there's this really great trial objection called "asked and answered." It basically means that just because you didn't like the answer you got the first time, you don't get to ask the same question over and over again looking for a new one. It's a mild form of witness badgering or improper influence. Here, the…

I'm afraid to eat food coloring now for fear that it will kill me instantly. I'm actually not joking on that one. You're exactly right - it's all gonna give us cancer so why not just enjoy ourselves along the way.

All you ladies and gentlemen out there gettin' all riled up about people willing to accept friends who sleep with married partners listen up: You're terrified your partner is currently or will in the future cheat on you or it's happened to you in the past and you're sure it will happen again. Simple as that. Sorry,…

Having a "do not discuss" list is ridiculous. How can you have a true friendship if there are things about your friend's life you refuse to discuss? It will drive a wedge between you. Best to just end the friendship outright if you can't keep your judgeiness to yourself.

aaaaaaalso, T-Swift, I find it a bit irritating that someone so quick to run from the label "feminist" is now accusing other women of sexist comments related to her love life. If you wanna live in a world where you get to date and f*ck who you want without reprisals, why don't you get on the feminism bandwagon and…

I love it when comment-conversations end with a "we agree" rather than name-calling!

I'm just saying that there's a disturbing subtext of smugness and satisfaction that this woman failed in all of these articles and news coverage... very much the sense that "women can't cut it, so why do they even show up?" I'm not saying it isn't noteworthy, but I am saying that there shouldn't be this I-told-you-so…

Anyone else disturbed by the comments by the Director of the Women's Center completely toeing the line? I mean, I guess what matters is that internal policies were influenced by the survey (which, of course, we don't know anything about at this time), but keeping this report under wraps for so many years definitely…

I don't know anything at all about how these tryouts work, but I"m pretty sure that there's a lot of dudes who went, choked, and were dismissed same as she was. And ain't nobody shaking their heads and wondering why those guys showed up. Why is there this overarching sense that women shouldn't even try? Nobody's…

I have visions of a slightly-less-annoying (only slightly) Charlotte York when I read this list. The problem isn't all the things that she wants - I agree with the commenters that suggest that it denotes a high self-esteem to "want it all" - but it's a list an 8 year old could have written. I actually find it pretty…

well, at least you learned something reading Jez ... how to wistfully throw around "strawman" as evidence of your own self-importance and inflated ego. Bored now.

I'm totally into butt play and this article is grossing me out. Yes... grossing me out. Agree 100% with other commenters who said do it if it's interesting, don't if it's not. Ugh....

um, no..... it's an attempt to find out WTF you're talking about. And now that I've seen that this was your first comment on an article EVER, I'm really really curious to know what you're talking about. We all are. Please 'splain.

I turned 33 last month and have started engaging in self-talk that I find much more destructive than my fat-talk ever was. See, when I did the whole fat-talk thing, I still let it go and finally decided that I looked OK when I went out or got dressed for work. Sure, it was probably a limited "this is as good as it…

Yes, yes, we know.... you're soooooo put upon. It's ruhl ruhl tough out there for guys, right? I mean, how are you supposed to have any friends if you have to call out the guys you hang with all the time on their misogynistic ways and deal with the fact that, when you don't, you can't even use your feminist parking…

no... I'm no saint. But I also don't claim to be something and then whine about how it's soooo hard to be that thing when really what I'm doing is making excuses. And if someone I spend time with says things that I find offensive, I don't spend time with that person anymore.

you. are. brilliant.

yeaaaaah I'm not buying this for a damn second. Sorry, but I'm not. The cases where the right thing is hardest are the times where it's most important to do it. And if you're hanging around the kind of neanderthals you describe, then you're pretty much one of them if you don't stand up to them. I get that you don't…

Riiiight. Humor is dead.

:) Fair enough!!!