I’m not defending the “trash the dress” thing, but I wonder if many people know that you can donate your wedding dress. I would guess that perhaps some people would think that no one would want a used wedding dress unless it was handed down in the family, and so they might not even know that donating is a thing that…

The way some people “afford” things in other places bothers me, because other people, who often have less than you, are subsidizing your free rides on public transportation and have taxes/loss of revenue from your shoplifting. If you were able to travel because you just stole stuff to cover what you couldn’t buy, then…

My mistake! I missed that part, and while he seems pretty douchey, I wanted to be certain that I was criticizing him for the right stuff (as there seems to be plenty).

Honestly, gum does not cover bad breath for me. It’s just mint/gum scent mixed in with the plaque scent. Nothing really takes care of bad breath except flossing and brushing. A really good mouthwash can help, but not if you haven’t flossed in a while.

This is what I wonder about the people who don’t like vegetables. I mean, it’s probably not fair of me, because I’ve always loved vegetables, even as a little kid, but like... do you poop? Do you get scurvy? Don’t you feel a little gross from the scurvy from not having any fruits or vegetables in your diet? How little…

Do we know if he has kids or a wife? I didn’t see a mention of them, but I didn’t look outside this article, either. “Family time” could mean all kinds of things, and if he doesn’t have any young children, it could be a lot easier to schedule.

I remember asking my mom the same thing, and her answer was that when I was an adult, I could eat or not eat whatever I wanted, but as long as I was a kid, I had to eat what I was given. It wasn’t my money spent on that food, so I shouldn’t complain. I was a very picky eater, though I’m not anymore. The freedom to…

I was sort of a douchey turd in high school, too. Somehow, I sort of believed that there were tricks to manipulating people into doing what you wanted, and that these PUAs had some sort of life experience I hadn’t yet.

Being that he lived half a world away, has no car, and my sincere hope is that we never see nor talk to each other again, I think it’s okay that I deleted his game files. If they were so important, he should have asked for them back.

Haha, total badass over here. :D

My ex asked me not to date a mutual friend (we lived like, a 20-hour drive from each other, so that was pretty unlikely) or sabotage their friendship. I indeed did not date that friend. I did start a friends-with-benefits relationship that continues to this day (when we feel like it, and now we live across an ocean…

Yes, there is! I was down for about two years, but I’m much better now. It gets easier. It never totally goes away, like any sad thing, but it becomes the kind of thing that you’re like, “Oh, yeah, that was a bummer,”, and not immediate-tears-and-hiding anymore.

I have been trying, without success, to convince a friend that it is completely okay not to be friends with someone you were sleeping with. This person clearly does not want to be friends, but doesn’t know how to tell her (they have a lot of overlap in their friend circles). She keeps telling me that she’s always been…

My partner of 4 years Skyped me one week after we’d been shopping for tickets for me to go and see him and talking about how we were really happy and blah blah blah and he was like, “Oh, so... yeah, I’m ending it,”. This was conveniently after he had a “workshop” with his boss, who was a lady and Asian (and he had an…

No, I agree with you. I think this feature is in poor taste.

That’s a very good point, and I hadn’t thought of it that way. Personally, I haven’t been harassed with being called names in the street - most of my harassment has been non-sexual in nature, and the comments I saw at the time were of feeling invisible, so I extrapolated from there. But you’re right: there’s also the…

To me, it’s so obvious that these people target kids because the kids have absolutely no idea what to do. They’re scared, they don’t know what resources are out there, and they’re afraid to get themselves in trouble. An adult woman might know how to get rid of them, to threaten them, or to actually cause consequences,…

I contributed to that thread because I thought that it was an interesting addition to the conversation, but honestly, I don’t think it should have been posted here. This was supposed to be about when you did experience harassment, and while some of us haven’t, I think it’s good to have the focus be on the people who…

There are so many ways to have sex that don’t involve penile penetration, particularly if you have a fetish (or your partner has one). There are lots of workarounds that can make things more comfortable for someone who has difficulty with having their genitals touched.

I’m a PhD student with two part-time jobs, so any time I get to go somewhere else, it’s a huge disruption in my schedule and throws me behind on work. While I do like going new places, I often dread traveling, because I get motion sick very easily, and I don’t do well on a lack of sleep. I’m also an exceptionally…