Hoping our generation of old Millenials/young Gen Xers will start more of this, as older women speak up against the way less confident younger women are treated at work (not to say all young women lack confidence, but this thread is proof that many do), which I think will go a long way to hopefully some sort of…

Not in everyday life, no. At work I can’t think of any specific instance, though my previous job had a sexist boss. He never did anything to *me* but certainly other women in that company had complaints.

I feel like it’s OK if it’s Dad, ‘cause it’s Dad. It’s about the parent-child (and a teen is still a child) relationship, not the MAN PROTECT WO-MAN thing.

Anyone else though and...urgh

Really accurate - especially in how the people who always start the fight are the conservative “I saw an ISIS at the store” / “I’d like to give thanks to our governor for not letting those dirty refugees in” douche tsunami relatives, and yet those same relatives are always the ones who get the most offended.

1.) You really don’t think that on the bar/club scene in even a mid-size city, or on the various dating apps and sites, that the same guys don’t keep popping up? They do.

2.) It worked fine for me. I’m married now, but it was fun while it lasted.

3.) You can tell. If you’re clearly showing you’re not getting anywhere…

Doesn’t matter. The world is tiny and unless you are in New York or something, you may think you’re anonymous but you’re not as anonymous as you think. I live in a city about the size of Chicago - it’s not in the USA but I’m not in an expat bubble. Even here...word gets around.

Girls hanging out swiping on Tinder…

...right after, haha. How about during? Back in my single days, if I could tell partway in that I was basically a vagina-shaped fucksponge to him, I had no problems being all “stop right there, this isn’t working for me, gtfo/I’m leaving.”

If someone sees me as a place to blow their load and isn’t interested in a…

...because people talk and if you want to keep getting invited over to hook up, you gotta bring the goods. If the other person doesn’t care about your pleasure, and it’s even a moderately small city where people know each other, eventually nobody’s going to want to hook up with you, because they know they aren’t going…

Of course! One of my best friends has extremely tightly curled hair. She’s half Persian but looks super white (Persian also being Caucasian basically, but she really looks European white). But yeah, there’s still this idea that straight hair = white people hair = good hair vs. curly hair = non-white hair = bad hair.…

Because magazines promote a Eurocentric (that is, white) beauty standard and “curls” are not considered “white” (although they totally can be).

A friend of mine had a doozy: “It’s a good thing you look like you do, you’ll always know that boys who like you aren’t just interested because of your looks.”

My mom is OK but my grandma (rest in peace):

It was the 90s, shiny satin button-up shirts were in. I try one on in Macy’s with Grandma. “I’m not buying that for you, it shows every roll you have!” (I was not fat at the time, but I have never been thin, at my thinnest I have a solid core).

Years later, “Are you going to…

I want these earrings

To be fair Bourdain has said that about Ina Garten himself - “if Ina does a roast, you know it will be done correct” or something to that effect.

I hear the Glutenberg bibles are worth a lot of money.

I am somehow physically or psychologically unable to get some names and words right. I still can’t remember which one is Colin Farrell, which one is Colin Firth and which one is Conan O’Brien, whom I pretty commonly call Colin Farrell. Sometimes I mess up Will Ferrel and Colin Farrell. They’re not even remotely the…

I would honestly tell him that - not after he’s said something but at a neutral time, either face-to-face or in a letter. Tell him it’s getting to be too much, you respect that he has the right to his views*, but he’s becoming hard to be around, and ask him to please leave politics out of future discussions: no…

“Discourse Analysis for English Teachers” and I’d prefer not to be.

apple soda cut with seltzer (to make it a bit less sweet) with rum, Grand Marnier and cardamom bitters.

Sometimes Louis C.K. - “Yes, of course, but maybe”, the story about fucking with the guy in his apartment complex who thought he was some hobo who’d gotten into the private courtyard, the whole “you don’t get to decide if you’re an asshole...it’s not up to you” - they’re not the usual single/married/parents/foreigners…