My aunt and uncle always hit up Costco for boxes of regular- and/or king-sized Halloween candy. Their neighborhood is super into Halloween (like, "dry-ice displays on the lawn" into it) and chock full of kids, so not only did I get to do some awesome trick-or-treating there, I also got to begin and end my evenings…

@I believe in peace, bitch: I think the advice about your first time being with someone you truly like is useful. I know a lot of people (which isn't to say all people) with first-time stories that were miserable because they weren't with someone who was invested in their pleasure, or because they wanted to "get it…

Open letter to Kate Harding:

@Lizard in the Wires now with even MORE metal in the face!: Seconded on Giles. Serious, knowledgeable, fatherly, and not-so-secretly completely badass. #menontv

I don't know if I agree with this characterization of Betty. While no-sororities-at-Bryn-Mawr misstep hurts, the character we've watched for almost three years is, to me, much more than a throwaway Quote Sorority Sister Unquote. I agree that she's cold, but I think that's the most interesting thing about her—her…

THANK YOU. I ranted essentially all these points at the television screen throughout the episode last night. I'm not a vegetarian, but I do eat very little meat, and the response I get from people who see me order a veggie burger or tofu fried rice (or whatever) in a restaurant is generally: oh, you're a VEGETARIAN?…

American-ly (or U.S.ishly), I really only speak English, with six years of Spanish and one year of Italian classes rolling around in my head not doing much. I did grow up in southern California, however (where every other street and city has a Spanish name), so I pronounce Spanish well, even if I can't say much with…

@Lizard in the Wires now with even MORE metal in the face!: Seconded. Rachel Maddow can wear whatever the hell shoes she wants (I hear it's converse all-stars under her tv suits, which = the awesome), she is forever hotter than everybody. #ianrobinson

So right-wing women are awesome because they're appealing to this right-wing man? Whose tastes are generalizeable to all conservative men *and* women (they don't—not a one, not even those of Asian descent—like tofu)? That's white male right-wing privilege, in a truly contemptible nutshell.

This argument—about being hopelessly distracted by sexual temptation—doesn't any man find it *insulting*? mrteenwordpower's in a lady-dominated subfield, and I promise, if he couldn't (as a grown-ass man, mind you) manage whatever sexysexy thoughts are bombarding him constantly, he'd be out on his ass, pretty much…

@cate3710: I always assumed outerwear too, and that's what I thought was kind of delightful. She has a dreamy secret, kind of like not wearing underwear under your skirt for the rest of us. #lingeriesaudi

@Raised-byHeathens: I totally put my makeup on naked, with a towel on my head. Otherwise I'd definitely drip sunscreen and whatnot all over my clothes. Then I walk around or make the bed or something in my underwear, so by the time I actually get dressed everything's dry enough not to smear if I'm careful. #lingeriesa…

@J.D.Regent: Maybe she was, but nothing she was actually *doing* gave you a clue either way. She wasn't writhing around, she wasn't making eye-contact with the camera, she was going about her getting-ready routine. Which is what I liked about it—I felt like I was watching an actual person doing actual-person things,…

Wow, that is so much worse than I was imagining. Why does it have to be *threatening*, on top of being sexist? An unsliced sausage, without any weird twine, between boobs would still suggest some sort of goofy (and snacking-irrelevant) sex act, but at least it wouldn't look like it HURTS. #boobs

I don't think the kid's objecting to those displaying "healthy skepticism" of the President, I think he's objecting to the highly exposed and vocal fringe crazies who truly hate him. And especially considering the large number of those crazies draping their hatred in the word of their God, it seems logical to point…

@Snowbunny: I used to be in charge of this in my dorm! I was the Health Services Liaison/"Condom Fairy", and I put them out in bowls in the bathrooms on every floor. I tried to pick good ones, and a variety.

@mscomplexity: That's a lot of hostility toward penises from someone who turned out "normal". Will the one you marry (assuming, perhaps unfairly, that the plan is to marry someone with a penis) be subject to nicer terminology?

I love the idea of oral sex as a "teen sex trend". It's the wacky new thing, like uggs and miniskirts!

@Lizard in the Wires is on Rails: You wouldn't want to encourage comparison to that well-known UGLY PERSON, Drew Barrymore. Look at her. Gross, right?

God, I WISH I was an ancient teenager. mrteenwordpower and I (working on our second and third degrees) are neither married nor baby-having, but we have an awful lot of discussions about auto insurance and laundry for a pair of irresponsible arrested adolescents.