Also, fun anecdote: my best friend was a member of Tri-Delt, which was the "pretty girl" sorority at Emory. My friend absolutely did not give a fuck and used her sorority membership for free booze and to scout cute guys. She took me as her "date" to her semi-formal because she didn't feel like bringing a dude. It was…

I got a scholarship. It's a good school.

True! My 2.5 year old loves bananas over all other fruit because they have cuter stickers. Which she takes off the banana and sticks on her 6 month old little sister. I am constantly peeling banana stickers off fat baby thighs. It could be worse.

I just snorted at my desk.

I also went to a southern university (Emory), coming from a Northern-type upbringing. In my freshman year of college, I was fairly naive. I believed that the only people who could possibly be interested in joining the Greek system, i.e., paying for "friends" to judge you and police your behavior, would be the lamest…

I'm going to just go ahead and say that I don't think Lindy's post was "problematic" either, a word I'm coming to hate with a fervor I reserve for "privilege".

Yeah, I don't say anything against the pink stuff to her. I mean, she's 2, what does she know? And yes, I recognize that she's going to be who she's going to be.

I just posted about this. I also have a 2.5 year old girl and she demands pink princess crap all the time, despite my best efforts to keep her away from it. I just don't know how it happens.

Uuuugggh, gross. That's just terrible.

Exactly! Also, you can win any comment thread with DB dancing in the big suit.

Slightly OT, but: I have a 2.5 year old. For much of her life she has worn gender-neutral clothing, though she now wears some dresses. There is a moratorium on the pink clothing she's allowed to have, and every few months we do a "pink cull" to get rid of some of the pink crap that's accumulated by virtue of her…

We did this too. Or at least, we tried to. As other commenters have said, we got lots of yellow and green stuff and then people assumed our daughter was a boy. Which, you know, all babies sort of look like fat old men, so whatever. But what really got me was all the people who KNEW we were trying to go gender neutral,…

After a breakup I always lost like, 10 to 20 lbs in sweat and anxiety and grief. Always. You could tell I was happy because I was plump; if I was gaunt, it was because my heart was broken. Extreme emotional distress continues to be the only way I've ever really lost weight fast (NB: not worth it, I'd rather be fat and…

I agree with this. Although I don't think that Bush = Assad, I think that generally speaking the US is very bad at enforcing international law. See, e.g., Serbia/Croatia/Kosovo, where we tried but generally failed to avert genocide or Rwanda/Burundi, where we didn't even really try. It's nice to think we an avert…

These aren't normal frat guys. In college I avoided frat guys like they had the herp (because, uh, they had the herp). I think that guy is kind of cute, but I also really like his sign and what he's doing. So that's the would date part.

Please oh please, let this work. It would alleviate (potentially) the suffering of so many people in other countries.

Sigh. Really? We're clearly talking about civilians vs. combatants here.

And here I called it an invasion. It was. Also an intervention, but yes — an invasion. I fail to see your point.

Would date.

Did I say it's OK? I don't think I did.