I wouldn’t be surprised if women are making smarter choices in that particular situation. The whole setup is doomed to failure in either case - setting up a competition to have the contestants pursue someone they might not normally like, putting them in an intense situation and then separate them with little contact…

COLONEL! I can’t believe I forgot that one. It is worse than sergeant.

Oh my god. Reading your comment for some reason finally made me remember the word I was trying to link of. Sergeant. When I am talking I pronounce it correctly (sargent) but when I am reading it out loud I say “sergent”. Also it took me awhile to realize that lieutenant is the same thing as the British word pronounced…

I used to read the etymologies in the dictionary for fun in high school AND wrote one of my college essays about it. Not sure I actually got into that school....

I’m glad I am not the only one. I think it happens a lot to us book-loving introverts. I can sing Rock a Bye Baby correctly, yet when I actually see the word “bough” I want to pronounce it to rhyme with toe. This is happening a lot now that I have kids I have to read aloud to and are asking me how to pronounce things.

Very dumb. Also super weird and infuriating that the descendants of slaves have been the only ones who haven’t been allowed to pass into whiteness to any extent. Obviously there are many groups that aren’t treated as white now, but most of the other groups that had big waves that then ended eventually intermarried and…

I am normally not a swooning type, but almost every picture I have seen of Chadwick Boseman during the premieres and award season, I have to fan myself.

That’s not how supply and demand work.

Well, in the early 1900s, the “whitest” whites were considered to be from Northern Europe. The prejudice and fear against immigrants from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe was a mix of racial, religious (Catholic and Jews, not Protestants) and political (a lot of anarchists and socialists).

I am just here late to say that my dad worked for a newspaper and he would take me to tour the printing press for fun. I was always terrified that the giant rolls of newsprint that were being ferried around were going to roll off and crush me.

Honestly, Jezebel always seemed to respect readers a bit more than Gawker, which had a really disdainful relationship. The Root came from outside that universe, which maybe helped.

I am of mediocre attractiveness, and I am friends with a number of ladies who, because of weight or looks or whatever, have not had much (or any) romantic success. However, as women, we tend to focus this rejection inward, and don’t focus it as outward rage on all the handsome men we “deserve”.

It is definitely out of date, but I assume that your bad handwriting has some unique qualities.

It was just a security thing they had you do before taking the test. I guess a signature was not enough...

God. I remember having to copy out an entire paragraph in cursive to take my GRE over a decade ago. At that point I hadn’t written anything in cursive in about 15 years and I basically couldn’t do it.

Exactly.

Especially because Monica Lewinsky was the least of it. The affair with her was consensual (albeit with power differentials). The other “Clinton women” have accused him of rape and sexual harassment.

Am currently on a video conference. Will blame you if I get fired.

Our requirements in high school in the dark ages were one year of World History and one year of US History. The issue is that it is really hard to squeeze the history of the entire world and all its cultures into one year, and it was inevitably weighted towards European history. But I found it really helpful learning…

I think more like winning bobsled and luge.