I love group texts for staying in touch with people and coordinating plans, but fuck it that doesn't mean that your phone will blow up at the most inopportune times. Being the reluctant bystander to a 15-message gossipy condo between two of your friends about a guy they met at a bar two weeks ago is…not pleasant.

Absolutely. So long as people can say "Women earn less than men because of different choices"—i.e., the "choice" to stay home and raise a family versus working nonstop for promotion, the way that her spouse is enabled to do by her role as child's primary caregiver—there can be no real improvement in pay equity.

Oh my God that last one is amazing.

I also liked that she did the fish-face, but with a "Am I doing this right?" quizzical look. I can never fucking remember what I'm supposed to do with blush. Apples of the cheeks? Fish-face? Under the cheekbones? In a "U" from forehead to nose? Whatever I do, I'll always look at the mirror and be positive I did the…

So true! Although sometimes there's the opposite, who would walk in every day with a new appalling story ("He read my journal and is harassing me about my ex-boyfriend" "He got drunk and told me he was never sexually attracted to me" "He deleted every male contact in my phone"), bitch about him for hours, and would…

I agree with this, but I also think there's a human responsibility to read nonverbal cues to understand one another. I have a friend who, after going on one brief date with a guy, never heard from him again. "I just wish he had been upfront and honest with me, and not given me mixed messages" she would say—and I'd be…

Holy shit that's frustrating like hell. I've had a version of that where a guy assumed that whenever I was sad/angry, it was because of him. I'd have a shitty day at work, tell him so, and still have to talk him through the "No, you didn't do anything" emotional crisis. It's a weird kind of self-absorption.

That's a really good point. A lot of jokes made about straight men are that they're taciturn and inexpressive—and that's because a guy saying, "Listen, when you said that thing earlier, it hurt my feelings" runs so counter to gender norms that it's practically taboo.

I think a lot of female friendships fall into a territory where analyzing male actions is a major pastime. I don't know if it's a SATC byproduct or just the way that some girl bonding plays out, but I know that I got bimonthly manicures and pedicures with the same two girls for a little over a year, and in that time,…

Oh, agreed on all of those guys! If Hollywood men were on a menu, I'd go for the ones you mentioned before Colin Farrell and Justin Timberlake. I meant more "I'd tap that" than "That would be my first choice of sex partner."

Or blackmail some Hollywood elite. ("Give us $X—or give one of our photographers access to your next family vacation—otherwise your name gets unblurred.")

Seriously? I agree with 12. Either I'm trashy or you have praise-worthy high standards.

Yeah, I felt that a little bit when Lindy made the note about how XXXL still wouldn't be helpful to many women. There's a lot more to making clothing accessible to everyone than just "make this skirt, but then make it in every size!"

I don't know—in watching his other appearances, I've always found him very superior and condescending. Did I misread him or is he just remarketing himself (and making the incredibly smart business decision to not act like an asshole when talking about issues related to making fashion accessible to more women)?

What's the first gif from? (Is that Kristen Bell?!)

So burdensome the night of; worth it for the morning after.

He's going to assume you've got some highly specialized sex toy fetishes—which will probably intrigue him, and just leave him disappointed when he finds out it was a dress and flip-flops.

Masterful repurposing of the pedicure flip-flops, girl! Could totally roll those up and shove them into a small bag. I bow down to you.

My point was made about tears generally, not her situation specifically. In the same way that many articles on here tend to, the conversation uses the article as a jumping-off point for a bigger discussion about issues that we all experience. This year, I've seen coworkers break down into tears several times in…

I think women are harder on each other because for most men, tears just play into their existing narratives and assumptions about women. When a female coworker cries, a man sees it as just being a reflection of her naturally more emotional and sensitive tendencies. A woman, seeing how the tears play into those…