The same thing happened with the first female condom. Women in the USA disparaged it because "why should the onus be on the woman?" Others pointed out that consent wasn't there yet all over the world.

I don't mind people talking about their travels, restaurants, etc. so much as I mind them complaining. My rage hits when someone complains about foods like meat loaf that they consider bland or downscale, but that seemed like a feast to me. Even now in the Great Recession, people talk disparagingly about meat loaf,…

What the hell? I understand what you're getting at (sort of) but I would never say "fuck off" and he wouldn't either...and I would never, ever, ever inwardly laugh if he slipped and fell and maybe hurt himself.

I found someone with almost everything on that list, but he doesn't have a house or a car. That's probably why he was single when I met him. He has adequate job/retirement/money, but he just never had any interest in a house or a car.

I take it to mean "doesn't sit on the couch in underwear playing video games all day every day."

That sentence is beatiful. Am I the only Faulkner fan here?

The old Saluda Mountain to Spartanburg road before they completed the Interstate.  The grade made famous by countless runaway locomotives.  By the time you pass your fourteenth "Jesus Saves" sign, you're ready to repent.

I'll see your Katy Perry in a low-cut dress and raise you one Grace Slick in a halter top

+1

I always assumed the high-paying server jobs went to men. I'm glad to hear your sister gets those serving jobs.

Is his name Bloomwood?

Would a rat terrier be able to get the rats?

Oh, if only this were a Twilight Zone episode!

You need to listen to Dr. Mark Crislip's "Quackcast" and "Gobbet O' Puss" podcasts as well as read him on Science-Based Medicine. For one thing, he explains that "boosting the immune system" is nonsense. Having the flu will not make your immune system stronger. Also, he explains herd immunity and how people who…

What kind of person could go the rest of his or her life knowing they killed someone and not confess? I couldn't. It would haunt me. I'd drive straight to the police station like that car in the Twilight Zone.

My guess is some art school graduate came up with the original and at that time it was "art" and supposed to make the viewer think about racism and shit. Then, some dunderhead at Primitive Twig said "Hey we can market this to the aspirational consumer who loves contemporary art" — after all, the one-of-a-kind nature…

I think, also, part of it is what kind of person would own and display such a figurine from the past. What kind of attitude does the owner usually have toward the object? In my experience, such objects are typically displayed with an attitude of infantilizing African-Americans, Asians, etc. and thinking it's oh, so…

Here it is. This is the original Candace Bushnell column I remembered. http://observer.com/2007/05/manhattan-wedlock-nevermarried-women-toxic-bachelors/3/

I agree—my reply was sarcastic!

But she wasn't rich (according to the article). She was a scholarship kid. And then she tried to live the live she saw her peers from rich families living. They had a safety net and she didn't. That's what I took from it, anyway.