I'd mellow with age too, if I had someone efficiently running my household and handling the details of all my entertaining for me.

Word. And it's not just in the workplace. I lost my job a couple years ago and it wreaked havoc on my finances and my sense of self — I always have a job, and being financially stable and self-sufficient is vital to me. But so many people acted like it was no big deal because I had a boyfriend who, I guess they…

I've thought about doing this, not a whole family, just a kid. And I was gonna use pics of my sister's kid, so it would be so easy. As a single person, I am constantly made to work more hours and treated as if I am not important when compared to people with kids - many of my coworkers get time off and get a pass…

Oh how you make me giggle out loud.

A Nordstrom Rack is a chimera. It's a Nordstrom store with stuff that didn't sell from the regular Nordstrom, I think. Sometimes it is heaven and filled with the best dansko shoes and cotton shirts in exactly my size. Other times it is hell and filled only with blue sequined flip flops and strange nylon shirts shot…

Dear Brides: I hate weddings. Truly, I do. Showers too. When you're looking to trim the invitation list, please scratch my name off first. I'm sure you'll be as relieved as I'll be. You don't want me showing up, getting too drunk too early, and hitting on all the men, even your weird Uncle Charlie, and all the married…

I wish there was a superhero who swooped in and blew a loud airhorn and held up a full length illuminated mirror at crusty old men whenever they dole out a "joking" insults about a young woman's body, especially their daughters'.

I'm going back a few years, but one memorable coworker got even sharper when she was pregnant, and somewhat less patient, but not so much that it didn't work for her. No time for BS. She did it four times! I didn't work with her during the first, but I did for the other three. She got very focused.

Showing that there is a belief in the effect is orthogonal from showing that there is an effect. People might learn about 'baby brain' from their culture, and they might also learn about it from interacting with women who become pregnant and display it. Showing that there is a 'bias' (ie accurate belief) is…

r/relationships is my biggest guilty pleasure. It is hilarious and everyone is insane. In their universe, anyone who has friends of the opposite sex is definitely cheating and gaining weight is the number one worst thing you can do to your partner (after cheating, of course, which is a capital offense).

I'm going on a dating website and replying in only memes. It's happening. I will become a meme.

100%. The solution is for mutual respect to come forth. How hard is it to educate and then leave them with, "We ask that you please try to minimize your time in public during the next three weeks, however we realize that life goes on. The most important thing is to remain at home and call emergency services if you…

But are those "hellos" really that harmless? I mean think about it. Some of those there were people around her, and these guys didn't greet anyone else, just her. She never made eye contact with any of these people, but they felt that it was okay to single her out and insert their words into her space.

I'm gonna guess…

The more vitriol I hear about Destination Weddings versus all other weddings, the more I think I'm going to invite everyone to City Hall to watch me get married. Then my husband and I are going to hand out $5 vouchers to McDonalds to the guests, and hop a cab to the airport for our 3 week honeymoon. Bugger off, the…

Ha, same here. His show was a must on Friday nights. Then one day I was like, "this dude is a fucking asshole". That was the end of that.

Well, I'm a well-educated and reasonably intelligent woman, and I was in my 20s, too. But I can tell you that I put up with an awful lot of goddamn crap from men when I was younger than I do now that I'm middle-aged. It's got nothing to do with whether men find women their age desirable, or whether or not we're…

I was a 20-year-old woman once and, a grown-ass adult woman now, I'm a lot less amenable to some man's stupid BS now than I was then so, you can call it a tired way of thinking if it pleases you, but it's also the truth. Adult women are waaaaay more capable of standing up for themselves than someone who was an under…

Is it really bragging when a 47-year-old man admits to dating a 20-something girl? Because it just strikes me as weak and pathetic. There's a reason abusers don't go after a fully-fledged adult woman who will tell them to step off. They can't handle being challenged by a person of self-possession and power.

Yup. I used to be super shy, but when I kept I was insisting that I was shy in late college my friends called bullshit; that's when I figured out I'm a highly social introvert. Sometimes, nothing is better than bailing on plans with friends to watch Netflix and eat string cheese alone in bed.

Well, I think people do tend to be more one or the other, but most people have a misconception of "introvert" or "extrovert." Doesn't mean extroverts don't value alone time or introverts can't have lots of friends/do well at parties. It's about energy. Do you recharge by being alone, or being around people? If I'm…