All of my regret was linked to getting into the situation in the first place. I told myself I was smarter than that, I should have known better. The only remorse I ever felt was for myself. But then that made me feel guilty and selfish. I am older now, and I embrace my selfishness. No one else is going to do whats…

This is such a great way to put it. I got pregnant with a guy during a one-night stand. I was 25, barely making ends meet, and facing the prospect of raising a baby in a one-bedroom apartment that I shared with my rambunctious pitbull. Not a great environment.

And laughing at salads!

It’s a decision of last resort - if we had the economic or emotional support (or maturity or desire) to have that child, most of us would. That’s why I for one, get SO PISSED OFF when MEN think they should have a hand in the decision or think we need extra time, counseling WHATEVER. It’s infantilizing and insulting to…

Which makes sense. No one wants to be in the position where they have to make that choice. And fewer people would be in that position if they had adequate access to birth control and effective sex ed

Sorry, too busy shopping, having periods and crying to reply.

I seem to remember something about how, sometimes, women talking about regretting their abortion weren’t actually regretting their abortion, per say. Rather, they were regretting the larger situation that surrounded them: having to make that decision when they so desperately wanted children (just not yet), the…

It’s almost like women are humans who generally know what’s best for them and their lives.

Ryan Seacrest is giving me a Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra vibe in that picture.

I think he’s cute. Also brilliant. Totally the type to bring home to parents.

Really? REALLY?

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I think it is absolutely hilarious when people that are tourists in a place get all uppity and annoyed by the tourists in places that they go to. As though they aren’t also there are touists. But they are different because they “we go to only the local places, not where all the tourists go” attitudes. Like, really?…

I don’t think this article was saying, “Never talk about travel or you are an asshole” so much as, “There is a particular way of talking about travel that is both common and annoying/smug.”

Oh god, the second one.

Urban Meyer doesn’t have fun. His personality reflects the full, vivid rainbow of intensity, from “Insanely Intense” to “Quietly Brooding Intense.”

Was the post you were responding to serious?! I thought it might be a parody of the exact kind of unbearable pomposity being criticized here. “Unfortunate task”? “Discern”? “People who haven’t really travel have certain cultural blindspots?” That guy wasn’t being sarcastic?!

My hate list:

Name-dropping and place-dropping just isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, according to what my friend Vince Vaughn told me when I ran into him in Barcelona.

I haven’t been to China but to lump me in with your friend is just rude. You don’t NEED to go somewhere to know a thing or two about it if you’re a curious person. It’s classist and gross to disparage someone for not having the luxury to travel the world.