Samantha Bee's place in all of this is interesting, especially given the last few paragraph's on female correspondents' attractiveness. She's nice-looking, but not pretty by any sort of average tv standard—the standard that, say, Olivia Munn fits quite well.

@FrabjousDay: How does that work, procedurally? Do you literally just make chamomile tea and run it through your hair?

@ginaromarienne: um...yeah. if you can "understand" why your sex partner "would think" something you're doing is rape, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

@clevernamehere: I don't think she was suggesting finding "someone who signs up just for the money"—I think she was suggesting finding someone who explicitly prefers an open relationship.

"It's not that we don't love our wives or our families; we just like being with multiple women."

@Tequila Mockingbird: WILLOW OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES.

It took until college, when I spent 95% of my waking hours living with the same several women, for me to have a "group" of friends. I've always been a "best friend" girl—with at most, one or two close friends and then some friendly acquaintances. I DID NOT have groups of friends.

My senior year of high school, I took an after-school job tutoring an eighth-grade girl in her family's apartment. The first time I met the family, which consisted of the girl, her father, and her fourth-grade brother, her father asked me—in front of his children—whether I had a boyfriend. His tone was oddly serious,…

@suiterkin: ME TOO. It's stunning how many news sources struggle with that distinction. It makes no sense—you can HEAR the difference when you SAY THE WORDS.

@missteenwordpower: half-CENTURY-old, rather.

@SDraper: '50s. By which, I guess, I mean medium-sized, and of medium perkiness? And I have never even SEEN boobs like the '60s type—those blew my mind. Apparently I missed out on an education, not subscribing to a half-decade-old porn mag.

@Sukie: mrteenwordpower enlisted my best friend in the ring-buying process—she came with him to the store and everything. I recommend this process heartily.

This argument about men buying whatever women want gives me a small bummer. My engagement ring is a sapphire that I love, and that was chosen with a lot of thought and consideration, but I was not involved. I had no idea a proposal was coming. We both studiously avoided the word "marriage" for years. And if it HAD…

I actually completely understand where she's coming from. I don't have a perfect body and I'm far from obsessed with it, but I only just got okay with it—the idea of the changes it's going to undergo having children frankly terrify me. Pregnancy and birth are huge changes to your body that happen extremely…

@HidingInCanada: mine too! with no conceivable "future" to look forward to, everyone fell into despair.

@Scout: That assumes that we all have the means to pay "rent" for our sperm. Or are you advocating that poor people refrain from reproduction altogether?

Standardized spelling is a relatively new phenomenon in English anyway—remember reading colonial letters in social studies? People spelled their own names differently from page to pate.

Bras are pretty miserable in the heat. When possible, I opt for camis with bras built in.

..."girlfriend" is too informal, but "sidekick" is okay?

I love the assumption that "women's fashion" should = "attractive to men".