ok - I'm going to date myself here...

AND THAT'S HOW TILDA SWINTON WAS BORN.

Hollywood just doesn't produce over-stylized horror movies anymore. Peter Murphy at his coolest:

Nope, you can decline and send your best wishes! An invitation is not a bill to be paid or a shakedown.

Kelly, this is a GREAT article. Really well-balanced in a way a lot of the wedding articles...aren't.

I was raised with the idea that the only wedding event that "required" a gift is the bridal shower. After that, anything beyond that was a delightful extra. That said, my family is half east coast Italian, half east coast German and we received a hefty chunk of cash as wedding gifts. My husband, who's family is…

I love that he wastes so much time with tough-guy posturing, too. He makes sure we know he'll kick an ass if it touches one of his female possessions, though said possession could save him the trouble by rethinking her tone before it gets that far.

Oh for fuck's sake. I'm a professional in a very small office. I worked my ass off to be able to take three months of (unpaid) maternity leave and we didn't even hire someone while I was gone.

You're right - it's articles like this that drive wedges between men and women. The ladies here are just all getting ginned up over nothing - it's not like hiring discrimination and miserable maternity leave policies aren't endemic in American businesses. If we just didn't mention it, everything would be hunky-dory.

That is completely ridiculous, because maternity leave is a special situation that requires special consideration. First of all, maternity leave is a medical necessity. It is not a woman making a choice to leave her company for no reason - birth is really difficult, and comes with many physical and chemical…

I absolutely can't believe that you are comparing maternity leave with a man wanting to take a backpacking trip.

And yet, somehow, pretty much every other industrialized nation in the world manages it.

Unfortunately for him, unicorns don't have time for his shit.

Who actually showers EVERY DAY. Liars and obsessives, that is who. I mean "most days", sure. But if you can't leave the house until you shower you're not really living.

I like a trashy read, but I could not get into Twilight or 50 Shades because of the writing. Both SMeyer and James overwrite everything. If either book had a decent editor, they'd be 20 pages total. I can put up with a lot of crap, but boring me to death with a plethora of adjectives and adverbs is unforgivable.

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You are like an artist with words. I actually felt myself at your dinner table.

For someone who has never read 50 Shades of Grey and never will, and will only watch the movie if I am VERY drunk with some VERY funny female friends, I have so many thoughts on this!

Dornan with beard is way hotter than without (almost everyone is) but, that said, clean-cut, boring dude in suit TOTALLY looks more like the guy who will jizz his mommy issues all over you and talk nonstop about his fucking contract.

how about button down shirts that are sized according to bra size and waist size? For example instead of my usual large size shirt, it would be 36D / 30.