Correct. I'm a female and remember in late middle school and high school feeling like I was going to explode from this "raw, carnal desire" but there was nothing I could do about it besides jerk off in sometimes unusual circumstances. I couldn't even imagine being demanding or aggressive towards other boys. Women…

My boyfriend used to play as a female elf in Oblivion (I think it was Oblivion). For some reason he didn't even consider that that might cause people to make inferences on his actual gender. His username wasn't identifiably masculine or feminine. He did get some creeps and sexist assholes, but he was pretty lucky…

I saw my mom's enormous, dumb-as-a-rock shar pei mix go through the same with trying to enter the house through the dog door with a frozen-solid dead squirrel.

"I'm just like a entrepreneur whatever..." I think I found my new LinkedIn headline.

My friend from college went to Kenwood during '98-02, some of R. Kelly's prime creeping days. She claimed that she knew the sex tape victim, that everyone at school talked about it and she was this very pretty, smart girl. When we actually saw a picture of the victim she realized she didn't know her at all. At the…

Yeah, I remember this posting going around from years ago, and sylph posted this link from CT from 2009: http://imgur.com/WMOhr

Right, I was just pointing out that Christopher Plummer couldn't sing either. Not saying there weren't plenty of poor casting choices in the NBC version.

To be fair, Christopher Plummer was also an actor who couldn't sing. They had to dub all his vocals.

Wow, good eye! Way to plant, Ann!

I just found out that Michelle Williams' first name is Tenitra! (Thank you RuPaul's Drag Race, the Lost Season) I also wondered if Beyonce's dad was involved in her using her middle name instead, but found no evidence.

You might want to look into some Master's in Public Policy programs, or other education policy related programs. I also considered law school for public interest law and was deterred after researching the dismal stats for employment in public interest. I'd agree with estoppelganger that it's most useful if you want…

Since you mentioned "using sex as a means to control their husbands feels like a fairly recent, sitcom-y phenomenon", I figured fictional comedies would be apt. I'm just pointing out that the theme of the power of women with-holding sex is super old, found in ancient Greece and Shakespeare and beyond.

For an ancient example of using saying no to sex as a means to control men, see Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 411 BC.

I was also prescribed Misoprostol for my IUD insertion and it was AWFUL. I took it at home before heading over to the clinic (my boyfriend drove me) and almost immediately I started getting cramps and contractions so severe I thought my uterus was going to fall out. I ended up staggering into the clinic, sweating…

I'm mostly sure that this is a joke, what with the winky self-aware looks to the camera and the over-the-top glasses-off reveal, but the problem with that is it's just not very funny. This could be funny if it seemed like the artist was being totally sincere, but if she's actually self-aware, she's just not that good…

Ten years ago I was one of 40 valedictorians from a school of about 1800 students in Iowa. It's because we weighted grades for AP classes (of which there were a ton) and anyone who got a 4.0 or above was given the title of valedictorian, though only the top three gave speeches. It was still very academically…

I grew up in Iowa, and knew about Emmett Till starting when I was about 11 or 12. However, I'm not sure I got any of that knowledge from school. I heard about him on the History Channel and Oprah. It struck me because he looked like a kid like me. Anyway, we might have learned about him in AP US history, but it…

Depends on the scope of the source material. But I don't think the white guys were portrayed as passing the 13th amendment out the goodness of their hearts— I think it was pretty clearly a political calculation for most, and a strongly heart-felt issue for a few.

I don't know... Lincoln is based on the biography of Lincoln and some of his cabinet by Doris Kearns Goodwin called "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln". It wasn't really a movie about slavery so much as the wonky political mechanisms behind passing the 13th amendment, which makes the movie…