I live in a rural, white, conservative area in New York State so I see this level of cognitive dissonance all the time.

“I see a woman taking control of her body image and expressing agency over how she is portrayed.”

Maybe the first time this was done. But this is something that a lot of young female Artiste types have done at some point, so at this point a conventionally attractive woman saying “I’m so Edgy! Look at my (societally…

Yea. I definitely had shades of this girl at some point. Thank god my crippling body and social insecurities kept me from doing something like this.

Yea, maybe this makes me a bad feminist but a conventionally attractive young woman posting nudes of herself doesn’t seem all that groundbreaking or particularly artistic...I mean, you do you girl, you look great and all, but this doesn’t seem to be anything that we need to be applauding as brave and narrative…

Having worked an office job that was fairly well paid with your typical office complaints, being laid off, and now working a shitty retail job while going back to school, the office job is so much better. While I’m fine with the choices I’ve made and will eventually be back in a more lucrative field, I don’t know how…

Went to school in Albany and lived there for a few years after working in the political machine. Not shocked at all; I can’t tell you the number of times I heard things like that come out of supposed “progressive” mouthes once they had a drink and took a look around to see that no black people were there to “get…

I like dicks, what can I say?

Yea, I have a couple of customers who make me want to pepperspray them as soon as they see them coming. The gross old man who eyefucks me from the moment he walks in and always manages to “accidentally” grope my hand when he hands me money. The guy who was already creepy enough, but has gotten even more disgusting…

This is my life. I’m a convenience store cashier who also happens to be a 20-something, conventionally attractive woman.

I have RBF and am naturally pretty quiet with a lower pitched voice. So if I do that, I get asked what’s wrong, asked to SMILE, SWEETIE, or get complained about because of my “bad mood.”

Yea, I’m halfway through living at home for a couple of years while I switch careers and go back to school. At 26, people clearly think of me as an old maid who will die shriveled and alone despite the fact that I’m in an healthy, fulfilling relationship. I’m in decent financial shape, have no compounding…

Yea, I’m also wondering how certain regions/income brackets impact this.

I live in a rural, conservative area where the mainstream mindset towards gender roles is extremely regressive. It’s considered perfectly acceptable for a man to cheat if a woman “lets herself go,” she gets too old, isn’t sexually available…

Funnily enough on his third attempt, while he leaned over me trying to physically intimidate me, he shouted at me about what a nice guy he was.

Because nice guys repeatedly go harass a checkout girl. Yep.

Exactly. I want to be able to walk around without random dudes beeping or yelling out of cars at me. I want to be able to go to work and not have some asshat call my boss and complain because I as nicely as possible turned them down.

I’m not saying I don’t recognize that beauty privilege is a real thing, and I do…

As a conventionally attractive convenience store cashier, no you shouldn’t flirt with people at work.

Just commented about my experience—exactly like your sister, down to the baggy clothes :(

First day of summer vacation after 5th grade, so 11. I had hit puberty early and hard and had hit my current height of 5’4’’ and had C cups that would grow to DDs. Emotionally, though, I was a young 11. Still very much a kid.

You think children should ask their parents in depth questions about their sex lives? Paging Dr. Freud...

Same here. When I'm in a relationship, I'm in it to win it. But if I'm single? Knee deep in dick. I also tend to like to date a guy more casually for a few months before I decide if I want a big R Relationship with the person, as I'm very guarded with my emotions and like to see if there's any long term potential…

They may be saying this for the readers, but I have a feeling this has more to do with the movie studios that don't like having to wait for the book to get going on the accompanying movie, especially with longer series like Harry Potter.

Same difference as me and my boyfriend, I'm mid-20s, he's mid-30s, so he's just started to show some signs of age and I haven't. I just hate when people assume that all older men with younger women are the type who are obsessed with youth/innocence. I've always preferred dating men older than I am, and he'd never…