Conservative women of her ilk are all about the "sui generis". They like to think they sprung like Athene, from the head of Zeus, and are special and boot-strap-py. But know that most women can't be like them. (more that they don't WANT most women to be like them.) So they downplay their accomplishments for the…

Four weeks ago I had double stomach surgery- a Nissen Fundoplication up top and a pyloroplasty down below. I haven't been able to eat solid food since Thanksgiving and in that time I've lost about 20lbs. As you can probably guess, my diet has been horrendously unhealthy (there's only so much I can get out of the small…

It's not. Fuck those men who are perfectly happy to be supported by women's tax dollars and protected by female soldiers but are too good to sit next to them on the bus.

Sounds like somebody's going through pumpkin spice latte withdrawal.

Jesus, how much affirmation do thin white people need? Nearly every ad, billboard, movie role is not enough for you, you have to see yourself reflected in the look book of every single designer?

The fact that lemon Oreos exist is more is gusting than this video.

Totally agree. I've seen women who put aside careers in order to support their husband and family in what was agreed was a group/team effort, oftentimes involving multiple overseas moves for his advancement up the ladder (can't exactly build your career when that's happening) and then when the dude runs off with a…

I was the stay-at-home person in our relationship. Believe me, mr. rottenkitty never had to think about anything but his career. I don't mind that because that's what we worked out. However, unlike mr. rottenkitty, I never get to retire from my job. I'll be cooking and cleaning, doing the bills, dealing with all…

I mean, even the douchebags on okc posting their salaries ("I make 600k") - they know the game. And always the first to bitch about "shallow, materialistic" girls.

How about Smartwools? Warm and wonderful, and expensive as heck. I would be delighted to find a pair or two in my stocking.

I'm always fascinated by men who assume that all women are poor, uneducated, and uncultured — because the only reason a woman would gravitate towards a man of a certain socio-economic level is because she must be a gold digger, right? She couldn't possibly be his equal and have a lot in common with him, could she?

I got a mandolin slicer last Christmas, and immediately set to using it. My son, who watches 'Chopped' like they give him a salary to do it, tells me, "Use the guard!" because he's seen a hundred contestants cut their fingers off while not using the guard. "Yeah, yeah, yeah," say I.

Sorry but fuck that noise. I love getting candles, bath products, lotions, socks and Starbucks gift cards.

When our friend was a Cistercian monk he brought us a monk-made fruitcake. Those holy men were not shy with the rum and it was GLORIOUS.

I'd pretty much take any of the gifts on this list and be happy. Give me socks, a coffee card, some Amazon money, a Yankee candle, a blank book, some spray from B&BW and a cake (a proper tea loaf, though) and I'm like a pig in shit. Throw in one of those tins of biscuits or a selection of chocolate and my Christmas is…

Ha! I actually asked my ex-boyfriend for a blank notebook for Xmas this year. Lines, but not too dark, and a spine that will hold together, but not too strongly. It's hard to write in a journal that's constantly trying to close on you. I told him to overthink it, since he's really good at overthinking gifts (like the…

Ok, so this example didn't happen online, but I have had the online equivalent happen several times in the past.

On an airplane, a guy across the aisle from me tried to start a conversation based on the subject matter of what he saw me reading. He immediately worked his resume and "credentials" into his end of the…

Wait, are you trying to tell me that women on the internet are real and should be treated as such instead of like prostitutes in a video game?

WHERE HAVE I FUCKING BEEN???

It's really weird to me how so much of mainstream porn seems to require some sort of misogyny. Why isn't it enough to just watch people having sex? People having sex seems like the sort of thing that would be sexy. Sex is fun, let's just watch people having fun by having sex! Why does there have to be so much of the…