“ IMO, the only instances when it’s okay to ask passengers to move so that two people can sit together is if there’s a legitimate need (not preference!), like with parents and a young child or if there’s some health issue/disability that will mean that one passenger needs help from their companion.”

Yeah, I mean, if people ask me to switch I will consider if its within the same few rows. Before I fly I literally have to tell myself not to be a bitch. But one time I was seated on my flight, and a couple sat behind me - we were in the back of the plane. A girl walked up and said to the guy, “sorry, you’re in my…

Maybe I’m a heartless bitch but I don’t understand why couples freak out about sitting next to each other. When my boyfriend and I fly, we get to our seats, immediately put on headphones, and close our eyes. I don’t need to be next to him, I spend plenty of time with him in day to day life.

I had a very similar experience. When I started online dating I specifically wanted a relationship, not hook-ups, and I put a lot of work into keeping up on my apps. As a result I didn’t have problems getting dates with nice, normal men, and a few weeks in I met my now-boyfriend, and am so far in my healthiest…

I still maintain that a lot of it depends on your city. I had a great experience on dating apps. *shrugs* 

I feel like this social media freakout is the first step in the massive and destructive unraveling of their coupledom. 

This honestly sounds like a dystopian nightmare and I think I would rather die than ever participate. 

Yep! It made me feel bad which is weird because like...living on your own and taking care of yourself is nothing to feel bad about! It also made me feel bad about being single, which was such an unpleasant feeling! I started to read them again after this one made the Internet rounds, but stopped pretty quickly. 

I know. My friend just moved in with her boyfriend, their rent is the same as my rent...only they both pay their half. -_- We need to end Couple Privilege! 

I used to read them too but what eventually made me stop was how it felt like every single writer was living with her boyfriend, thus all her bills were split in half, and it started to piss me off. I wanted to read about single women, such as myself, who paid for every single bill by themselves. 

I’m a high school teacher and I wrote a Money Diary, but never submitted it. I might now. 

Dude, you’re my age and making twice what I make, and I thought I had it good. That’s a shitload of money for 26. 

I feel like it could go either way. A part of me thinks it is someone messing around, but honestly, I went to a private high school and there are definitely people who live like this. 

I hate that I’m defending Money Diaries, but lo and behold, here we are. I read MD often, and they do generally have a wide range of places and incomes. Yes, its mostly young women in their 20s, but that’s the audience of the site and since its reader-submitted, it probably won’t ever change. Occasionally the editors…

YES. I actually never let my friends use my phone to stalk anyone’s pages because I don’t trust them to keep their fingers off from liking something by accident. 

I really enjoyed the Ehrenreich book, especially when she described what she went through when joining message boards for cancer patients. She said that it was so intense that when she complained, people would actually say things along the lines of “well you’re definitely not going to get better with that attitude,”…

I struggle with it as well precisely because of articles like this. Honestly, it sounds like Kim K is coming at this with a very respectful and sincere admiration for a hairstyle. I fail to see how this is a bad thing, in fact, it just reminds me of segregation. 

This happened to me. I had a small bank account that I wasn’t using, and when I went to close it out and transfer the money, they had been deducting $10 a month for about a year and a half. It wasn’t like I had lost my life savings, but it sure was annoying that I had just lost a chunk of money for pretty much no…

I listen to a feminist podcast and one of their ongoing topics is Facebook’s bizarre policy in regards to what is and isn’t appropriate to post. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first but I started to see real examples of posts that were taken down compared to posts that are allowed to stay. Its REALLY weird. FB…

I don’t switch seats unless there’s a child involved and it isn’t a huge hassle. I do not switch seats for adult couples who aren’t next to each other. You’ll see each other in a few hours, I’m sure you’ll survive.