Ha. If you said something, how on earth could a woman "pretend she doesn't notice that you fancy her" and keep you as her "silent lover" (i.e., friend who is not a lover at all)? Interesting! I'm not speaking for all women, but you seem to be doing a fair amount of speaking for us (and you're dead wrong). Your friend…

The dog is clearly a super chill dog and can tolerate a lot of nonsense, but Christ on a cracker, I hate when parents don't teach their kids how to properly interact with animals and think this kind of behavior is cute. It's not cute, and one day, that dog might get startled or hurt and bite that child. Then it won't…

This column is fantastic and contains great advice, however the comments make me so sad because the guys who could really benefit from this column don't seem to absorb any of the points Dr. Nerdlove makes over and over again.

Women often pretend they don't notice when guys fancy them, which is mostly lies. They do but they also like the comfort a loving friend is giving them.

If you don't have romantic feelings for her, just learn to deal with it and remain her friend, or pull back if your attraction is too much to handle. It's more than likely that if she shared your attraction, you wouldn't just be friends at this point. So you can be fairly sure that she's not into you the same way…

If you don't have romantic feelings for her, just learn to deal with it and remain her friend, or pull back if your attraction is too much to handle. It's more than likely that if she shared your attraction, you wouldn't just be friends at this point. So you can be fairly sure that she's not into you the same way and…

Well, the thing is, simple carbohydrates are bad for you and vegan/vegetarian diets tend to be full of them. I gained a lot of weight when I went vegan because I ate a lot of pasta, bread, and processed vegetarian "meats." (I also baked vegan cookies and cupcakes all the time, which often use obscene amounts of sugar…

I agree. I think they're trying to market to millenials with more "humorous" advertisements (you can see WW's thirst for a viral ad, especially that first one) and they're actively courting the women who want to lose maybe 15-20lbs (like the woman in the "butt" commercial). I don't think it's working, because…

It's working pretty well for me (-20lbs since late October). I don't know what it is, but the patented Points equation has some kind of magic in it. If you follow the program, you will lose weight. I'm not a fan of diets, but WW is generally quite sane and effective. Having to calculate Points for everything I eat…

So, you don't even count calories with Points anymore: You count fat, carbohydrates, fiber, and protein. There's a fairly complex equation to figure out the Points value, but they sell calculators that do it for you, and there's also a crazy equation to determine how many Points you are supposed to eat in a day. The…

The PointsPlus system is the same as it's always been; fat + carbs + fiber + protein. If you eat a food that is very high in fat or carbs, the PointsPlus value goes up; eat a food that is high in fiber or protein, the PointsPlus value goes down. Their new focus on "power foods" includes plenty vegan-friendly items…

No, her family has legitimately been receiving threats from those who claim to support Leelah: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-inter…

Are you trying to miss the point? Harassment or "punishment" or moral retribution does absolutely no good here, and it is not the kind of activism Leelah Alcorn asked for in her letter. I get the moral outrage, but the harassment of this dead child's mother is fucking wrong and reprehensible, and all it does it make a…

I must have missed the part in Leelah's suicide letter where she asked that internet vigilantes harass and threaten her family. Oh wait, she didn't ask that. She asked people to donate to organizations that help trans people. But I guess harassment is the same thing, right? I'm sure it will achieve a lot of positive…

Right, because having your child commit suicide and then specifically call you out in her suicide letter and having to live with that is not punishment enough. Her kid died just a few weeks ago, and is already on the receiving end of some pretty disgusting harassment (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-inter…). If…

No, she has other children, so it will potentially benefit them if she were to become more compassionate and accepting of LGBT people. And it's not like harassing this woman and turning her into an evil villain will do a goddamn thing to help the other trans kids in the world struggling with similar situations at…

Maybe not, but you can't possibly know that. But a great way to ensure that she NEVER learns anything or develops compassion for trans people and maintains her current attitude toward trans issues is harassing her after the death of her child.

Yeah, man. You know what will make a person who doesn't support transgender rights change their tune and see the error of their ways? Being harassed after the suicide of her child. That'll totally work to make her sympathetic to the plight of her trans daughter and trans people all over the world.

What, no Lil Bub? She is FROM space.

Ugh. Volunteerism, compassion for the less fortunate, and philanthropy are great things to teach your children about, year-round. Framing it as a once-a-year, probably one-time event with just a few small acts of service (donating clothes, annoying people for weeks leading up to Christmas with the gift of a piecemeal…