get that it is something people do together and we do sometimes but I don't like to so much because it makes me feel badly about my body and that I never have and never will look like those women which takes me out of the mood. I get what you…

I'm about to finish my undergrad degree with basically no skills and a boatload of anxiety issues. My family just moved to the middle of Satans sweaty arm pit in NC and from what I've heard it's not really the most enlightened town. I've only just this semester started to come out and I'm so scared that if I go down…

Thanks for missing the point entirely. Way to uplift the spirits of a stranger over the internet by being a raging asshole.

I wrote ages ago about needing to have half my thyroid and a tumor removed because the docs couldn't rule out cancer. I had the surgery on Monday and other than being tired, I feel fine. I'm still waiting for the pathology, but the surgeon said things went well and the likelihood is things will be fine.
I'm off work…