I don't think they identify as female. If they identified as female then it would be apparent in the article and there would be 9 million posts shouting at Laura to use the correct pronoun. Gender-nonconforming girls identify as girls - the younger ones are just called "tomboys" and it's socially acceptable.

Uh, well, they're all guys, so they probably all use the guy's bathroom.

For some reason I don't think you'd be as upset if this was a camp for gender nonconforming girls and heffasaur said "yeaaaaaaaah man!" or "awesome, dudes!" or "good job, guys!"

I think your theory is depressingly dead-on.

Fucking awesome.

As a gender nonconforming girl, it's way easier to get away with just "being a tomboy" for a long, long time. Nobody looks at you weird until you're around 14-16 and then it creeps into "maybe she's a lesbian?" territory. (I turned out to be, but that by no means automatically makes every gender nonconforming girl a…

Exactly. I mean I'm already ripping every sentence I write apart in my head, I really don't want to read the opinions of a bunch of people whose opinions I have no reason to trust and whose tastes I don't know. With friends, it's different - I have a few I can trust to be honest, I know their tastes, and I have plenty…

What is she the victim of, bad reviews?

How would her checking out herself on the Internet prevent her children from doing it? Or do you mean her quitting acting (in which case, that puts quite a different spin on things)?

It's not like you're a schoolkid and these are people you have to be around every day. You are a successful person with a good career. You're giving that up... because people are mean on the interwebs? I don't understand either.

Exactly. Hell, if I ever get anything of note published, I'm not ever going on the Internet again. Why would you actively seek out criticism from people you don't know, whose opinions you have no reason to trust or respect... and then get upset about it?

Then maybe don't.... Google yourself?

Much like this friend of the critic in the story, Stanford tried to recruit me to one of their summer programs. I didn't bother. It seriously seemed like a waste of time as compared to the actual program itself at Stanford.

I don't plan to stop trying, I'm just a bit exasperated. Oh, well. Knowing I can almost-get-there is better than nothing at this point. Again, thanks so much.

Hahaha that's what it is! Please feel free to use the term as much as possible! Spread awareness!

Yeah, discussion with straight lady friends has often revealed that there are times when they are fine with not orgasming, but their partner isn't fine with their not orgasming... which I think is odd, but the fact that it's so much easier for most men to orgasm might contribute to the misconception that Sex Without…

I mean I'm off of it, I've BEEN off of it, but according to a nurse I spoke to, when you're weaned off incorrectly (and I was, I now know), they can affect you for longer or whatever and I just ugh.

Like it's been nearly a year since I was off it, but apparently (according to a nurse?) when incorrectly weaned, as I later realized I was, they can have long-term affects and it's like but I don't want it to! I want to have the possibility of orgasming plz and thank you! I'm not sure if that's medically recognized as…

When I said I slept with women I did NOT say that I was a radfem political lesbian or that I was interested in reading a convoluted, badly-written article detailing the opinions of a radical feminist on vaginal intercourse between a man and a woman and "phallic/non-phallic vibrators."

Part of my issue is inexperience (just realized the post up there makes it sound like I've had quite a few sex partners, which is not accurate) and part of it is that I literally cannot shut my brain off long enough. I can get close, but my brain then switches to something else totally unrelated, like the drapes or…