I personally prefer men on the larger side. But what about shaving reminds you of being fat?

I tried to forge a path. I know many women who did. We got chewed up and spit out while our male peers got promotions to management. I regret entering a male-dominated profession. I am looking to change careers to almost anything *not* male dominated.

Yes! Me too. Recent divorce, lost 40 lbs by not being interested in eating (still fat tho). People can’t shut up about the weight loss. One woman said it was an impressive achievement and I told her I didn’t do anything to cause it on purpose so I’m uncomfortable with that comment and she told me not to tell…

You had the right idea. Trying to talk to troll-troll-troll-your-boat in good faith seems to have been a fool’s errand.

In my experience, being a woman is the same as it was 20 years earlier in 1996. The only difference is that because of wide-spread access to the internet, it is harder (but not impossible) for the powers-that-be to aid, abet, commit, condone, cover-up, encourage, hide, overlook, and refuse to punish the…

Really? Never harassed? Or just never harassed in a sexual manner? Because I’ve been fat and not-fat, and I experienced far more harassment both sexual and non-sexual when I was fat than when I was thin.

I have had the superpower of being visible to “only people of exceptional quality and character”for most of my life, as I have been overweight for most of my life. I have found that now that I am gettng older, I have not experienced the loss of status many women talk about coming with aging, because as a…

I wonder if the OP is talking about not an actual situation that ever existed in the world, but a mythical world which is widely held to have existed, but which never did, as embodied, for example, by the story told in the following:

Yes! This is exactly how I feel. I am done accomodating people’s bullshit remarks and attitudes. This goes for a range of issues, of which sexism is only one, which were magnified by the recent election. I have done my share of playing nice and not calling out people who say hurtful things to avoid being labelled…

In discussing women-dating-women, you have brought up a subject which has crossed my mind repeatedly since my divorce. I have, after a year of run-ins with men post-divorce, throughly examined myself to see it there is a lady-loving side to myself which I may have overlooked. The answer, sadly for me, is no. While…

Beautiful piece. I had many similar experiences growing up female and am also tasting the angry bile, particularly ever since the primary season showed Trump was being regarded by people as a serious presidential candidate instead of the absurd circus side show he is. I love sex and am currently single but ever…