Yeah, but that wasn’t the reason stated. The reason for not doing her head hair cut was because of her nether regions.

we autistic women are even invisible to many autistic men (some of them won’t even acknowledge that it’s possible for a woman to “truly” be autistic because of all the “male-brain” bullshit that’s out there). i can’t express how frustrating it can be.

as an autistic woman (we are judged more harshly for not being outgoing and “warm” than autistic men are because social facilitation is expected from women) i can very much relate to this. i don’t walk around with a mindless smile on my face all the time, so i get “you’re so cold/unfeeling”—no, i’m actually quite…

God, yes. I got called “scary” or “intimidating” all the time when I was more reserved in public, and I also am extremely unintimidating physically and rarely even raise my voice. I thought it was because I could be a little sarcastic at times, and people thought of that as cutting or something, but it eventually…

Take it from me: No, you don’t. Being a reserved poker-face woman in America sets you back in many areas of your life. Trust. I’ve had people call me “intense” and it’s not a compliment.

You have a few years yet. Around the age of 35 you start to see the value in having Beginners Mind. “I know almost nothing, and am responsible for nothing more than what I truly know.”

Born in 1980. I grew up as a latchkey kid with two busy working parents. Dinner most nights was something like Mac ‘n Cheese or Hamburger Helper. The 80s and 90s were a time of very synthetic food, and people today are having to do more what our grandparents did as opposed to what our parents did.

Plenty of people with shitty parents grow up to be normal, decent people. It doesn’t mean shitty parents aren’t shitty.

Grew up hunting. Family ranch in south Texas, one of the first to actively manage whitetail deer as a herd starting in the 70s (thousands of pounds of formula-specific deer feed per week, curated oat fields, segregated populations, quota kills). The purpose of all of this was to engineer more bucks having bigger and…

“64 percent of college-educated women opted for a so-called neo-traditional arrangement — the man is the primary breadwinner and the woman is the primary caregiver, though they share some of those tasks.”

It’s sad, but not at all surprising. I’m a small business owner, and many of my suppliers are men. About a year ago I created the alias ‘Dick Berns’ to use in purchasing. Since then I’ve found that on average my orders ship 2 days faster and cost 6% less when the person on the other end of the transaction thinks that…

Oh, FFS. This whole bag check thing wouldn’t have anything to do with Delta Sigma Theta being a historically black sorority, would it? Naah!

Yeah, sorry, I’m not “horrified.” Some pale kids got a severe sunburn. No one is dead. No one is seriously and irreversibly maimed.

Yep. I’m a total cat lover and have two incredibly active cats that have never stepped foot outside the house in their lives unless they were in a carrier. They don’t miss what they don’t know. If you can’t handle cats going crazy (in an adorable way) inside, don’t get a cat.

My OCD has the biggest boner right now.

That made me laugh out loud.

I hate it when people tell me not be sad or angry, and I'm not at all. I'm just sitting around, and someone comes around and straight up accuses me of having some sort of strong or troubled emotion. Annoying. Then, people tell you you need to calm down when you're not angry, until it starts pissing you off, and then…