I once saw a gay romance novel that came with a knitting pattern for an (extra large, as I recall) penis cozy. While I do read gay romance novels, I didn't read that one for so many reasons, only one of which was that it came with a knitting pattern for a penis cozy.

The appropriate tipping percentage keeps going up, and seems to vary a bit regionally. It wasn't that long ago that 15% was an acceptable tip, then 18%, now 20%. When I'm the southwest, 18% seems to be the generally agreed upon standard (although it's still 15% among older folks, generally), but in the northeast, 20%…

There are situations in which no one in the group can afford to cover the check for everyone. When I was younger, my friends and I could afford to eat out/tip appropriately for ourselves, but no one could afford to cover the cost for the entire party. Sometimes check splitting is a financial necessity.

This this this. They're nipples! There's no good reason for them to be shameful. I'd absolutely go to work without a bra if I could.

How do people earn money from YouTube? This has always baffled me.

As I recall, both kids were fathered by her older boyfriend. It was fairly common and accepted in my culture for younger girls to date older men, so I wouldn't be surprised if that were the truth.

I went to a religious high school and neither we nor the public school kids got any sex ed at all. A classmate got pregnant in 7th grade, and teachers came around to talk to each class in the grade about how things were going to be difficult for her and we weren't to treat her any differently and make things worse.…

That's a great idea! There aren't any food trucks in my area, but that's definitely something to keep in mind when visiting other areas.

Whew. Looks like Garnier is a L'Oreal line, so my miracle goop for curly hair is safe. Otherwise I'd have to buy out all of Amazon's stock and then cut a bitch. Messing with a curly's miracle goop is like messing with a black man's radio, for real.

This. I grew up working class and while I'm middle class now, I feel well and truly outclassed in any restaurant nicer than a Chili's or Applebees. Hell, even shopping at a higher end grocery store skeeves me out. I could date a foodie, that's fine, you do you, but I'd need my partner to understand and respect the…

This is awesome to know, and may be the one thing that actually convinces me to try one of those contraptions.

I felt bad for him, too. He came off as someone who genuinely cared about her, and she came off as someone who was too defensive to hear what he was saying and/or someone who was too coolly logical to care. She certainly doesn't have to care about him as much as he cares about her, but being a decent person isn't all…

I could've been clearer, I suppose. I think a lot of the ethics here depend on how well-matched people are. If sex isn't a big deal to you or your partner, have at it. But if sex is a big deal to one partner and not the other, then it gets complicated and I think people have a greater responsibility.

Sex is definitely a way of getting to know someone. But I think all people have a responsibility to be aware of how their actions affect other people's feelings. (No one's responsible for another person's feelings, of course, but I think it's disingenuous to completely disavow the relationship between your actions and…

Personally, I think it works better when you have the woman doing something we've seen so often we assume it's sexy, then the man doing the same thing and it's not quite as sexy (in part because it was played for laughs, and in part because we haven't seen it as often). It's the same premise used in the gender…

For one, I don't think I'd call these outfits particularly skimpy. For two, there's a lot more agency when we're talking about women who wrote and are performing their own song about critically calling out current trends in country music as opposed to women are only meant to be set decoration for a man's video. Or are…

One of the things my coworkers think makes me fashionable are my cardigans. I have a lot of brightly colored cardigans (Old Navy is my jam) and I pair them with brightly colored shirts and different accessories (big earrings in warm months, scarves in cold months). I don't think I'm fashionable (hell, I pretty much…

Surely you didn't just...no, you did. Great goddamn. Some people's self-centeredness knows no bounds.