My sister-in-law didn't take my brother's name, and my Grandma likes to passive-aggressively make her feelings on that clear by saying "Hi, Mrs. Brothersname" and addressing letters to "Mr. and Mrs. Brothersname". Sigh.

"When straight people go to a bar, half the people there aren't viable sexual candidates."

The most annoying thing about this for me has been everyone saying "So you think gay marriage cheapens the institution of marriage? Look at Kim Kardashian!"

AHHHH ENOUGH WITH THE STUDIES THEY DO NOTHING BUT CONFUSE US. STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT.

Yeah, dude lost me at "In the world of Rosie, Oprah, Kim Kardashian and Hillary Clinton less than 3% of our largest companies have female leaders?"

Hey! I have that exact same vibrator in the picture, but blue!

Uh oh. . .do bad things happen to you if you take melatonin all the time? What sort of bad things?

This is a non-verified scientific "thing my Mom told me" but it seems to be true in my experience; avoiding looking at screens (computer, cell phone, TV) for at least an hour before bed can make it easier to go to sleep. Something about staring intensely into bright light makes it harder to sleep, I guess.

I'm sure whatever this article says is fascinating, but that picture on the top seems to have curtailed my ability to read. Drrrrooooooooooool!

Hell, can we even eliminate the term "overweight"? Seeing as it's been pretty established that the BMI measurement is scientifically nonsensical. . .how much sense does it make? What weight am I 'over' exactly, other than an imaginary ideal?

Yeah, yeah, we all got Participation Awards. But I don't think I ever met a kid who didn't think it was a total crock of shit. If anything, Participation Awards taught me that adults were condescending jerks.

I think the mother's wisdom here is great, though not necessarily an argument in favor of always waiting to have sex. If you can fully understand that the image of the person you have is a fiction, and you're OK with having awesome sex with that fiction even if you never hear from them again, that's just fine. If it…

Actually, there is no inherent benefit to being height-weight proportional. There is a benefit to having good cardiovascular and overall health. If you're overweight and sedentary and don't eat a healthy diet, there's a good chance that exercising and eating a healthier diet will lead to weight loss, but that's no…

I kind of like it. . .?

Yeah. I distinctly being annoyed as hell at the age of 5 that every game of tee-ball in our Little League was deemed a "tie". Maybe they gave us a lot of dumb self-esteem boosting 'awards', but that doesn't mean we were dumb enough to fall for it.

See, THAT I could have at least understood. But I would be like "Mom, can we get fruit roll ups?" and she'd be like "Sure!" and then OUT COMES THE FRUIT LEATHER. As if we couldn't tell the difference! UGH.

Er, the brown rice I buy comes in a box. Even healthy food has to go in packages sometimes.

I've thought for a long time about starting a support group for people whose parents tried to convince them that Fruit Leather was the same thing as Fruit Roll ups.

That is BEYOND inappropriate. "If you think you don't want children you aren't dating the right man?" What a sexist piece of shit. would have flipped OUT on that guy!

Ooh, I'm glad Fat Friendly Docs exists! I had the idea recently that someone should start basically a Feminist Zocdoc; a place where people can rate doctors based on categories like fat-friendly, no slut shaming, etc. etc. . .whenever I find a doctor that's cool I really want to let other women know about them, and…