I think that taller girls get ignored in the good ol’ height debate, which is a shame. I get that it can be annoying for men to be told by a person 5'6" or shorter that they want someone over 6 foot, but what about us tall girls! I’m 5'9" and was tall my whole life, so it wasn’t until my junior year of high school…

SO EXCITED about new Vivian Girls!!! 

The way you put this makes a lot of sense. I like it. I never thought about the traffic light system in this way but I agree. I don’t like the idea that if I have a slice of cake one night, I have failed or I am weak. Marking foods as bad or shameful is precisely what leads to disordered eating. 

Yeah, I think it can be really hard to balance between encouraging people to eat right, and delving into disordered eating. I think our problem is that so much of our modern history is based on “being skinny is not only healthy but also makes you a better person in general,” like, we see being skinny and restricting…

I am confused with all of this because I could have sworn I read an article, maybe it was even another Salty Waitress, that was bashing customers for talking to bartenders while they’re trying to work. I don’t get why bartenders care if I’m on my phone. 

Hard same :D 

I really hope that one day I have a girl just so I can deal with remarks like this. My partner is the most calm, cerebral, bookish person I know - the thought of him brandishing a shotgun is hysterical.

My mom (she has one boy and me, a girl) always said that as soon as my brother started dating she always made sure to be kind and respectful no matter what, because the girlfriend (and eventually wife) will always be number one. She would say “no mother is going to win that fight against a girlfriend” lol. She just…

Weird. Every time I say that I want girls, moms are always like “well you will definitely have your hands full.” 

“The gendering aspect is also really interesting. Especially since this is happening at the same as people becoming more aware of trans and non-binary people and, it would seem, like we were moving away from such a gendered and binary approach to parenting which as you mentioned is incredibly damaging. But it’s also…

I just saw the movie last night and LOVED it! Really enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I felt it was so sympathetic to Sharon Tate, really showing how she had talent as a comedic actress and such a promising future. I loved the friendship between the two leads and of course the hero dog! Really enjoyed it. 

And then the weird part is that a lot of people say that about girls too. So its almost like babies in general will cause you to have “your hands full.”

I’m a high school teacher and THANK YOU. It helps so much when parents are realistic and understand their kids. We are all on Team Student. We all want the student to succeed. When I met parents who were like “yeah, my kid messes around, they’re lazy, they need to be told sternly what to do” I would be like “alright,…

This is insane. There is nothing worse than women hate any girlfriends their sons have and think they’re number one. Its sad. 

This is nauseating and I cringed while reading this entire (well-written) article.

Hey I just want to thank you for writing this comment. I’ve been with my partner for a year and a half and it has been awesome. But lately all the “WE’RE ENGAGED!” social media posts have been making me weirdly feel bad, and starts making me feel insecure like “why am I not engaged?” Even though I don’t particularly…

I think this is why so many people don’t “believe” in allergies. My parents are kind of like this. They are not allergic to anything, and neither my brother nor I are allergic to anything. So they kind of err on the side of “people are exaggerating/faking.”

Yikes, that sucks. I also get migraines from strong perfumes and colognes. If I had to work in that environment I would quite literally have a debilitating migraine every single afternoon. 

This is truly an incredible picture. 

This is sooooo common in our culture and it is really messed up. I hear from so many women who talk about how they were dangerously dieting and miserable at their skinniest, and it is also when they received the most compliments on how great they looked.