I believe him. I was once 30 minutes into a lesbian date before I realized what it was (I’m straight). I thought I was just meeting a new friend for dinner and jazz until she started rubbing my knee. She was a lovely person and I felt so simple and stupid for putting us both in that awkward position.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve innocently shown up to a sex party and it turned out to be a business meeting. I feel Musk’s pain. :(

Must be nice to have a whole house designed for sex parties, while poors have to settle for just having the one sex party room!

Musk is either lying through his teeth, or he’s one of those smart people who has no real-world intelligence whatsoever. Because I have known people who can do things like attend a sex party and then go “oh my god, is THAT what was happening?!” in total earnesty.

The only one worth doing is Tupperware. The newer pieces are actually kinda Euro-looking and then there’s that lifetime warranty. If you have a funky old mint-green one that your mom bought in 1973 but the lid is too warped to close, give them the model number and you’ll get a replacement (although it’s usually a more…

I’m old enough to remember when these baskets were incredibly popular. I had just finished college and started my first real job, and the pressure to go to these stuped basket parties with co-workers was crazy. Or they would have catalog parties, where you just ordered out of the catalog.

Well on the plus side that average includes all of us schmucks, not just people with world class health care like Justice Ginsberg has

Weight Watcher here. I lost a stubborn 25 lbs of post-40 creep over 6 months this year, completely from having the app tell me I was eating too much crap. It’s been great. I wasn’t that overweight, I’m more active than average, and I basically know what I should be doing. But that kick in the ass and eye-opening …

I just literally don’t understand who is paying these ticket prices. My household annual income is comfortably in the top 5% and as far as I am concerned we cannot afford to see Taylor Swift in concert because that would be a stupid way to throw away such a large sum of money.

But women are still in charge of buying office birthday cards.

I wonder how it works exactly, though. Like, can they only compare title to title? How can companies, say, reward employees who do the best work without incurring fines?

Ghosting is so cruel and awful, I just can’t understand how anyone can do it. Especially given there are such easy ways of backing away from someone these days if you don’t want to keep seeing them - a text that simply says ‘sorry I’m just not feeling it, it was nice meeting you though’ or whatever would be so much…

I didn’t start my first “real” relationship until I was 25, after hanging on to some non-committal p.o.s. guy for 7 years. It seemed like all the waiting and working on myself and wading through assholes paid off. We lived together, spent every day together and then one day he dumped me in about the meanest way by…

You’re not the only one feeling that way right now - this time of year does suck. I have a really big family and yet spent much of the holidays alone or with one or two siblings because they all have their spouses and kids and in-laws. I do have a kiddo (adopted when I was 45 - always knew I wanted to be a mom so it…

The biggest gift my family ever gave me was that fully 50% of each generation don’t get married and become kickass uncles and aunts, for something like four generations now. So I was raised in an environment where being an old single was never “the wrong path” or some sort of lingering doom.

Standards and processes have completely reversed. It’s so much easier to find people and get dates now than it was back then. But I think that simplicity has made real connections more difficult, because there’s much less incentive to invest time and emotion in a potential relationship when you’ve got 50 other matches…

What it ultimately boils down to is: there are many more exceptional women out there than there are exceptional men. Ninety percent of the older single (unpartnered) women I know are intelligent, attractive and have many loving relationships with family and friends. I really cannot say the same about the older…

I appreciate your vulnerability in writing all this.

Ghosting really fucking sucks because it’s not even the fact they don’t want to see you anymore that hurts most it’s the fact they can’t be arsed to give you the decency of actually breaking things off or that it’s some weird game of theirs to see how much you really value the relationship.

Good for you, Aimee. Like you when I was alone (non-stop for the first 30 years of my life) I shrugged and said “it’s just me, it’s just who I am, to be alone.” I tried to convince everyone around me that it was fine, it didn’t matter, I’d be alone forever and that was a-ok.