I admit I was annoyed, until Altima pointed out that the plots were empty for years. That is a fair argument.

Been seeing this for the last few days. Players like me transferred to Mateus years ago because the low pop allowed us to get houses. Up till the free transfers a few weeks ago there were entire wards empty, I’d say at least half the available houses on the server went unclaimed for years. So somebody bought them…

Never mind too grey to function, you’re too stupid to breathe.

“Any kind of punching would have been unacceptable. Yelling would have been unacceptable. Not laughing would have been unacceptable.”

No. Not everyone laughs. The ass-grabbing was unwelcome. Tom didn’t seem to give a shit.

I don’t know, I’m a petite woman and was a tiny girl. I can’t rely on physical strength. If I got into a fight with a guy, hitting him in the balls would be my first thought because it’s a great equalizer. I’m one big soft spot from head to toe but that’s the one weak point men have.

No, she wasn’t one of the guys. Tom wasn’t grabbing the other guys’ asses, only hers. Letting him do it and them laugh about it was the price of admission for being the girl they tolerated in their group.

(Most) men are so easily offended by the mere sight of a pad or tampon, it’s ridiculous. Where else should you have put them? In you purse? They only like to acknowledge vaginas when it’s convenient for them, so when they’re horny. But I can understand your reaction, I used to be like that until a couple of years ago…

This was powerful and eloquent and touched a nerve.

That’s when you stuff his pillowcase with them.

Go you. I shaved my head last summer and everyone kept trying to philanthropize it: “Oh, did you do St. Baldrick’s? Or donate it to charity?” “No,I just wanted it gone so I could stop wasting time preening myself.” As if a woman’s appearance/shaved head has to be an act of generosity or sacrifice.

Whenever I read a frothy article that’s all ‘Here are the top ten things in women’s fashion that men hate’, I just want to do everything on the list as a reminder that I do not exist for anybody’s boner. It’s that level of pettiness that led to me cutting off all of my hair after a boyfriend told me he didn’t want me…

And woe betide any woman who refuses to go gently (or quietly, for that matter) into that good night.

And Michael, too. My college boyfriend reprimanded me for putting pantyliner wrappers in the garbage in his bathroom because his roommate would tease him for it. I was so humiliated. I didn’t occur to me then to be pissed at him and his stupid roommate. I feel sad for my younger self, and I’ll never stop being pissed…

You just don’t do that to a guy. Ever.

Great piece. And may I recommend getting fat? I am completely invisible now. But nothing makes men angrier than a fat feminist who loves herself. Example number one - Lindy West. She rocks.

Vanity keeps me from throwing away my makeup and sanity keeps me from, as I often feel the repugnant urge, breaking the mirror with the surface of my own face and leaving us both cracked open. But I also can’t deny my current impulse to become as ugly and unlikeable as I can, merely to serve as constant reminder of…

This was amazing. Thank you for writing!

Madeleine Davies, always my favorite.

Fuck Tom and all the Toms of the world.