ALL women have a ritual they go through every morning before they present themselves to the MENS for approval!

Thank you for a scientific reason for me to be less embarrassed about how long I cried when Dumbledore died.

Remember how BMI is actually a totally nonsensical way to measure anything at all? Because it was meant to measure entire populations, not individuals, and is based on a mathematically faulty formula?

Actually, walking can burn as many calories as running and is often recommended as exercise for older people because it puts less strain on the body. Maybe it won't turn you into a marathon runner but walking briskly is very much a legitimate form of exercise.

Last year on Mother's Day my neighbors were having a big drunken middle-of-the-day party. We shared a backyard and I was sitting out on the fire escape. Throughout the whole party there were people out there on their cells, talking to their Moms while finishing their 40s. It was pretty adorable.

There was a period when I was 19 when I had this huge boost of self-confidence due to losing a bunch of weight, and became so intoxicated with my ability to attract men that literally every time I got drunk it was time to make out with a stranger.

I went to NYU and Mara Wilson (Matilda) lived a floor above me my freshman year. Kids on my floor would FREAK out when they saw her, take the elevator to the 7th and walk down just to catch a glimpse of her. . .NYU might be even worse, 'cause a lot of kids there move to the city because they want to pretend they're…

Also, if you're married and on the younger side don't assume a new person will notice your ring. I've thought a guy was flirting with me for like four hours, then someone mentioned the ring and I realized he probably wasn't being cautious at all because his finger clearly states he's not single. Married people are…

I've wondered the same thing, I definitely remember everyone intentionally screwing with the tests. I HOPE the researchers have some method of accounting for that, otherwise none of this info would be accurate. It was pretty funny when the results came back in that 97% of our senior class smoked pot (and that may…

If I had to guess, I would say that the rise of information on the internet contributes to the rise in drug use; as in, teenagers can easily find out that the information they're given about the dangers of marijuana is incredibly overblown (unless it's changed from what I got in high school, they basically tell you…

Can they make one that will track when I'm about to turn into a werewolf at the full moon, too? Or do they consider that to be essentially the same thing?

Good to have that perspective. . .I was thinking more about this, and I realized it's often a situation where most friends would expect people to pitch in (like if I buy a bottle of alcohol for everyone), and the reason people don't say 'thank you' is they feel weird not offering to pitch in when they can't. Whereas I…

Anyone have advice for when you make a LOT more than your friends and everyone knows it? It's not a jealousy situation at all, most of my friends are students and I have a full-time salary job, and they aren't mad about that. Most of the issues arise because I'm more than happy to be extra generous with my friends,…

Not when you're hiking 12 miles a day it ain't!

You know how sometimes it's a concern that if you stay friends with an ex you'll still have feelings for them and end up obsessing over them all the time? I've found the solution: stay friends with LOTS of exes. You will have SO MANY FEELINGS but at least you won't be harping on one person all the time!

Just did ten days in Bolivia. Packed: One pair of jeans, 7 t shirts, one sweatshirt, two cotton dresses, sneakers and sandals. It was all fine and dandy until the jeans went through a very muddy hike in the cloud forest, leaving me with the choice between showing up back in snowy NYC in a tiny dress or in jeans that…

I work in one of the few fields where you can't even avoid hugginess at work; activism/community organizing. I like to hug my close friends and many of my fellow organizers are my close friends, so it's usually cool. . .but sometimes I'm just like 'THIS IS A PROFESSIONAL MEETING WE DO NOT HAVE TO STAND IN A CIRCLE AND…

Are we counting different sizes for different items? I've got jeans in a 12, 14, and 16, shirts in small, medium, and large, and dresses in XS-L (the XS dress I found in a 'free bag', and it's from Barneys, an institution that I have never entered, so I have NO idea what's going on there).

Hm, can you explain that further? I have a feeling I agree with you but I'm not 100% certain what ou mean by your first statement.

I hear that, and I acknowledge the possibility that I'm wrong. . .but these are very close friends of mine, and I do know quite a bit about their sexual experiences. Without going too far into it I think I'm discussing only what I know of them and not assuming that all women have these experiences.