When I was in middle school, sex ed was tracing an outline of a life size person on two pieces of paper; keeping one and switching the other one with the boys group, then we had to label all the bits. My contribution to the male one was drawing a blue line across the brain and saying 70% water... I was a bit behind,…

I NEVER smiled till I was 17... that's why braces were invented, to stop young girls from flashing those immoral teeth, and tongues! My god, so scandalous, I'm having vapors at the mere thought..

(This was supposed to be short, sorry! I had memories I felt the need to add to the discussion as I was typing)

Me too! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one... all the 'late bloomer; 14, 15' comments happened when I was at school and it was always so awkward because everyone knew, well, assumed right(very small school) that because I was tall and skinny with no boobs that I hadn't gotten it yet. Puberty hit just before 17; and…

Australian Federal Governmental policy and State policy and the Scientific community all have different ideas of good water management practices unfortunately. My State suffers because other states use the majority of our 'allocated' river water before we ever see it, which has been proven to lead directly to farmers…

That sucks. I know lots of women don't like it because of the lack of eye contact, or they feel it isn't a respectful position, which is unfortunate. And then sometimes bits just don't work that way.

It's not just short for it; it's used in the same manner as the N word. We don't use and historically haven't used the N word here, you would never hear anyone of any colour say it in a public setting. It's just a case of different cultures and different historical aspects for each country

Awesome, thank you, I will definitely have a look. I love weird assignments. It's the best way to get them to actually put in effort half the time.

Um, do you know what that means? Or are you repeating some joke you've heard, because No, never let that come out of your mouth/fingers. Same as the N word. That's right, you just put yourself on the same level as Bieber..

I would mirror other commenters, as an Australian, (slightly more politely) and just let you know that the reason we don't want this wastage in even 'unlivable' areas is that most of our desert communities and nomadic people rely on underground water that can be unintentionally contaminated due to the dumping. Also,…

So I don't normally post my personal weight stories because otherwise all I'd do was go on about being confused about how my body hates diets, but YES. For once, something is clearly applicable to me! I worked in a place where food was cooked for me, breakfast and lunch, and I had no choice over what it was; language…

Oh my goodness, I loved loved loved showing that article to all the first semester anthro students that came in. We would stick it in their reader to have read for the first discussion/debate and let them go the whole tutorial without telling them. Especially brilliant for us as we aren't America, but are a Western…

Not really; I grew up in a desert town (actual desert, not the texas variety) I suffered second degree burns after 4 hours sunscreenless because I lost it once. So all the kids had it, it was crucial for some of our survivals, a day in that tsun unprotected could have killed us. It was a common thing, always around,…

Yeah, me and my siblings got the stranger talk about men AND women. If any woman had grabbed at me like that as a child I would have started screaming "NO DONT TOUCH ME THERE YOU CANT TOUCH ME THERE HELP"... see how 'irresistible' they are to you when that happens...

Just on that point; make up can take sizes off. I'm a former dancer, and for shoots, performing under lights and video we have different make up on the face AND body. Depending on the type of dancer you are (I didn't do exotic, but don't have anything against it) you can take off the waist, add to the boobs and hips…

They did an interview recently where they explained that it was a message for all of the young teen girls who were having sex and winding up with diseases because they were so young and not gay men, no one thought to warn them or they didn't think it was applicable to them. As the other commenters have said, it seems…

Her behaviour, what? Running a multi million dollar business, herself as the product, while still having the time/energy to maintain a body that she is probably extremely proud of and still recording/singing/performing? If that's the behaviour of a shallow middle school mean girl, no wonder they teased me, I must've…

Aren't her performances of her experience honest though? I mean, I perform a range of sexxxy songs sometimes up to and including suicidal songs other times, to talk about my experiences of loving an abuser. I wouldn't be able to truly sing anything else. And I see that reflected a lot in Ri's lyrics; by all reports…

I feel really bad about those comments, because they were my new love after yesterday doing a countdown of their most influential black artists on an Aussie talk/news program with little singing accompaniments and re telling where/how they first felt. And it was a really sex positive interview too! All 'we (black…

I don't think this will get seen this late in the day, but hopefully you, the author will see this, and know that I have read every single comment and am personally as disappointed in this as I would be if you were shaming women for their vaginas. Think of the pain and anger you feel when you are personally shamed or…