@brillow: Wow. Nice attitude. If you hate weddings so much, don't go.

@ChottoCoquette: Having a menu planned in accordance with your values is ok, but you don't have to be patronizing about it and make it into a "teaching moment".

@ChottoCoquette: I would ask them to inform me about their dietary restrictions when they respond to the invitation, and plan the menu so that everybody would have something to eat. If someone was so allergic to seafood that they wouldn't be able to attend if seafood was served, then I think it would be polite to…

@doodly: I've been a vegetarian for almost ten years, and nothing is as booooring than havin to discuss my diet. I never know how to answer when I'm asked what I eat if I can't eat meat. Um, food?

@duncanatrix: This. That's why I wasn't impressed when the writer of this post wrote "it appears that men do help out around the house". I don't want him to "help around"! I want us to be equal partners and him to do just as much housework as I do.

I don't want to have anything to do with my exes. They treated me like shit. Yes, I'm bitter. I'm sure things would be different if the break-ups hadn't been so full of drama.

I had my ass grabbed by an older guy while wearing a floor length black skirt and sporting a bald head. I was clearly craving for male attention!

@DonnaPirana: I have noticed the same thing. Between ages 12 and 18 got harrassed pretty often, but then it stopped. And I'm still just 22. Or maybe my skin is just thicker and I don't notice it as I used to.

@JoliePolie: ...and it's eco-friendly as well! Win-win! Why would you bring a new vibrator into this world that is full of abandoned sex toys?

@yinyang: Heart.

@Breathe: I heard that because it's porous some bacteria can get stuck in the head of your Hitachi no matter how hard you try to clean it. Your tip is great, but works better with toys made of sterilizable materials such as silicone, hard plastic, glass, metals, etc. :)

@WillowWeen: Yeah, women working in male-dominated fields have told me you have to act "one of the guys" to fit in.

I heard you should use a condom with you Hitachi because it's made of a non-sterilizable material...

@Breathe: The Hitachi is made of some porous material, so I doubt that would work.

@It's you and so not me: Sigh. So true. I used to date a computer scientist with a chronic carpal tunnel syndrome. So many disappointments at crucial moments ensued... *shiver*

@starrlexxdiva: Heh. They recycle the materials. As far as I know no-one's selling second hand sex toys.

This struck a chord with me, because a very close friend of mine is having trouble studying in a male dominated program. The guys in her class are making rape jokes, jokes about violence against women, and saying other sexist stuff all the time, and although my friend is never the target of their jokes and is not…

@nerdycellist: Happy birthday! I'll keep my fingers crossed :D

@nerdycellist: Well that sounds like one hell of a birthday party.

@nesoxochi: I think those two things are interconnected. We're supposed to hate her because we (supposedly) envy her. Meh.