I live in Texas, and we normally have 100+ degree highs for long stretches in the summer. It can be 80 on Christmas day. I am a runner, and I wear running shorts and a dry-fit tank top almost every time I run. I hate the gym, but the rare times I go, I wear this exact same outfit. It isn't revealing, intimidating,…

Where do you live? I ask because I live in Texas, and at 32 I definitely feel that way. My sister is in Seattle and says the expectations are much different. My brother and his fiance are older and are very much the norm in Northern California. 23 is still very young, by any standards I know of. You are at a critical…

Not everyone cheats. Perhaps everyone you know cheats. You can't simply take your life experience and presume that it applies to everyone else. Cheating is common, sure. But it certainly isn't everyone.

I see your point, but even the fact that it is worded as what country "lets" women do this or that says a lot. About everywhere.

What is gendered butthurt

Completely agree. You don't have someone host your bachelor party and then not invite them to the wedding. I mean... no.

Truly, this isn't funny. It's tragic. It makes me want to blow things up and run over men in the streets. Or at least men who spout this type of thinking.

Are you sure there's an automatic $10k fine for DWI in Texas? I live here, and I've never heard that.

There is nothing wrong with being a virgin! Everyone should do with their bodies what they want when they are comfortable with it. I, too, don't like that virginity seems to sometimes be viewed as anti-feminist. I am not a slut shamer, and I do think teens should receive comprehensive sex education in schools, and I…

I love this! I would love if I were proposed to with a placeholder ring and then shop for one together. Although, I just want a simple band to be stacked with a wedding band. Two sparkly, tiny-diamond studded, perhaps slightly engraved, bands.

Wow, maybe it's a Texas/California thing. Nearly every woman I pass at the grocery store is rocking a giant diamond. And my brother just dropped ~$20k on a ring his fiance had to have. In my life, $5-10k is the norm. Yes, I find it outrageous, but around here it's the norm.

When I was younger (in my 20s), I felt that engagement rings were extravagant but I still wanted one - a big, shiny, expensive one. I'm now 32 and I honestly do not want a traditional 'large center stone' diamond engagement ring. At all. I'm not even sure I want an engagement ring. To me, they have come to symbolize…

He compares all women to his wife? Uh, you celebrate Valentine's Day with your wife not because she is a woman but because she is your SPOUSE. People are hella stupid.

I just found a forgotten pack of graham crackers in my pantry last night and binged on two of them. Mmmmm!

You should find the finale (and post-finale interview) online and watch it, even if just for scrolling. It is incredibly awkward.

He sucked and wasn't a good bachelor for their show. He embarrassed them by making poorly chosen comments about gays and the mentally disabled during the airing of the show. It seems like you're disagreeing with this, which is fine. And like I said, I know it is stupid that I follow the show. But I'm just calling it…

Agreed. If that had happened to me, I would have run out in embarrassment and complained to all my friends but not filed a lawsuit. How do you even justify that? Gross stuff happens.

No, I think he totally sucks and a lot of the women all noticed and complained about the same thing. I just mean there have been people on the show in the past who weren't awesome, and the show still did their best to present a happy love story. They intentionally didn't do this for JP and Nikki. The way the finale…

Whatever. I encountered poop in a Macy's dressing room. It was on a crumpled tissue tossed on the floor, but it was unmistakably poop. Beat that!

I'll admit it. The guy I'm currently dating is a bit traditional, so instead of trying to pay for things alternately when we go out, I invite him over periodically for dinner where I buy the groceries/wine and cook the meal. I get to pay him back without publicly taking the check. I know, I know. But to me it's a…