I'm scrolling through the replies and I'm somewhat heartened to know that it wasn't just my mother that never said a damn thing to me about my period. Fortunately I had a sister that was 7 years older than me and she explained everything to me in graphic detail. When I started at 13, I knew what was happening so I…

True story: In Sunday School in first grade, at some point, a teacher said something to the effect of "all women are virgins when they're born", in answer to someone's question about why the Virgin Mary was called the Virgin Mary (adults get weird and incoherent when trying to explain the intersection of theology and…

Does anyone else get frustrated when media outlets try to describe "hooking up" strictly in terms of intercourse and nothing else? I was in college between 2007-2011, and in my experience, people were mostly making out/fooling around and were reluctant to go all the way. Sex was totally okay once you were in a…

Yep and that guy, as you mentioned, had amazing self confidence. We were fwb for a year and he never mentioned his penis size once - didn't apologize, never asked if it was ok. Wish we could all be like that. If apologized about it or felt bad, it would have affected my attraction to him i think.

I spent 13 years in Catholic school and have no memories of masturbation shaming there. I don't even remember them ever talking about it, though I think that's likely because I'm a girl and they didn't think the girls' half of the sex-segregated sex ed classes needed to be told. It's possible that the boys received…

There was a guy in my office, who, whenever a button popped off his shirt, used to come to me to borrow the sewing kit I kept in my drawer. He would then get another female colleague to sew it on for him...

None of it is going to make a blind bit of difference unless every store in the US standardizes their sizes. A size 4 or a Medium should be the same size as a size 4 or a Medium bought from any other store.

Caffeine wins Jezebel's Drugs. vs. Alcohol March Madness competition? THAT IS SOME HETERO NONSENSE.

What is the ultimate goal of pro-choicers? For me, it is making the world better for women. I am sure there are pro-lifers who also think they are making the world better for women, but they do not fully understand why or how anti-abortion laws destroy womens' lives. Call me a blue-eyed optimist, but I like to…

you don't prefer non-blonds because society has told you and everyone else that blond guys are inferior and that every woman really wants a redhead and you're obviously settling or defective because you can't attract a redhead.

What? I can eat an entire watermelon in one sitting and I weight less than a 100 lbs. I look like I'm pregnant afterwards, but I can do it.

When you imagine Chris Pratt thinking in hashtags like that, it allll makes sense.

When I was 9 my dance teacher got super offended when I said that something (I think it was a movie I'd seen, probably) "sucked". This was a phrase I used often at the time and I'd never had an adult's head spin around so fast to yell "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY". I was pretty sure she thought I said fuck, so I repeated…

It's actually kind of more fun, if you enjoy looking up translations and seeing how they might differ in tone (ie the French song ends the chorus with "This cold, for me it's the price of freedom" rather than the English "The cold never bothered me anyways". Or maybe I'm just a loser, who knows.

I'm a big, big fan of the "You are worth the wait" campaign. That is so much better than sending the message: "Girl, if you do it, you'll be a dirty ho that everyone thinks is gross."

I feel the same way about the pro-life movement. Their "Life is a beautiful choice" campaign is so much better than "Abortion=murder."

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ACTUALLY, the number of colors that different people perceive depends on a lot of interesting factors. There's a fascinating Radiolab episode that talks about how there are distinct patterns in how different languages develop different names and categorizations for colors. (A term for the color red inevitably comes…

I've never actually shopped at Hobby Lobby before. In fact until this case came up I'd never heard of Hobby Lobby before. But I will say that every time I read "Hobby Lobby" I sing it in my head like Laffy Taffy. You will now probably do the same. I'm sorry.

""I believe what the Bible says," Willie Robertson insisted, "

Same goes for low cut tops or tank tops. I'm a B cup so I can get away with wearing tops that someone with bigger breasts than mine wouldn't be able to. The only message this sends is that you should be ashamed of your body and that girl's body parts are shameful.

I don't know what other folks do, but as someone who walks to work, I wear apres ski boots over my slacks or tights that come nearly to the knee. Then I change into flats at work. It keeps the salt and dirty city snow off of me. That said, my 5 year old boots are pretty gross.