Hey there, you look pretty good there in standard Kinja,..come here often?

I don't know how much men actually check for a ring. I think I've gotten hit on more WITH my ring than without. (Maybe they're hoping it will be more of a secret one night stand sort of thing?)

Why hello there.. *sweeps hair back* Can i buy you a drink?

If it makes you feel better, fewer than three people have hit on me in the ten years since I stopped wearing it.

A little intense for my age but I can get for my girls and borrow

I'd probably be a pretty good parent. I love kids. I work well with kids. I'm a pretty maternal person. But I have zero desire to have one. I really like my life and the freedom to do whatever I want, whenever I want. I also probably couldn't afford a child. Parenting is also a fuckload of work.

TRUTH! When people ask if I'm going to start a family, I say "I don't know.." in this very apologetic tone, like I'm excusing my ambivalence for....who? Me I guess. Fuck. That. Noise. I will HelenMirrenIT from now on. BLAMMO!

Uncle-hood is awesome. Can't see why anyone would want to downgrade.

I didn't transfer my genetic material to anyone. BRB just gonna kill myself now real quickly, ok?

People often ask what the meaning of life is. The answer is Children.

I hear ya, sister. I had some "so what's wrong with me" issues for a while. I finally concluded that even if that's true (that something's missing in my psyche) then so be it. I yam what I yam.

I appreciate it. It's a neglected narrative in our culture that some women never really feel the biological clock tick because we don't care that much about having kids. I mean, I'm in my 40s, I like kids a whole lot but my only urge to have one was born more out of societal pressures (how to fit in with peers) than a…

Did Paltrow really just compare mean internet comments to being in a war???

I think I took your reply in the spirit it was intended: that for a lot of older people, they tend to cling to the standards they were raised with or are comfortable with... even when some of those standards are bad or wrong. I'm a boomer myself, being born in the early 60's.. and it seems like all my life I've been…

See, what those dudes are missing is that 1) it's not about them personally, and it's phenomenally self-centered to act like it is, and 2) even if they don't actively participate in misogyny by being violent or aggressive it saying openly sexist shit, patriarchy isn't just a bunch of bad dudes doing shitty things,…

Serious question… Do you think that the Top 10 List from David Letterman, below, is related at the mild end of this same spectrum? These attitudes and jokes are of course pervasive in American culture. My Dad sent me this email string. It made me so sad and we are currently having an email standoff about it and…

From my experiences with being on that specific #yesallwomen thread I think one of the things I regret most is that Jezebel is not a safe space for ist commenters to speak their minds about issues like this anymore. I, too, had a #notallmen 'nice guy' write me a three page reply this morning telling me that I was…

#ItIsAllMen.