...have you never seen the shampoo bottles that say specifically “for Nordic hair”?

Don’t you see the similarities here, though? We’re both not what society wants us to be for our genders, we both get marginalized and made fun of if we bitch — women get called Amazons, men get called Napoleon, you get the gist. The battle is not tall women vs short men. Apparently, it’s tall women and short men vs…

You’re not invisible, you just need to refer to us as women instead of females :P “Females” makes us feel more like specimens than we already do.

One positive thing is that if you’re pretty or just turned out for the night, servers and tipsy strangers will ask you if you model.

I put on my New Orleans accent and tell them I did Cotillion. most people have forgotten what it means so they just walk away slowly.

People are surprised at the tiny spaces I can fit into because of my height and breadth. Enough time where you don’t have a choice, and being squished into a coupe with five other people and their luggage is a cake walk if it’s just to get home from the airport.

You know you can remove the headrest, adjust it, or use a pillow to make up the gap space, right? We can’t just saw off our legs.

Yeah, unless everyone’s asleep I’m not afraid to bang on the back of it with my knees trying to get comfortable. If they want to avoid it, seat up.

Old people get a pass too, although I once got seated behind a guy with one of those nasty barely-concealed abscesses on his dome....I felt kind of nauseous and was so happy when he switched places with his wife. Like, I am not hating on melanoma removal or whatever, but please please cover up open wounds when you’re…

For older people, those who are sleeping on transatlantics, etc, I get it. I’ll recline too and we’ll deal. But I’m sorry, if you’re 5”2 on a 2 hour flight, or you’re just trying to find a way to amuse your kid, please glance behind you before reclining.

lololol yep. let them go dry their tears on imaginary dollar bills!

Clearly money can’t buy class tho.

They really do. Anna Merlan will at least edit her articles or provide more sources if people point out an error, but she’s the only one I’ve seen do that without being snarky.

Is there any particular reason you think he’d be upset, is it intuition, or is it just a societal pressure thing? To be honest, in a lot of hetero cases, women do the proposing, men just do the gesture.

Nothing wrong with that. You do you.

I can see myself proposing to someone more easily than the other way around, and because that would be such a huge moment, I know anything I do will be pretty over the top. I’m gonna be that bitch that guys hate for raising the bar so high. Cause if I’m gonna ask, I’m gonna be damn sure of the answer already.

And if someone asks to switch your aisle seat out, so help them, they are trying to hunt in the sacred lands. We already have to do the hip swivel, don’t take away our socially acceptable place for the knees or ankles to go.

Yeah, my fondness for Clover Hope is waning now. Kara Brown still wins the “A for Effort” medal in the opresh olympics though.

See, I’m 5’9 AND shy AND I happen to love really funky fashion and shoes and makeup. I can deal with looks and that passing-by-walking-compliment, but sometimes people use it as a segue into conversation with me and it’s like uhhh....I like lace and parasols and embroidery....and bread, do you like bread? Nevermind,…

Pissing on our grass isn’t gonna make yours any greener.