I think there are some misconceptions going on here, and maybe as a female soldier I can help out. You can still braid your hair. Pretty much the only style of braids NOT allowed is the one pictured in the lefthand photo (a.k.a three braids).You can braid/french braid your hair in one or two braids OR you can have…

I'm confused. Under the picture of the braids it says, "must be small". Does that mean that braids are allowed as long as they are small braids and not large ones?

Debbie Downer Alert: My mom died on April Fool's Day. Like for real. Worst prank ever.

This is what happens when politicians, not doctors, practice medicine.

Shit like this is why I bought a door handle with a lock and installed on my bedroom door when I was twelve. I bought it with my birthday money.

April Fool's Day is my birthday so I have suffered years of people making me unwrap empty boxes or purposely bad gifts like a fake dead rat or some shit. Essentially, it is a shitty day to have a birthday.

I cannot stand being pranked, unless it's incredibly obvious that it's a prank, like Google and Pokemon. The whole joke is "ha ha you didn't know something that I went out of my way to hide from you!", and I do not appreciate being intentionally kept in the dark about something and then laughed at because they…

Best part of that linked Neil Degrasse Tyson article:

Things I've said to lesbians on dating sites: "oh, ok, sorry. Good luck!"

Oh, but it is pretty terrible. Of course you can say that because you have no repercussions for behaving that way but you'll be hurting other people.

I feel the urge to paraphrase Miranda Kerr:

I don't think it's being made 'big news', but the fact is the more people are exposed to the idea, the more comfortable they'll hopefully become with it.

Self-defined, unless you're bi, in which case it's based on what everyone else thinks.

The phrase "appreciate the female form" has always been code for 'barf' for me, no matter the gender or sexuality of whoever says it.

All I could think as I read it was "is she trying so hard to be inclusive and cool with gay people that she just isn't willing to say she's straight"? I kind of feel like a lot of people would rather spin a little yarn about how they appreciate all bodies and everybody is wonderful than just say, well, women are fine…

I agree. Her comments here sound way more like she's interested in using another female for her own sexual fantasies, not actually being attracted to other women as human beings (sexuality as a part of then, but not all of them). I'd be totally fine if she said something along the lines of "I think of sexuality as a…

I'm significantly less enthused about Miranda Kerr's desire to "explore" with us, while still really only having sex with men. It doesn't come off as some radical embracing of sexual fluidity, or like she's really even coming out as a Kinsey-1-bi. Straight women using us as accessories isn't liberating, it's…

Paying someone to cut you open and sew you back together in a more aesthetically pleasing configuration is awesome! What's weeks or months in excruciating pain and years in debt compared to being Attractive and Popular?

Agreed. I made a similar comment the other day, but it weirds me out that people here are so pro plastic surgery. This is an industry that makes billions off of exploiting people's (mostly women's) insecurities. Getting surgery isn't like buying a cute dress or getting a haircut. It's dangerous and it's…

Yes, because only mentally ill people attend thetapy, and any suggesting of therapy automatically means that you're actually saying "YOU HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS".