I hear you and am a sad panda for the same reason. My posts/ replies are often recommended, but it'd be nice to be able to post to Groupthink :(

Ditto! I would have loved to have been allowed in a room alone with any of my male friends or boyfriends. My mom, the sex ed counselor for teens, was strangely weird and uptight about teen sex when it came to ME. I remember asking to have a co-ed sleepover when for my 16th birthday, because half of my besties were g…

Grr.. Kinjaaaaa!!

Just read The Truth by Terry Pratchett, he totally explains it ;). Time is not linear and... as long as you have your potato, you'll be fine.

Just read The Truth by Terry Pratchett, he totally explains it ;)

This is going to become even more of a horrific situation as time progresses. After watching Girl Rising, I was struck by the statistics in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for how many "marriagable" girls are kidnapped a year and then sold to the highest bidder as "wives". And I have no doubt that China and India…

Ugh, I just can't even. They're just going to teach them how not to get caught, and I pretty much want to just go set things on fire now.

My faith in humanity is restored, because I seriously needed this after the past week.

Yep! I've had guys (it's ALWAYS guys) harass me while I had my earbuds in and was knitting/ or reading. It's, like, DOUBLE the deterrent, you'd think - but no! One guy even started arguing with me because I clearly wasn't knitting what I said I was knitting - like, what? Another wouldn't leave me alone until I…

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Driving across country freaked me OUT when I was a teen - after growing up in D.C., it was beyond weird that everyone looked the same (seriously, same coloring and features!) in so many of the small towns we passed through. It also made me wonder if their ratio of birth defects was higher than you'd find in a city…

Recentlly (and I wish I could find the link) an etiquette expert stated that $50-$100 per attendee was correct. So, anywhere between $100 - $200 would be right, if you attended with your hubby :)

A friend of mine (before we met) took her bridesmaids to Nordstrom's and told them each to pick out a little black dress - which she paid for. That's what they wore during & after the ceremony - and definitely kept, because not only did they get to choose, they ended up with something functional, too. Seems like an…

How are the female characters the "needy" ones when it's the Doctor who* goes slightly nuts/ generally crazy when he's alone? Like, seriously, that man cannot function on his own.

Well, and it seems a little much for previous generations to judge us for our assertive tendencies when they were the ones who pushed it as a learned behaviour in school. Anyone else remember those childhood moral stories about making decisions and believing in ourselves? We were expected to make decisions and stick…

Glad I'm not the only one who had to check! I scored 70 masculine, 66 feminine, and 56 androgynous. It seems to me that their standards are more than a little outdated and wouldn't be out of place in the "good old days" Republican mindset.

Up to 15 days of "detainment" (i.e. jail) and then deportion - and that's for anyone who is gay, supportive of gay rights, or seen as promoting the gay lifestyle. I keep wondering if this is Russia's way of rigging the Olympics in their own favor (just think of how many of our athletes they could detain - for 15…

Talking Rain is an awesome US option that's super yummy and carbonated. Bleh to flat fizzy water. Though some purists may not approved of their flavored sparkling water flavors.

Well, I don't know about Washington, since they can be quite pretentious up in Seattle and Microsoft Land; but, in Oregon special water bottles are a thing. I have a collection that range from the ones I carry in my purse (smaller and sleeker and pretty) to my camping/ hiking bottles (big!). Buying water is for…

Is anyone else wondering why he hasn't just gone with a mail-order bride? A (desperate) Russian woman would fit all his "essential" criteria and could just pretend to not understand him when she didn't want to. Alternately, I'd be seriously tempted to set him up with a high-end escort and watch from afar (and laugh).