yeah

In fairness my mother also think that smoking on the street, having tears in your stockings and red lipstick are also sure signs that any given woman is clearly on the game.

I have a friend from grad school who, right after graduating, married a dude who heavily pursued her, and now she's this kept woman/hausfrau living in Modesto, California. Her social media presence is SO depressing to me, but I don't want to dump her because I think she's lonely and she'd notice. Her Instagrams are…

When someone wears one of my headlines on an airplane and gets kicked off for the words "grotesque anal sex trend" or "wish feet had vaginas for banging?" emblazoned on their chest, I will absolutely refer to it as vulgar. I know what I'm about, son.

Years ago, I remember reading a LiveJournal post (man, I miss LiveJournal) by a gal who was working as a waitress and had to wait on a guy wearing a shirt that said "Stop screaming, I don't want this rape to turn into a murder."

It's more that they were phased out for awhile, because there was an IUD called the Dalkon Shield in the 1970s that was designed improperly and damaged many women's health and fertility. Depending on when you went to school, you might have gotten information that presented IUDs as a thing of the past - I know I did.…

Side effects are different for everyone, and not related to her age or whether or not she's had sex. Doctors who say that are uninformed and in many cases, don't have appropriate training. Going to Planned Parenthood or any other place that really specializes in IUD insertion can make a big difference. Practice…

That's really good to know. As someone who knows nothing about the book, all I got out of watching the trailer was "holy crap, this is some peak MPDG bullshit." And pretty much zero desire to see the movie.

That's the entire point of Paper Towns, though. Margo's an "empty character" because we're seeing her through Quentin's eyes and he is an unreliable narrator who views her solely as a projection for his romantic fantasies. The ending makes it clear that we are supposed to view that behavior as creepy and wrong.

I know people can have different opinions about books, but the entire point of Paper Towns is how harmful Q's view of Margo is, and how she is not what he thinks she is.

no but I did

1. Get mistaken for a female prostitute
2. Got 2nd degree burns form a pop tart
3. Hit Tony Hawk in the face with a poster.
4. Made national news for swearing at BYU
5. learned how to make home made reeses

so i mean, i've got my list of accomplishments too

Damnit, now I'm curious. Debunking the MPDG for young men seems like a critical PSA.

Just came here to say the exact same thing! I think John Green is often misinterpreted and while he is by no means the world's best author, and he would be the first to tell you that I'm sure, he is very aware of the tropes of his style and often writes against them. Unfortunately, some of his audience haven't got…

I'm 27 and don't read a lot of YA books, but I read Paper Towns a few months ago because I'd heard about the movie being made and wanted to be ahead of the curve, I guess. I really liked it, and while it's no Perks of Being a Wallflower, it was still really worthwhile. Some people hate the ending, but I loved what…

Okay, so, I actually find it pretty frickin' weird that, after that long conversation with the customer trying to explain how heat works, in which the customer had asked about getting drinks iced, the barista didn't clarify whether or not the customer wanted it hot or iced. Yes, the customer was dumb, yes she should…

And some people are just morons. A lot of gentiles I know get kosher turkeys for Thanksgiving because while they know nothing about kashrut itself, they think they're somehow "better" - so I wouldn't put it past someone to call and ask for a kosher ham for Easter or any other occasion. The Greenwich Village location…

A walk-in 40... I'm crying. I'm crying for the server. I'm crying for the host and bussers who had to put that table together. How does a group of 40 people not have a single person in it that says MAYBE THIS IS A BAD IDEA AND MAYBE THIS IS RUDE.

Aaaand now I'm hungry.

This picture basically sums up American media. Show all the gore you want. Gouge out eyeballs. Have open wounds gaping on screen. But for the love of God, don't let anyone see that he has a penis.

Custer's Revenge is so bad that it literally made me gasp the very first time I saw/heard it. Not the good kind of gasp the developers intended either. Everything about it seems like something a guy on death row would write on a napkin before he knows the time for the possible last minute pardon has passed, and he is…