Oh man, men love women on wheels for some reason. I've gotten lots of catcalls (including two marriage proposals - not serious obviously) when on a bike - even more when rollerblading. Reasons unclear.

No, but context really matters. I think if you are in a situation where it is normal to approach other people (a cocktail party? a barbecue? speed dating?) then you absolutely should be friendly and outgoing. But if you are in a situation where you have no context for approaching someone (i.e. the street), then…

I actually never felt threatened by creepy men in clubs because I was with friends, there were tons of other people around, and I knew I could give them the brush-off without putting myself in danger.

OK, I'll add mine to 'most bizarre catcalls': I was pushing a stroller with my 8-month-old kid in it and some teenager yells out, "Can I be your son?" So effing bizarre.

It seems really curvy and cellulite-free for someone who just had a baby too. Everyone I know who had a baby got pancake butt to some degree.

That is shocking and offensive. Jeebus. I'm in the 'never wear it, haven't suffered' camp but I'm in medicine/academia and I see that is considered a refuge from the cosmetic overlords.

Damn, is that why pregnancy screws up your waist-hip ratio? I notice even very fit and slim women who have had a baby never have that nice curvy look you get from a low WHR. Bleh.

Hugs for you, you don't sound like you get a lot of breaks. I wish you could give yourself one about your body. I took 18 months to lose the baby weight after my first kid and am still carrying six extra pounds from my second, who just turned two. But I don't give a shit, frankly. I have two awesome kids, a…

No opinion on your friend but sleep-training and having a regular bedtime are different things, and not mutually exclusive.

That's interesting. I know nothing about makeup (I don't wear any) but I do paint and have taken some color classes, and have been taught to use a tiny amount of the *complementary* color in a shadow to make a figure pop. E.g. a hint of yellow in the shadow of a purple fruit. It sounds bizarre and looks theatrical…

Really, I think she looks like she has an inch of slap on her face in the picture anyway. She looks coldly beautiful but not like a real human being. Almost like a store mannequin or something.

OK I realize this story is really old but I just saw it now and I *have* to point out that concentrations of sperm in ejaculate are lower when ejaculations are more frequent. It's not a stable quality of the man, it has to do with how much he's been getting it on. This study result might just suggest that the…

Don't worry Penabler, there are lots of us snorting coffee silently over our keyboards out here. Your wit does not go unappreciated.

Really, I thought the Amazon Ashley video was pretty much unrevealing of the dancer's opinion. She seemed impaired first of all, but more than that she seemed like she knew who was paying her for the gig and wasn't interested in potentially undermining that income source by going on record with a negative opinion. …

It *looks* like a regular cigarette... but she doesn't *sound* like she's having a regular cigarette... hm.

One of my favorite NYC subway moments was observing two women noisily eating a big box of KFC *and throwing the bones on the floor of the train*. They exited at 103rd and left the mess. Nobody said anything.

Count me in. No soap. No makeup. Just water. I'm old too and am happy with my skin condition. But you know everyone on the internetz looks 10-20!!!1!! yearz younger than they really are.

It's just the endless repetition of this bogus statistic that gets to me. Actually even the WSJ article she links notes about halfway down that the overall number really glosses over the realities that you can see if you just subdivide the data a little more.

Yes. Completely agreed. But that's why waving around this false 76c/dollar stat is hurting us. The problem is not about institutionalized sexism (not to say that this is eradicated but is clearly not a major player in the earnings of childless women). The problem is about childbearing, child care, and the…

But young women with no children earn more than their male counterparts.