Your friends went to Russia AND Ukraine. Different places. Different languages. And your friends are brave.

You're welcome! My pleasure!

Oh, reverse racism exists. How on earth can you think it doesn't? How can you have been so lucky never to have been a victim of it? Reverse racism is...racism. Racism is what occurs when someone makes insulting and incorrect assumptions about people based on their race. They then use those assumptions to justify…

Oh, reverse racism exists. It's called racism. Racism is what occurs when someone makes insulting and incorrect assumptions about people based on their race. They then use those assumptions to justify hurting those people in many ways — often physically or in terms of professional achievement.

Didn't you say you were Spanish? I thought you did. I guess I misread that — sorry! And I thought you were ACTUALLY Spanish (that's why I mentioned the Inquisition — it was not mentioned interchangebly with, say, Puerto Rican) and then your people went elsewhere. I thought somewhere you had people from Spain in…

She's done NOTHING to deserve this nationwide sharpening of pitchforks. Nothing. She's awesome. Fuck Jezebel. The only good thing about their existence I can think of right now it that it allowed you to post the most awesome sentence ever, "What has she done to deserve this nationwide sharpening of pitchforks?"? …

Thank you. It does seem like Jezebel is trying to make us hate Anne Hathaway and I cannot hate her either. I like her. I have know idea why Jezebel doesn't. I am SO GLAD you posted this — I thought it was just me who suspected Jezebel had some anti-Hathaway conspiracy-theory plot going on. Glad to know I am NOT…

Good for you! You're smart. Recently, I've been meeting a lot dumb people I guess, or maybe you are just smarter than most. Let's go with the last possibility — as I always say, never turn down a compliment.

Some of my father's people were from Chenobyl — I can't go there, either — well, I could, but when I came back, I'd glow in the dark. No thank you! You might want to look at your Spanish side — I have heard of more than one Latino person who discovered they were Jewish once they did a little research. It's…

You can go there. It's just not paid for — it's not free. Where is you abuelita from? That Spanish for grandmother — you might be more Jewish than you know. And why can you not trace your roots? It's easier to that now than it ever has been.

Sounds cool. I haven't read it since I was a little kid. I'll give it another look.

You just think that looks ugly because you have only been exposed to circumcised penises all your life (father, uncles, brothers, cousins, locker rooms, friends). Had you grown up in a society where men weren't circumcised, you would say "shit is ugly," when you saw a circumcised penis. An uncircumcised one would…

Oh, my g-d. I feel so bad for you I could just kill your stepmother — or leave her alone in a room with grandma at her worst. Like you, I have had a miscarriage and to have people judge you because you are having a difficult time emotionally dealing with something like that is so heartless. It's soulless. I am so…

The weird thing is — my grandma's NOT a racist. She's NOT a homophobic. Au contraire. Her friends are mostly gay men. Grandma is a narcissist. Had to be. She lost her parents when she was a child. She was extremely beautiful — Vivien Leigh beautiful and with very little family or friends, that is how she…

Unfuckingbelievable. This sounds like something my grandmother would do. I remember telling her once about one of my students who was brilliant. He had a full scholarship to college. He also looked a lot like a very young Al Roker. She swooped in on that. She said, "He's overweight?" I said, "Yeah, I guess so."…

I think so. Most pictures I have seen with Rachel Dratch show her with intensely blue eyes — and these are just casual shots — it's not like she's dressed up for some red carpet event.

Deenie isn't the masturbation book. Who remembers this as the masturbation book? I've never heard of that. You are right. Deenie is the scoliosis book with a focus on the beauty myth and (as always) a horrible mother. This mother places one daughter in the "pretty" category and the other in the "smart" category.…

You know, I don't Tweet! I am so...old and uncool. I heard about it, but didn't see it. That didn't stop me from ranting about it on boards like this one. And I am serious — I just cannot understand what people are thinking. Who could think, "Now there's a good idea! There couldn't possibly be any bad fall out…

I know! She was actually there — he disappeared for years at a time. Literally. But mothers are supposed to be superior and are slammed when they're not — and her father is hands-down DREADFUL, and no one cares. Bizarre. I love Drew. She has some adorable streak of joy in her that I think helped her survive.

I know exactly how you feel because I have the lumpiest breast in the world, too. Some people just do. So, if you are over 40, have your yearly mammogram, and don't worry about unless you feel something new and weird. And you WILL fill something different because, believe it or not, you have this 6th sense that…