This one time, at a music festival? I was wearing a psychedelic-print swing dress, because early 90s (and those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, yadda yadda) and for some reason my raggiest, baggiest pair of laundry-day underpants. The dress had pockets, thankfully, because I had to keep grasping…

I was going to correct you on your usage of "nonplussed," but then I looked it up because incorrectly correcting someone's grammar or usage is the WORST. I always thought "nonplussed" meant unfazed. But I was wrong, and your usage is 100% appropriate. So thank you for teaching me something today.

I feel like it's... not sanitary? To not wear underwear frequently? Or is this some old wive's tale my mom instilled in me at a young age?

But how will people know that I am in the know about the no-underwear? Do I have to run around screaming "I'm sans panties! I am so fashionable!"

I tried so hard to resist making this truly disgusting and sexist joke, but are you saying Gwyneth is getting her goop everywhere?

Ack, bad bad version of En Vogue song forming in mind, must...stop....

I feel like, there is something I'm not understanding- as a feminist I am having difficulty understanding how this is progressive or subversive. Because I feel like this is very objectifying.

Am I the only one who finds it trashy and whorish? Actually, since I find Rihanna trashy, the dress is perfect for her. I still hate it.

"eviscerate"? Do you mean "dismantle"? It's a weirdly violent image to conjure up, if your argument is that we have to stop feeding a culture of violence.

It was only a few weeks ago that I cottoned onto to the fact that there are actually people out there who don't recognize "troll" as a fishing term. It left me reeling (sorry, couldn't resist bad pun-making opportunity).

For the first one I'd make an anonymous donation to a charity in honor of the baby. They won't specify the amount and you can give her the little announcement/card they include. She'll look like a jerk if she says anything and you can make lemonade out of lemons. It's basically following the rules since you gave a…

Fat girl PhD student with all the stress here who says be whatever weight you want but get some greens up in that diet! You'll feel ten times better! Not about weight, just about healthy poops and energy and the like!

I don't think "predecessor" means how you're using it in the last sentence.

See, and I don't see what the big deal is with Tom Hiddleston OR kittens so you have no idea how much time that frees up for transcription-based pursuits. (Yes, I know I just outed myself as a sociopath.)

I really enjoyed this. We really ostracize the old these days, so a minor gesture of inclusion becomes meaningful, touching, surprising. How awful that it's like this. Can't we do more to apply the same critique of binaries that we apply to gender, sexuality, race etc to age? Youth is not a positive force…

While this is well-written, clever, and very funny, I feel like there are mixed messages here.

My principal decided to schedule a huge parent-teacher-community gathering the night Friends was ending. He was a very approachable man who had originally hired me as a teacher and I joked with him that it was the finale of Friends and it was a BIG DEAL (I was also a little peeved that I had to miss the finale for…

I am very concerned about what is happening with the dress under her armpits here.

Sorry, didn't realize that your way of social networking was The One True Way. I'm with you in terms of how I use social networking, but I'm also not so full of myself as to think that my way is superior than others.