once again a Cards game is tarnished by an infield fly.

Wow. Holy shit. Thank you for sharing this with us. My deepest sympathies go out to you. You must be in so much anguish! I know from experience that a bad relationship can make you feel unworthy of love, and of help. But that's just not true. No one in the world deserves to be hurt and manipulated by their partner. No…

I can't stop following this story, in large part because I am in a similar situation. After touching me inappropriately- not often but often enough- throughout 9 years of marriage- the straw finally broke the camel's back when my husband punched me in the face 6 weeks ago. Up until then it was things like what…

The only times you should physically control someone's body is if they are about to be hit by a train, or you are preventing your toddler from running headlong off a roof. Two adults sitting at a table? NO. Unless Nigella is secretly made of helium, was about to shoot through the roof, and the release valve is in her…

I know; I'd be the first to rip it to shreds if it actually existed. The internet is such a sinister place when it comes to cutting people down; I don't condone that at all.

I would agree, except that Yelp is abused by aggressive people trying to destroy others, and I could see that happening here too.

Who ever said "not having a job" = "not doing anything?" People have hobbies, they volunteer, and they do other things that they don't get paid for or have to do. Most people would ideally just do whatever they wanted if they had the money. They'd invest in their hobbies and maybe become great at something because…

I guess I'm not most of us, but that's not too surprising to me. I was out of work for a while too, from last October until this March after a section-wide layoff, and the unemployment insurance, combined with a lack of 35 mile each way commute and the lower gas cost that resulted, covered my rent and basic…

I whole heartedly disagree. I was out of "work" for a year. I had enough in the bank to survive (you know, emergency funds, etc.) and loved every minute of it. I would wake up every day, and do research. I can spend 18 hours a day behind a computer, learning. That is my ideal of heaven. Providing value to…

I know exactly what I'd do if I ever won the lottery: teach at an underserved school. Heck, I could probably get away with doing it now, financially speaking and it'd be a helluva lot more mentally and socially rewarding than the IT job I have now.

*lame high five*

Amen! I was going to point that out myself. They weren't asking 30 year old women about friends with 20 sexual partners. They were likely asking 18 year olds, and at 18 20 partners is no easy thing to rack up. I generally don't make a point of asking my friends how many sexual partners they've had, but the girls I…

I know many people who get laid more than your average lady, and they are not ultra fashionable. If anything, it is the guys' gal that gets all the dudes. Jeans, tshirt, throwing back a cold one with the fellas? She isn't going to have to go bark up fifty trees on a dance floor for a squirrel tonight. She's already…

I've only slept with one person. And I'm married to him.

Eh, I think that part of the explanation might lie in the idea that an 18 or 20 year old with 20 partners is out of the normal range for women. Lots of hook-ups is associated with lots of drinking and partying and women might be reacting to that image—the out-of-control party girl—more than to the simple idea of…

I know it was largely tongue-in-cheek, but it seems odd to write an article bemoaning the broad generalizations faced by women who sleep with lots of people and then make broad generalizations about women who sleep with lots of people (even if they're positive.) Prudes can crack jokes and lend a sympathetic ear. Sluts…

This very thing has been happening to commenters all over GM.

I don't get the comment system promotion at all and their shitty explanation is shitty. I'd been commenting on gawker sites for years under various names (even back when they had to approve you first). Then I was grey. Then I was black. Now I'm grey again. I give up; I don't even give a shit anymore. Especially of…

Something weird happened to me today too. So my posts on Jezebel always post grey, needing to be promoted, but on Gawker I used to post black right away and were always near the top of the page, even when they hadn't been promoted. But today, all my comments posted gray and when I went back to the articles to see…

THANK YOU for posting this. I don't know what the heck is up. I was given non-gray status pretty quickly after I started posting on the site and then last week, for no apparent reason (and none I can think of), I was suddenly banished back to the gray. I don't understand it at all since I am a hardcore feminist and…