This may be tangential but when I was a kid, I was taught to just always be appreciative of kindness from others no matter what form it took. My grandmother used to make me hideous clothes and give me old weird dresses. I would wear them for her and go out in public and I had no problems. It made me happy just to…

The way this is set up, its not even a celebration anymore. You may as well sell tickets to a wedding rather than invite someone. I wouldn't consider attending anyone's wedding if they charged me $300 (per person) to be there. That would be $600 for my husband and I. That's just absurd, rude and tacky as all get…

I'm with you. I've been to several weddings for my best friends and even helped out at the events. I was actually given a gift for my help and told explicitly NOT to give a gift. I've never encountered any one of my friends expecting me or anyone else to pay for our plates. This honestly seems like some kind of…

As a woman, I've found that meeting male celebs goes over far differently than female celebs. I used to work at a high end hotel that had several celebs so I met quite a few and some of them are just awful awful horrible people. Their egos.... Some are also incredibly normal and down to earth (though far fewer). …

This seems like a juvenile response to the 90s high-waisted jeans revisited trend. They can't really commit to mom-jeans as being awesome so they have to make them they're own by slashing them into the denim underwear. It won't be long before the Regina George nipple cut-out tee shirts start showing up.

I saw the reference to DAWG. Par chance are you a fellow Husky? Do you also work in research?

If I had married someone in my college 1.0 experience, I would have been lulled into a life of awful. Thankfully, I moved far away from that wretched state, had several crazy jobs, moved to yet another state and another state and then when I was a withered old 25, I married my best friend. I was one of the younger…

Yea, I cringe but I too read of advances made from the barbaric experiments. This is not to justify what happened or to suggest that it was a great thing for modern science. These "experiments" were against the people's will and had absolutely no beneficence towards them whatsoever. They were cruel torture. …

The idea that women and minorities vote simply because a candidate looks like them is offensive. Why do politicians not get that?! If a rich white man passionately supported my feminist ideals but a Mexican woman was opposing them, I would NOT vote for her. In fact, I'd probably judge her more harshly for being so…

I'm in my mid-30s and probably in my late 20s I realized that my parents both held some questionable views about race. My mother is Hispanic but she's pretty anti-Mexican immigration. (there's an entire class thing going on in her mind). Odd considering, her father was besties with Cesar Chavez and my mom babysat…

oh gawd! The rapey song! Could they make the women any less like individuals? They might as well just use freeform vaginas since that's basically what this song is about. We're going to fuck you no matter what. We know what you want more than even YOU do.

I think you're right about the youth element. I went out a few times with a PUA idiot and I actually kept wondering WHY I was still going out with him. He sporadically negged me and did weird confusing things, which in my youth, I tolerated far longer than I needed to but I was still figuring shit out.

My first experience with a PUA asshat was so confusing. He negged me a bunch of times and they made no sense. They were just confusing statements. I remember we were outside and everything was okay and then out of nowhere, he said, "Why are you such a total bitch"? I was so taken aback, that I just stood there…

Gross. This thing about personal space reminds me of this dude at my gym. He tried to join my all-female boot camp class and while in our class he made remarks about our breasts and constant sexual comments. He'd also condescend us all and talk to us like we were children. It was so off-putting and ridiculous. …

Recently have been converting to grain-free (not Paleo) and at first it seems pricy to purchase so much almond flour but now I just buy the sliced blanched almonds in bulk and blend them in my food processor. Some with quinoa flour. I haven't endeavored to make almond milk but it seems like sometimes the seemingly…

Classic permissive parenting.

Actually citations usually include more recent research rather than antiquated back-catalogs. A female Ph.D. can directly choose her subject of inquiry so she has full control over the topic and how the study is conducted. So long as the IRB approves of what and how she studies it, she's golden. IRBs are also…

Speaking the gospel there. I honestly had no idea that what I experienced in Idaho wasn't the norm. Calling anything in Idaho pro-choice or woman-friendly is an assault on the English language. For years I was absolutely terrified of having sex with anyone. Idaho will make you abstinent. After leaving the state…

As someone who actually experienced rape in Idaho and had to attempt to utilize their services, I can tell you that what you just said is 100% wrong. Women do not have equal access to emergency contraception or abortion. Some of us are forced by the state to beg our rapist to help us out if we want to end the…

Its true though. It doesn't really matter how someone "feels" about the sentiment when in fact, if you're not okay with the probability of getting pregnant, maybe sex isn't for you. Sex is great but unless you're adequately educated on how to reduce incidence of STIs and prevent pregnancy, you have no business…