Probably because in many ways my preferences and traits jive more closely to those of England as presented to hoi polloi of America (yes, I'm sure it's not entirely accurate, but it's all we've got to know England by, if we can't get there in person) i.e. more mannerly and less anti-intellectual, two things I…

Be comforted in the knowledge that, even if those 2 extra hours of sleep render you a little less haggard, the boners shall be thwarted by the untamed pelts under your arms, just as planned at the last Misandrists United: Get Bikini Ready, Make Them Cringe meeting back in June.

I'm a huge Anglophile but that beans-for-breakfast thing both stumps and disgusts me. Of course, I think baked beans for ANY meal is gross, but for breakfast especially... **hurk**

You spend 5 whole hours sleeping, instead of complaining? Slacker. If you were a REAL feminist, you'd cut back your sleeping to 3 hours or less, so as to maximize your real complaining potential.

You can do it at the end of dinner, while you're putting away the condiments/drinks etc. That's what we do, at least; one of us puts that stuff away and loads the dishwasher, the other washes the pots, and it's all done in under 10 minutes and the fridge stays funk-free. :)

OMG, how creepy would it be if women were as free to catcall men as the reverse? I'd be too embarrassed to even try it, because it's fucking lame.

Funnily, he has another, similarly-named dance-themed song out now, and it's just as catchy. http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Bailando/…

The struggle is real. This helps me to not pitch myself from a bridge when the zits get bad from stress: http://www.mariobadescu.com/drying-lotion

Question: will the makeup police come and arrest you for wearing "too much" makeup? Who is the arbiter of "too much", btw?

I hope you don't mind me coming at this from a Buddhist POV... which isn't very complimentary. Please know I'm not going to write this to be an asshole, it's just hard to express it without coming off as a dick.

Whale vomit, tyvm.

It looks like it's coming from someone who I actually know, not a stranger interrupting me when I'm busy to make me hear their unsolicited, pointless judgment on my appearance, which is none of their business.

I'm actually not married because reasons. My marital status is irrelevant, though. There is an actual difference between "genuinely upset" and "drama queening it up". I can handle the former, but have no patience for the latter.

Why, because he's a man, and men are "supposed" to be stoic and emotionally bulletproof and so he can never get upset or the world will fall apart? Men aren't allowed to feel uncomfortable at being trivialized or sexualized?

Not necessarily a "yes man" so much as someone listening to her, without judgment.

Ugh. That's the risk you take; you're gambling that they're less crazy than you are and sometime you lose that bet! I'm glad you got away safely :) Thanks for telling me the tale! <3

Malkin, à la Florence King. She defined a malkin as a woman desperate for the approval of men.

Yes, she would, because she knows that what matters is the fact that your loved one is upset, not whether or not the upset is justified. She didn't go to him looking for validation of her feelings, she went looking for support and sympathy for having them. It's a subtlety that escapes most assholes.

What happened on that one occasion it didn't work?

Well, if a) I actually meant that being old enough to have pubic hair = a green light to frisky times, and b) acted on it, I would say you would be correct.