This is exactly the type of story the author said he didn’t want submitted at the end of the article.

Cool story, bro

My first job was at a restaurant where all the employees were kids from my high school. I was the dishwasher. We still employed the three sink system, meaning I was adequately shackled with the proper “Work is Hard and It Sucks, But Goldurnit it Was Much Harder In MY DAY” attitude that has helped me successfully and…

My reaction to Paleo is “Slaughter a mammoth with a stone spear tied to a stick or GTFO.” WE DO NOT LIVE IN PREHISTORIC TIMES, PEOPLE. WE HAVE CONQUERED FIRE AND HAVE AIR CONDITIONING NOW.

Chalky Death = my new band name.

KAZOOOOOOOOOOOS!

When I managed a Borders we were also responsible for this small calendar kiosk on the other side of the shopping center. I was there covering someone’s lunch break and this crazed woman came over demanding why we had no bichon frise calendars. The dog calendar people were always the weirdest.

I remember when I was working retail at an upscale mens clothing store in University and this guy came in and told someone that Dave Olson, the store manager, said he’d hook him up and give him 20% off some expensive designer jeans. Unfortunately, the person he happened to tell this to was Dave Olson, who’d never seen…

Oh dear. I just know I’m going to be randomly blurting out “KAZOOOOOS!” for the rest of the day. Well played. Well played.

Thank you. I’m tired of seeing the “ALL women experience harassment!” message. No, we don’t. I’m very unattractive and have been invisible since I can remember. I’ve never experienced anything like the author is talking about yet I’m expected to nod along in agreement. If I don’t, I’m not a “real woman’ because I…

Was it that Kinja post that got mainpaged, about how the majority of discourse on street harassment focuses on the form when men aggressively tell women how fuckable they think they are, rather than the other form where they’re aggressively telling women how unfuckable they are? And how when 90% of discussion on…

I’m with you. I experience nonstop street harassment and I hate it. I’m all over movements like Hollaback.

If it makes you feel any better, I stand with you outside the circle of this experience and I’m fairly convinced it’s because of the way I carry myself. You probably don’t get the attention because the harassers don’t read you as someone who will give them the response that they want. People don’t like hearing that…

Oh, I’m sure it’s weird and uncomfortable. I am definitely NOT complaining that it doesn’t happen to me. I do find the spectrum of who it happens to interesting. In a sociological way, not in a catty way.

I think that the level of street harassment that most women experience is more closely related to the environment they’re in than to their own level of objective hotness. In smaller towns, there’s much, much less of it. Even very beautiful women can go about their daily business without getting shouted at. Bigger…

This comes up on all articles having to do with catcalling and other such issues. #YesAllWomen always sat weird with me. Because it isn’t all women. I have never gotten catcalled. I know it’s degrading and horrible, but it really doesn’t happen to all women. I always feel weirdly left out or like I’m not actually a…

You should ask your friend to jump on this thread/set up a Kinja account and contribute or email Anna. Give her direct take on things. Not a criticism, just think her insight would offer some interesting perspective based on what you wrote here.

LA resident with one of my bridesmaids as a senior, non creative, business operations executive there for a few years, though recently departed for another major label in an extremely senior role there. At her wedding everyone spoke to her patience, her ability to be a mommy manager to everyone, including strangers on…

When I was reading that part, I kept thinking that THIS is why we need a single payer health care system. It is ridiculous to have to rely on your employer for health care to be on a transplant list. I know the Affordable Care Act changes that, but the system is still so complex.