THANK YOU. it wasn’t very relevant to the rest of the essay, IMO. you don’t have to explain to you too have had body insecurity issues to explain how it’s affected your romantic life.

Floyd, VA. it’s a major tourist town but the town itself only has like 500 people, and around 2-3k in the county.

I told them to bring one if they were cold because I couldn’t control the temp. If they were comfortable in a tank top and shorts, I honestly didn’t even notice — the complainers were the ones who had to go back to their dorm rooms during break to grab a hoodie, no matter what they were wearing. Whether they wore it…

Accommodation policies are generally meant to be temporary — at some point, you might be so overwhelmed that you really need all hands on deck. The last thing you want on one of those days is someone who has clearance to not do a certain duty that needs doing, that pisses people off. She should have started looking…

More likely someone just had a shitty day, saw her doing something else when it was time to inebriate the masses, and complained later to make themselves feel better.

AMEN. The town where my parents live was like this; they’re finally opening their first liquor store in over 20 years after years and years of stonewalling against restaurants and citizens who (completely fairly) wanted access to LEGAL alcohol 15 minutes away rather than an hour away in another county. I honestly…

There would be similarities with the Davis case if Davis had taken the deal initially to let other deputies issue marriage licenses. In which case everything *should* have been perfectly fine at least long enough for them to find new jobs.

It’s not my word choice, this is what I’ve heard (multiple) men say. Actually, that’s their butthurt response to any woman who refuses to let them pay, or doesn’t like them to hold the door, whatever. “Ungrateful bitches”. Seems to be a mantra for sexually frustrated young men everywhere that men will treat women well…

Haha yeah, I met a few other Americans in my years there but only one other true southerner. Now he’s studying in Helsinki, so there must be something that links us! Sometimes the Finnish/Scandinavian dudes would pay, especially the slightly older ones who knew a little more about the world and what I probably…

JFC, that is scary. I dunno how the police are where you live, but if that had happened here I’d have just called the police when she was outside because that’s threatening as fuck. She was probably banging the boss then tried to sue when he abandoned her vagina, because I can’t imagine someone thinking putting you at…

I might have to do with region, I’m in the south. Dudes will be offended though they don’t always act like it, but you’ll hear about it later if that’s the case. They claim it comes off as ungrateful or demeaning. I think it’s one of those things so many guys have had drilled into their heads for so long that a lot of…

You’re not weird, but guys will continue to get offended. I was once like you, hah. Enough offended first dates topped off with going back to school have me back to just letting the dude pay and it seems to be going well.

It’s all about the dude for me. If he’s well off or a traditional type of guy, I’m prepared to pay if something goes wrong (always be prepared, kids) but he’s more likely to be offended if I offer. But if he’s a fellow student, more left-wingy and especially if he’s a self-proclaimed feminist, I offer to go dutch.…

I got fired for being “depressed”, although it wasn’t clinical depression as much as being terrified of one of the shift managers who thought her chef “boyfriend” (they weren’t even official) was flirting with me and threatened to cut my hair off as a result. She’d made my life a living hell for weeks after her…

This may seem like a dumb question, but whenever I’ve tried to donate to women and children’s shelters, either no one has even answered the door/phone, I’ve been turned away as a non-employee, or they would only take part of the donation and said the rest is “too much to bear”. We’re talking canned goods, baby…

One of my friends, at age 30, only had her first full body orgasm in the last year or so. She had a very attentive boyfriend for a time and he showed her all the tricks. We were catching up a few months ago and she’s like....”have you ever been with someone who made your body just rock with pleasure?” and after some…

I think by now he’s in his late 20s, that GIF is Tate and that would have been at least five or six years ago.

I think you’re dead on.

I feel like people expect us to hate our bodies, and when we don’t it’s a shock to the system because this lifelong attitude that’s been ingrained is actually incorrect. Especially when it’s not just that we’re fine with our bodies, but other people are too! Our partners find us sexy, we have healthy and fulfilling…

Nope, not alone.