I met some lovely men, too, whom I wasn't attracted to. Then I received some advice to give it a little more time for attraction to form, and decided to follow it. I met someone in real life whom I wasn't attracted to at first, but gave it some time, and he turned out to be the love of my life. Then I thought back…

I'm pretty sure that was a joke, and she was partly screening for someone who got the joke.

I sympathize. I have a man living in my finished attic who is exactly like your ex. I'm going to have to have him evicted. I didn't know there were role-playing games on Facebook, but I think online addiction is what's going on with him. I let him move in a year ago in exchange for "8 hours a week handyman work"…

Second-wave feminist here. Anyone else remember some of the kickass magazines in the seventies? New Woman? Self? Mademoiselle was good back then too! Sadly, I did not read Ms. very often. New Woman had a "Thump On the Head" feature in the back calling out those who made sexist pronouncements!

I don't either, but that's exactly what tons of people do.

Grandma?

" they're all essentially people you already know or are in your extended circle. So not only is your whole life out there, nothing is spontaneous or unexpected about it." In other words, it's like living in Kansas City.

+1

Armchair diagnosis—as I'm sure others have suggested, I believe your ex-husband was deeply unhappy before Facebook came along, and he got sucked into it because it allowed him a venue to feel good about himself by being able to manipulate the persona he presented. In real life, it was probably just too damn hard to…

I agree with this. I disagree with some commenters here who say "it's 2013, go flirt on the Internet" and don't approach people in a coffee shop/cafe. Some venues are known from way back as acceptable places to approach (for example, where I live, there's one certain grocery store, one certain park, one certain…

I agree. I just listened to a book about rabies and that's the first thing I thought when I watched the video.

I know some guys who help look for asteroids. Here's how they do it. Each clear night, they log on to Harvard's Minor Planet Center and get a list of which known asteroids should be visible that night. They then train their telescope on the area where the known asteroids should be. They then take five photos in…

If everyone would read the book Columbine, they would find out it was not because of bullying.

I think it's gorgeous too.

I wish more people understood that everyone doesn't line up 100 percent with the extreme of either party/persuasion/platform. I myself am a "law-and-order liberal." It's a thing, or there wouldn't be a name for it.

Oh for Pete's sake, someone who's 50 now went to college in 1979, not the 60's, and had only a couple of years to "sleep around" before AIDS came on the scene. And that couple in the photo is closer to 70 than 50. This doesn't mean the study is wrong, but I'm tired of "Boomers" getting the blame one minute for what…

I just know someone is going to think I'm a man excusing pissed-off guys. Before they do, I'm a woman, and I'm highly sensitive to the type of guys and activity that have come to be called "MRA trolls." I'm just saying they're probably not going to stop just because it rattles many women. The fact it rattles many…

I agree with you. On the other hand, MRA's have been invading women's discussion groups online since soc.women on Usenet. My view back then and still today is that it's an attempt to get their anger out or find a place to put their anger. They never change and never stop, because their anger never gets…

I know! WTF!!! I hope some big city news station hires this woman pronto.

We weirdos and uglies have more fun.