I’ve never been to Vegas, and have no desire to go. But like you, I have one person I’d go to see. Dolly Parton.

It’s not that I don’t believe you - I’ve heard weirder stories, certainly - but she could’ve skipped a grade or been born late in the year or whatever and been young for the class. (Even still, your numbers corroborate the main story, so.)

That said... I don’t understand why this even matters?

I hope you read all of these replies; the vast majority are detailed, patient, and something you very desperately need to understand.

I’ll say again what I’ve said since Sanders announced his candidacy - having another candidate pull the conversation further left and prove the viability and popularity of truly progressive politics is a GOOD THING during the primaries. Clinton, especially given some of her statements during the debate, is clearly…

Will Smith doing a featured guest verse on Bomba Estéreo’s track vs. Miley or Gwen Stefani paying backup dancers to be living props in their solo-creative vision is a pretty huge difference in examples of agency and relative power.

2016 being a leap year, your 2nd suggestion is especially clever, since the day of the week will have jumped forward one.

I have actually asked my dude-friends this; the answer is YES - it is hard. I wish it was more acceptable to ask men this and hear their response. Maybe then we’d get mandatory parental leave and societal expectations about who’s supposed to be nurturing and who’s just supposed to handle the child-care would start to…

Some days, I watch her DNC speech just to hear her accent.

Yup. She’s clearly Welsh.

In the US, it is very, very common to keep your shoes on in the house - carpet or not. (Strangely, this is not true in Canada.) You can’t tell by race or economic class, either; I always observe my host when visiting their home for the first time to find out what their preference is.

People do that in real life. It is disgusting. I have witnessed one person flop on their bed and put their shoes ON THEIR PILLOW. I was horrified.

The only mistake you have made with that skirt is 2nd guessing yourself. (and possibly not owning a crinoline.)

Fetuses still have a shot at being male, after all.

I am sorry that you were not given the support you needed and deserved, and - for what it’s worth coming from a stranger on the internet - I am so proud of you for giving it to other women in the same position.

You should make a video that doesn’t show this, so that it’s not slanderous, but has some vaguely related footage of kind of similar things (a slim woman with a brunette bob?) and some ominous music.

I don’t think you look like a jerk at all - but I always check who the person is replying to when I’m reading through threads, so it’s pretty clear that you’re having a multi-threaded conversation. And, for what it’s worth, I think it’s totally fair to differentiate between Mexicans-of-Native-decent and…

That was wonderfully explained; thank you!

As backward as that is, I’m kind of impressed that an administration so committed to gender-roles let you swap, provided you freed up a space in the class you wanted to move into (which is why you needed the boy to trade places.)

I’m a Tex-pat. Whenever I go back to visit, I’m inevitably asked “when” (not “if”) my husband and I are planning on moving back.

I didn’t attend Kanye’s Glastonbury performance, so perhaps you know something from first hand experience that I do not, but I thought - after all the brouhaha - that it went rather well?