Gender is both ignorable and changeable... easily. Sex is harder to change but could be ignored, if we as a people chose to.

I don't know if animosity's the problem, what with trans awareness starting to take off. I'd like to see more non-binary awareness/participation. Maybe that'll become a thing later in my life, but for now, Ms. is the best option for me. Maybe I'm a coward.

I think your sample is skewed because people don't often refer to people their own age by honorifics. You may assume all your best friends of your own age group go by Mr. and Mrs. and Miss, but do you really know that?

Equality between Irish and German and Italian and Polish people and white people happened in America when we stopped differentiating and the people from those ethnicities became white.

I'm not sure why "Ms" sounds like a stern 60-year-old English teacher to you.

I introduce myself as "Ms. Lastinitial" in classrooms. Everywhere else, I'm "Firstname."

"Mrs." DOES mean you are married and have taken your partner's name.

Two hours, three or four dresses, two moms and an aunt, and IMMEDIATE CONSENSUS. I still don't know how I got away with buying a dress so painlessly.

Yeah, if he wasn't on the internet begging people for money and desperate for dates, he'd be totally bangable.

Yeah, met my last long-term BF and then my husband on OKC. Ignored messages from guys I had nothing in common with, and sent messages to guys with good profiles and high match percentages. I also had a few other decent dates besides the long-termers. All in all, a great experience and entirely free of charge.

When you ask for them and then get them, they're the best thing ever.

But I've been getting so many stars for my wit and insight, it gets addictive - you should try it for yourself.

I don't think it's implausible that she's banging her dad, though. We're just seeing the mental gymnastics that come with trying to justify it to herself as an OK thing.

No, YOU'RE a towel.

BREAKING NEWS JoeinLA is objectively a douchebag so this headline isn't libel

Unreliable narrator! It's like Lolita but she's Humbert^2 and her dad's Lolita.

Think of the most depressed, poorly adjusted teenager you know. In your imagination, ask him or her why they don't have any friends. You will get some form of insult like, "They're all retarded jocks/dweebs/sluts/drug addicts."

What's the use of plotting with yourself?

or all the time her dad spent presenting her as just some girl he's dating before dropping the bomb that she's happens to be his estranged daughter.

That Reddit guy who had sex with his mom - THAT didn't sound particularly disordered.