I really want to know what made Courtney change from a normal teenager into someone who presents herself in a hyper-sexualized way all the time. This would be useful to me. Her behavior is more troubling than the clothing and the stripper heels. She seems like she is on drugs in most interviews but I do not think she…

As far as I know they are not underage sex slaves, and the few women who have come forward to explain this (2 since 1985) have said that it is not a sex slave type job but a very well paid position (25k+ a month in the eighties). Trading girls is a huge business and part of that business is conducted in the open (if…

"police officers, sheiks, and attorneys trying to get ahold of her all the time." What the fuck does that even mean? What it means is that attorneys need arm candy and some police officers have bad judgement. The sheiks thing is also quite frequent. ALL women who put themselves out there as a 'product' will eventually…

Self-funded and bootstrapped lean startup is where it's at... Funding would be helpful but the thought of having to move and being surrounded by these people is making me cringe!

Pundits on FOX are not the best judge of... anything really. FOX is Hell right?! I mean think about it, spending hours on end scraping the bottom of the barrel by making sure everything is superficial enough to be understood by people who find things like knowledge, diversity and intelligence REALLY scary and…

I immediately joined the site when I read the NYT article and I love the photos! Aspirational is a word that has been co-opted by people who are all about creating something that isn't truly attainable (retouched beauty) and then selling it to us again and again... It's plastic pretty eye candy, but it's also vapid…

I loathe the day my kid gets on Facebook and gets her own phone. There is still so much to teach her. But I am in the ideal position because pro-actively teaching a 12 year old how to use the Internet and a phone strategically and, in the future, is way less distressing than picking up the pieces afterwards. I too…

When I was 14 I had to go to the 'Miracle Mart' and use the photo booth next to the diner area to take topless photos of myself, then wait in front blocking the view of the chute for 5 long minutes until the pictures came out. And then I had to get an envelope and a a stamp and a thick piece of paper to hide the…

I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for writing out about your experience. I know many women who have gone through this difficult experience yet I did not know the details. This should be part of reproductive health/health & hygiene courses (if there are any of those in High School)

I would say, lucystrawberry, do not worry :)

The Internet creates places for people to be validated and encouraged in their anti-social behaviors. Pedophiles and sexist trolls will find enough normalizing support in such forums that they forget they are total scumbags. Fox News sort of creates the same situation with their bigot empowerment content and…

Adolescence = realizing the people who are raising you are lying sacks of shit. I did not enjoy being lied to so I prefer not to lie to my child.

It doesn't really matter if he is into you. A guy who uses SMS rather than calling you is a teenager (even if 30) so you might want to consider the mental age difference. A guy who texts you late is hoping for the easiest path to a hook-up. Consider how wonderful that will make him in bed (blech...) It doesn't matter…

The entire premise of Hollywood is to provide older people with money with access to pretty young people... It's really surprising that they manage to cram pout some really good TV shows and movies :P

This is really beautiful. I know why I had to lose weight but I don't feel better about my body than I did before because of the outside ravages of being saggy and looking different (I am now in the uncanny valley of me). We are all different when it comes to skin resiliency, mine is not elastic at all, there will…

I love how the people on British TV resemble actual human beings and I also love how they are spread out in age :) Makes everything more believable.

'I'm not on Facebook' <— Congrats! It takes a lot of effort not to get on that bandwagon :) I have been living publicly writing about my private life to people all over the world for almost 30 years and with facebook, twitter and blogs, I continue to live in public and yet I remain anonymous because MILLIONS of people…

Sorry about that MisfitToy, but as Ashaleeeee's reply to me mentions, it is all done in aggregate. The system isn't targeting you so much as a person but as a set of statistics. There is also the case of 'is this legal'. Reading the TOS and Privacy Policy will help someone determine how the company is giving itself…

Facebook is the holy grail of Big Data. Even more so than Google because Facebook is intricately woven into the everyday process of your life. I was once befriended by the owner of one of the biggest social media sites on the Web. Being a hacker and having used social media forensic for over a decade I promptly told…

Many people replied to my comment and I realized that I forgot the word 'to excess' after drinking. But I stand by the quote you published in your message. If alcohol wasn't a poisonous neurotoxic scurge that made me sick after one glass, I am sure I would also have some love for it, like a lot of people. One of the…