Okay, this might be TMI, but your mention of "waking up as a guy" reminded me of a really vivid dream I had a while ago:

I don't have sex dreams all that often, and when I do, it's always been as a female, probably because that's what my experience of sex has obviously been. I've had dreams where I'm a man, but never…

Thats not to say that men look at other men who have modified their bodies to look like women as "real women".

If people want to know the details behind how a surgery works, I think it would make more sense and be less invasive to ask a doctor who performs the surgery rather than a patient who receives it.

I don't see myself as having any particular gender, so having struggled with the very idea of how gender can exist at all outside of prescribed roles was baffling to me for a long time. It's hard to get outside of your own head. But my best friend eventually realized he was trans, and so he took the time to try to…

Yeah, this is weird, but was the baby really in danger? It's not like someone was going to step on it or like she went to the reception and did the boogie with the kid on there still.

All I am saying is that she seems to be happy about her situation. Maybe there was some kind of padding or something under her train for the baby to lay on. Look, I have no idea, but I don't feel like judging this.

I paid $8 for "avacado toast" in Baltimore this past week. I am part of the problem and I'm sorry.

Yeah I'm fine with that. What else is my choice I mean? Never get anything? I don't want the lumberjack special. And I manage about 3 bites of food in the morning, so an actually good piece of toast and cup of coffee sounds pretty perfect. Much better than throwing away a $13 breakfast that I never wanted but I had to…

I get charged $2 for wonder bread that has only a whisper of butter on it. I will pay $4 for a thick slab of good bread, and if you have toppings that don't suck I would be a customer all the time.

But what assurance do we have that her male counterpart isn't making $100 /hour on the computer and that, despite being out of work in excess of 8 months last year, last month his pay was $23028.75 just working on the computer for a few hours?!?! The original post reeks of cheerleading the wage gap on the basis that…

I'm no psychologist, but I'm the best damn armchair psychologist on Gawker (which prospective employers just don't GET, no matter how prominently it's featured on my resume). Anyway, a full-grown educated woman with a full-time job who willfully has her photo taken with One Direction has some serious issues going back…

I love your positive energy. I'm so happy for her as well! I don't know about you, but this information is a career changer for me.

It's so inspiring to see a success story in the midst of so many depressing comments!!! Give your friend's stepsister a hearty congratulations from us all!

Um....how incredibly patronising. I actually don't need "inspiring", I'm just having a crappy day and had a low moment. I really don't need to be condescended about my "life habits" either, which are pretty good thanks.

You just made my heart happy.

This is more than a new set of standards, though. The Common Core, along with its brother legislation, Race to the Top, is an attempt to "transform" (possibly ruin) public education as we know it. Just because they look vaguely like the old standards (minus creativity, oops!) doesn't mean that they're as "safe" as the…

I have in the past as well and didn't really start to pinpoint the difference until I started discussing the Common Core as well (I was a teacher for a few years). It's not something you really think about until you have to, but since a lot of arguments against the Common Core are about how schools and teachers will…

Could we make a note that the Common Core is not a new curriculum but new standards whenever we talk about the Common Core? A curriculum would actually be the lesson plans, materials, etc. actually utilized by the teacher in the classroom (either by teacher design or scripted or a combination based on the school).…

"Like any other change to educational standards, Florida's implementation of the new "Common Core" has come under fire for all the reasons you'd expect of new curriculums."