On a first date nothing says I'm not into you like the woman insisting on paying the check.

Being chivalrous is about treating a woman with respect, and that includes making her not feel like she is something that can be bought or sold. Not just adhering to a certain list of niceties.

As a straight woman, my strategy is as follows: I always offer to pay half on a first date. Always.

And yet somehow not a single one of these fetuses will become serial killers... Statistics must really be on their side!

America: where you only matter until you're out of the womb!

In addition, there's this (via Guttmacher):

I don't really think that is remotely what is keeping every day women from achieving parity. In fact, I think it's pretty insulting to suggest such a thing.

Most of this is irrelevant to my life because I work in an office where my boss is totally cool with me wearing jeans and t-shirt, and I would never buy $1000 shoes or a magazine that's hawking them, but I lovelovelove this:

Ariana Grande clings onto her Disney innocence in an age-appropriate floral minidress

Honestly, the only part about this overall god-awful performance that I find actually offensive is the use of black women as sexualized props (they are literally dressed as toys). Yes, everything else was bad, but we don't need to be upset about the fact that Miley was half-naked — really, in a bathing suit — and…

Now THAT is something the VMAs could do to really shock their viewers. Crossing my fingers for next year...

Even the doll is giving Miley the side-eye.

Yeah, the tongue and the grinding were the least gross parts of her performance.

This book is so overrated. The entire premise is based on a narration gimmick and it's both emotionally manipulative and poorly edited. The graphic novel chapter was the best part (mostly because it was a break from all those try-hard, colors-in-the-sky metaphors).

My parents have been together for over 35 years, and my mom has never seen my dad without a beard (and, as a result, neither have my brother or I). I'd be so, so traumatized if he one day showed up clean-shaved. I'd probably scream.

I'm not sold on the Tommen switch... The new actor is 15, which I think is a bit old to be rolling around on the floor with kittens and be completely oblivious of politics.

I will be more emotionally invested than you in our interactions. I will have left my heart on my sleeve, not because I was already infatuated with you, but because I thought you could’ve been something more than some woman who felt the need to lie to me rather than tell me the direct truth that you didn’t want to see…

I haven't seen the video this article is about, but I couldn't help thinking of this:

A++, would LOL again.

Nothing says Jesus Loves You like a wild tiger biting your face off.