You mean you don’t get to drive to the bookstore. Spending time in bookstores is a feature, not a bug.

Check your account settings and make sure you have the correct email address to get memos about which women we all hate all at once for some reason.

His attitude that this was all normal and no big deal was definitely a huge part of the abuse. Making women question their own sense of reality and normality was one of the things he liked.

I did once tell a man who said, “What can I do to make you smile?” that, “You can stop telling women what to do with their face.”

I live in urban SoCal. Can confirm that ~80% of the dogs in the local shelters are pit bulls and chihuahuas.

I’m trying to give you a star, but Kinja is being Kinja.

As a librarian, thank you so much for this. People get so angry at us. And...more people have mold, mildew, and bugs in their books than many realize.

I don’t like the Boy Scout politics, but I was envious of the Boy Scouts as a kid because they actually seemed to go camping and hiking sometimes, whereas I was in Girl Scout troops in two different states where we only ever did indoor craft projects.

As a Girl Scout, I just wanted to go camping, and we never even so much as hiked. All we ever did was hot glue sequins and feathers to things. I don’t believe we ever went outside for any reason. I quit after 2 years of that nonsense.

“Swedish Death Cleaning” just sounds so metal. I like the title. Essentially every woman I know over the age of 50 seems to be engaged in this process anyway, because that appears to be the age that your mother, MIL, grandmother, family friend realizes they have accumulated a lifetime of possessions, and they do not…

900 sq.ft. would be a pretty large mortgage in my neck of the woods. Because it is not woods, but a city. :(

For right now I am saving up for a down payment for a house or condo. However, in my dream future, where I have a yard (like a Rockefeller or something!), I would buy one of the <$10,000 models to plop down in it for an art studio/office.

I am a hugger with friends, but there are very few times I have ever hugged a coworker, even ones I am close to. Those were situations where like, someone’s father had died, and I was friends with the person outside work.

-undetermined (rando out in public)

The entire world is primed to believe you, and disbelieve women, so you really don’t have much to fear if you aren’t sexually harassing people. So don’t. Sure, you can’t stop sociopaths from framing you for things you didn’t do, but if a sociopath has decided to ruin your life, they’d probably frame you for theft or…

I can concur, male librarians tend to get paid more than female librarians.

I already throw a party, so when you count food and decorations, it’s getting up there. I don’t spend $1,000, but I easily could. If I had Angelina Jolie money I would full on throw a Halloween Ball every year for way more than that.

I was disappointed how low that Halloween budget is. I would spend so much more than $1,000 on Halloween if I had Angelina Jolie’s money.

Last week was the first I had ever heard of it, but apparently it was known by many.

Interesting, I do barefoot running, and I tend to walk on the balls of my feet, and when I started going to the gym with my husband, I was so weak on most things, except on calf-raises, where it was like that scene from Unbreakable when they are trying to find an upper limit to Bruce Willis’ strength.