A lot of people aren't very knowledgeable about food choices, and that may have something to do with class and privilege. I grew up in a working class family eating poor people's food and I'm intimidated by all the fruits/veggies/other random things I see at the grocery store now that I live in a nicer area. I don't…

I'm with you, especially when I have to wake up at 2:00 in the morning to drive for an hour and a half to the airport in order to catch a 5:00 am flight. At 2:00 in the morning, I don't give a shit what I look like and at 8:00 am, when I've already been up for six hours and still have two more airports to go, I still…

I was hoping it was a play on words I just didn't get.

I think it's highly context dependent, and your friend needs to learn to err on the side of caution when it comes to backing off. He can't just approach random women he likes in any situation; that's creeper territory. If he sees a woman and something indicates that there might be mutual interests (e.g., she's reading…

I can see what you're saying, but a lived identity doesn't necessarily have to be a publicly lived identity.

You're right. I stopped watching because of the NFL's terrible treatment of players with CTE. This has absolutely zero impact on the NFL, but it's about all I can do.

Your dad sounds awesome!

It's starting to catch on. Some Aetna plans provide pretty good coverage for trans-related procedures, though some gender reassignment (or genital plastic surgery, which is the term I'm hearing more often on the medical side of things) is still quite expensive even when covered at 80% or 90%. Some universities are…

This is an awesome comment and I absolutely appreciate it.

Right? I have friends who, on paper, I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. (Biases, we all have them!) In person, they're perfectly lovely. I'm sure the yoga folks are likely very nice and welcoming, but they're intimidating.

That was an excellent read. Thank you so much.

This is an excellent point. When I first got my Kindle, I was living in an area where the nearest bookstore was a 90 minute round trip. For an avid reader, that was torture.

Three primary reasons I love ebooks:

I keep hearing this, but in my all years of reading paper books I never once noticed how they smelled. All this talk about smell has me wondering if my nose is defective or something.

SES definitely has an effect. My grandfather and my mother both used to take walks through their neighborhood to help with health and fitness, but as poverty has taken a stronger hold and the neighborhood has become less safe, my mom's stopped taking walks altogether. She's privileged enough to afford a gym…

I looked at this stylus when I was shopping around, but a lot of reviewers of various floating disc styli mentioned screen scratches. I ended up opting for a rubber-tipped stylus just to be on the safe side, but this stylus was definitely in the running while I was shopping.

Plus sized clothing regularly costs more than straight sized clothing. I've had a multitude of experiences where an plus size item is the cost of the straight size item + x%. Plus size shoppers are used to this.

I think a lot of her appeal comes from the fact that she got started in country music at a time when a lot of these things (being a girl/young woman who played instruments and wrote her own songs) just weren't happening. It may seem like a low barrier to entry, but there was so much dude country,…

Excellent rebuttal! :) Kazan had the quirk turned up a little high for me, but I did like her performance.

Weirdly sad is a really good way to describe how I felt walking out of the theater. I'm with you on that.