This. She sounds like the 3rd best aunt in the world. (The first two being my aunts Barbara & Nancy.) but she’s not a parent. She’s a mentor. That’s awesome. Still not a parent.

I nursed my sister through her high-risk pregnancy and helped raise my nephew. I did it full time (raised my nephew) from 6 months when my sister had to return to work to 3 yo when we enrolled him in preschool so she wouldn’t have to worry about a stranger raising her child. I contribute in financial, emotional and…

Sometimes I fantasize about having an extra room all to myself and how I would decorate my “lady cave.” It would have a velvet couch, lacquered walls, sparkly textiles, a chandelier hanging from the ceiling, and a Champagne fridge.

Sometimes I think it might be nice to be in a romantic relationship again.

I’m short (5’2’’) and I’ve dated a handful of guys who were a foot taller than I am - and in once case like 14 or 15 inches - and they all had a habit of resting their chin on top of my head. When I was a teenager I thought it was cute, but when I got older I was like, “I’m not your fucking chin ottoman!”

The dudes who do this are not actually the touchy-feely type of dudes, either. They fear other dudes are gonna take their lady if they momentarily turn their attention away.

Always think of this now whenever I see Cher’s name:

Exclusive footage of NBC executives talking with Geoff Britten:

That’s very much not rape. He’s a liar, but not a rapist.

Oh God, her writing on libraries (and her stuff on poverty and benefits) is extremely moving. I like her a lot as a writer and I do think she’s coming from a well-intentioned place. She’s very middle-class white feminist, I don’t view her as very much of an intersectional feminist. That’s not a hanging crime but it…

It’s even worse when you hear it from women who proclaim themselves feminists. There’s this one woman I know who thinks that women all have feminitity forced upon them and so a female character acting in any stereotypical feminine manner is weak...but loves to headcanon guy characters acting the same way and still…

I know there’s a lot of talk about how poorly the civil war and the issues around it are covered in schools, but I do think everyone gets the ‘slavery is no longer legal in this country’ part. Maybe we need to define it better? For the Mary Mitchells if the world: you cannot own people, and you cannot lease them. If I…

Last week on SNS I posted about my father’s impending death, and so many of you replied to me with your own stories of dealing with dying loved ones. It was more helpful than you can imagine. I just wanted to update and say that my dad died early on Sunday morning, about 10 hours after I posted my story here. It was…

The same with my husband. He did date a lot because he is very attractive and has a very nice personality but even with those qualities, he tells me that women would some times tell him “it’s such a pity you are short because you are great otherwise”. He is 5’8’’! My husband never took the rejections too hard and just…

Pfft. I’m 5’7” on a good day and give zero fucks.

My fiancée and I are the same height. When I brought up this article I told him that I had “never heard a woman say she WONT date a shorter man, but have heard men say they won’t date fat girls.” To which he replied he has heard the height specification, specifically, and to his face. He said growing up multiple times…

Before I met my husband I totally discounted shorter men and would only date men over 6 feet. I too liked feeling smaller. I thought I just wasn’t attracted to short men. Then out of the blue I met my now partner who is only 5’5” (I’m 5’4”) and all my arbitrary ideas of attraction went out the window! I think it helps…

Besides, short guys have every right to be furious that they’re not being selected because of their height, *especially* when women then go on to call men superficial about their own taste.

When people make these kinds of statements about “social suicide”, they’re always talking about their own little social circle that they believe to be the reasonable centrist opinion. There are plenty of social circles that would consider it “social suicide” to suggest that you’d sleep with a fat woman, contradictory…

—For a man to openly reject a woman because he found her fat would be social suicide.—