I've never known anyone to get bed bugs from taking something off the street. Anyone with a soul who got bedbugs would put a sign on their furniture if they leave it on the street. Also, plenty of upscale locations in NYC have gotten bedbugs, and plenty of people have bought mattresses from the store with bed bugs.

"Paying a landlord rent, buying crappy furniture from Ikea, and hiring movers".

You are absolutely right, being asked for help with a task that is physically difficult for someone is just as bad as having someone grab your ass against your will. Poor you.

I am not sure if you coined the phrase 'oppression olympics', but if you did, kudos and I am stealing the hell out of that.

FACT: The only time my body has ever fit into what science has deemed a 'normal' BMI range was when I was starving myself and overexercising, leaving me chronically exhausted and barely able to function.

I tried this for the first time recently (I'm straight as a board but I was in a drunken orgy and why the hell not?) and I really expected it to be a more. . .overwhelming? experience, I guess. I found it easier than giving blow jobs. Definitely reinforced my opinion that guys who won't go down on me are not guys I…

If they want to legislatively control the models that are represented, they should mandate that companies use a certain % of plus size or average models and not just bone thin ones. Banning one super-thin model is, as people have said, reverse body shaming, and also not doing anything to change the fact that all the…

That is not a generational thing. That's a bad worker who deserves to be fired, and obviously was. There are plenty of people who can take little Facebook breaks and still do a great job; and no one who responded to this survey said "I want to be on Facebook while making important phone calls" or "I want to go on…

Really? A whole lot of Gen Yers would LOVE a crappy job. We've got the highest youth unemployment rate in decades. This survey was asking about the jobs young people prefer; it doesn't mean that they necessarily expect to get it, or that jobs of either type are available to them.

I would have answered the survey questions the same way as the majority, but not because I'm addicted to Facebook. Being allowed to go on Facebook means I'm in an environment where I'm trusted to manage my own time as long as I get my work done well. I'd rather be paid less to work in that kind of environment than get…

Oh no, really? That is a major blow to my life plan, as it currently involves marrying him. I have GOT to stop deciding to marry boys before I've actually met them in person.

I didn't get the impression he was getting any fives for it at all, actually; his male friends were like 'whatever, no big deal' and the women were all against it.

If Jens Lekman writing the most adorable song EVER about her doesn't help her feel better, I just don't know what will. [www.youtube.com]

I don't think my anecdote is supposed to disprove the phenomena. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't automatically apply social trends to our judgements of individuals. Because my ex's friends have experienced this phenomenon of older men wanting to date younger women for skeevy reasons, they automatically assumed…

Also; the title of this article is "The Real Reason Why Older Men Want To Date You". Not "The Real Reason Why Certain Men Will Only Date Younger Women". Perhaps that's what's bugging me.

That's true, the article is talking about a specific kind of jerk; I just felt like because we hear about this kind of jerk a LOT, all the women in his life suddenly jumped on him for no reason when he started dating me. So I just wanted to put the thought out there that we shouldn't quickly judge men who are dating…

Totally. I just think because we hear about this type of man a lot and it's become such a common stereotype, people will assume that any man who's dating someone younger is that way and get really judgy, and make a totally great guy feel bad about himself.

Can I just say that while this sucks and is true of a lot of men, it doesn't mean that every guy who dates a younger woman is just immature and stroking his own ego?

TANGENT: I had never realized that "Remix to Ignition" actually had an un-remixed accompanying song called "Ignition", until I had assumed that they were the same thing in a Karaoke song book and chaos ensued.

I forgot to add in my previous comment that I am attached to my name because it's my Mom's and her side of the family is very traditional, religious, and racist and really into the Family History, so I find it really hilarious that the only people carrying on the name at this point are a Yankee Jew (me) and a…