I don’t get the hate. I don’t eat raw onions since they give me indigestion. No one questions me when I ask for no onions on my salad or tries to sneak onions into things. No one speculates that maybe onions don’t really give me indigestion. But if I mention that I avoid gluten for the same reason (on the advice of my…

It’s classic “look at me, I look cool because I’m calling someone else uncool!” which is both lazy and something most of us grow out of after high school. I read it kind of expecting this but sometimes I just like to make myself mad! My husband can’t eat wheat and it fucking sucks. But guess what, I have no problem…

It’s terrifying! At a lot of restaurants, they’ll call us “glutards”. As in, “Ha ha, anyone who says they need their meal gluten free is just faking and being a fucking diva. Fuck those glutards, let’s put something in there with gluten in it and not tell them!”

I’m enjoying the irony of everyone laying into you because you don’t know how these girls feel all the while they are assuming these girls feel victimized or traumatized. It’s bizarre. There’s also a certain faction of the Jezebel commentors who revel in victimhood and love to throw around “victim” and “trauma” every…

I heard a report on NPR while running errands the other day about the prevalence of gluten-free pasta in Italy. Basically, although Italy has the same ~1% celiac rate that the US does, pasta is such a cultural staple that almost every restaurant in the country has some sort of gluten-free pasta easily available (and…

I swear people get off on being judgey assholes about shit. As long as you’re not a jerk about your dietary restrictions I don’t see the problem. I'm glad you figured out what was making you feel crappy so you could make changes and feel better.

The kid probably has Celiac or food allergies.

Apparently, dead lion = horrific/terrible and ethnic/racial stereotype = totes cool!

Some of the biggest misogynist men I know are Atheists. There's actually a huge issue with women not identifying with Atheisim because of the misogyny in that group. Many of the mass shooters identified as Atheists and still hated women. Toxic masculinity is not something that is corrected by societies becoming less…

I’m the youngest in my family, and I would have given anything to have people actually listen to me when I said no, or that I didn’t want to hug someone, or that I wanted tickling to stop. I don’t like being tickled, but when you’re laughing and staying stop, people don’t believe you. I got to the point where I’d tell…

I can see why someone who doesn’t worry constantly about food availability would find this stuff strange. And a lot of the GF buzz has gotten out of hand. But for those of us who do have Celiac or food allergies (Hi, I have both.) food is not a stress-free thing. The idea of a convention center full of things that are…

If they’re over the age of 25, it means way too many others have been way too nice about it in the past.

I hear you completely on the female support system, but I disagree 1000% that it is a biological issue. For one, teenage/adolescent girls are also hormonal and emotional as hell, but they don’t act the same way and are not prone to violence as a reaction to rejection, nor do they feel entitled to a boy. Secondly,…

Yeah, if there’s a guy who’s really great and nice - but kisses sloppily or whatever - just tell him instead of denying yourself the pleasure of good make out sessions, you know? Big boys (and girls) can handle it.

I’ve told guys I’ve seen that they suck at kissing. In a nice but completely necessary way. And then showed them what I liked and, really, what most people would probably enjoy, too.

Right? And what the the suggested alternative if you’re not supposed to say anything? Pray it will improve? Dump him without explanation? Draw a picture?

Telling men, in detail, why I don’t want to have sex with them is honestly one of my favorite activities. It feels like doing God’s work.

sometimes I wish women just had the confidence that men seem to have. you know, from having people listen to you instead of trying to talk over you and other such problems. But it probably won’t happen, so I’m content to see men’s self esteem reduced on the average.

I don’t think you’re wrong, but it’s probably still worth it for parents to chip away at this toxic attitude and refuse to tolerate woman-hating behavior in their kids. Assuming the parents themselves aren’t perfectly comfy in their misogyny already, which so many are...

When I first read this story, I got mad at the kid, until I took a step back and thought to myself, “Hey! The good guys won and nobody got hurt, for a change!”