Right now I’m inspired to write a fan fiction of the Great Gatsby, except it’s essentially Gossip Girl with a lot more dropped waist dresses and less “I bargained my girlfriend for a hotel.” XOXO, GG

“She is quintessential Midwestern- nice.” 

“Everyone is just out for themselves.”
It took someone sketching it out, but if we on the left really do care about economic inequality and workers’ rights, then subsidized child care/parental leave should be right up there with healthcare, and while student loans are definitely a heavy issue, they impact so many more…

I am friends with several to my eternal frustration so, yeah, they exist in real life. 

Yeah but her DNA test! A mistake like this is totally enough to disqualify *her*, but not any of the men running, despite Sanders falling on his face multiple times regarding both policy (his disastrous New York Daily interview) and race, Biden being a whole bunch more moderate than even Clinton/Obama was, Beto not…

Stop blaming women for being uncomfortable and acting as if their hurt feelings are a bigger injustice than how women have to interact with the world would be a great start. 

I did like em. I’m still friends with two or three of them (not like bosom buddies, but we’ll hang out at parties and “like” statuses on FB kind of friends.) There’s only two of em I actively dislike, and that has a lot to do with how they treated me; and honestly, I still wouldn’t label them jerks. I’ve seen them…

That’s the infuriating thing, isn’t it? Sanders has repeatedly fallen on his face regarding race issues, Biden has *gestures at pre-Obama issues*, but THIS is somehow enough to sink Warren, who has a ton of progressive policies and everyone was cheering as an alternate to Clinton in 2016. 

“Not going to deny that I’m going to be kind of a jerk when I feel like someone else is kind of being a jerk to me... but I might not make the effort to hold it open for them, either. I’m not going to escalate a situation.”

And that has its place (though I find just getting away from jerks as opposed to trying to…

“ I know that if I’ve been shut down by someone who doesn’t seem to care that I’m there, I don’t particularly feel like accounting for their point of view.”

Then sorry, you’re still kind of a jerk. For one thing, you don’t know if they really don’t seem to care that you’re there. Some people just come off as aloof but…

Yeah it was a really fascinating experience. Cause I wasn’t a “woman”, exactly, due to my looks, so I got to be part of the Club, but I wasn’t an honorary guy either, so I was still kind of looked down on. Usually my role was to act as the Women Stand-In who was there to justify why girls be psycho and why dating is…

Oh yes, much better! Wedding set for September 2019 to a guy who genuinely likes me and only makes a slightly negative comment about my appearance when I ask! :D 

Here goes diagnosing a very complex problem over the Internet, but as someone who actually prefers respectful, empathetic, and emotionally available men and yet have run fleeing from guys who describe themselves that way, how do you define those words?

Put another way: one guy I dated described himself as “very…

They’re not silent online, or in communities where they think comments are safe. (I’m a woman who frequently got “friend-zoned” due to my appearance, so I got to hear allllll about other women from my guy friends.)
What I noticed is, yes, there are plenty of men who have a high threshold for embarrassment but it’s...…

“But the embarrassment that comes with being a woman can feel wholly inevitable: Being too forward; talking too much; not talking enough; seeming too shy; texting too soon; coming across like a bitch or coming across as too easy. For every overstep there’s the possibility I’ll lose ground just standing still. The fear…

“I think Japan is a fantastic place to visit, but not necessarily to live.” 

Yeah the tons of holidays are nice, but I’m not sure it balances out 12-14 hour work days...
On the other hand, while I saw my fellow teachers show up to school at 6am and not leave until after 8pm, they’d also take naps at their desks and I genuinely couldn’t tell what they were doing that whole time. Could have just…

Japan is one of those fascinating places where culture is actually more behind the times than government (in terms of increasing population, anyway, not so much the immigration issue.) Granted this was 10 years ago, but I saw so much family planning work done on the city/prefecture level, like affordable childcare and…

I’d also kill to be able to press a button that would scroll a single user’s feed back to the beginning. Sometimes I’ll start following a new person and want to see a bit of their past posting, which involves just holding the scroll bar for hours. (Slight exaggeration but not really.) *I* could freaking program this;…

Honestly their Tokyo apartments aren’t any worse than your “affordable” New York City apartments, and there’s decent space out in the suburbs/country. Transportation is frequently packed, but that’s because it’s so darn good, you don’t really need a car to get around unless you’re really out in the sticks.
However,…