I'm on OKC and it is the best policy to exchange a couple friendly messages and then meet up for a drink/coffee. Anytime it goes beyond that it is somehow misleading or a let down because you build someone up in your head, and it's so incredibly important to have an automatic chemical connection in person (in my…

Yes, my point was absolutely that all men are sinister and not that this particular man is tiresome. I hid it very cleverly and you are to be congratulated for finding my secret message.

Good breakdown of why his conclusions are dumb. I have found no lack of people interested in having meaningful conversations on OKCupid. Generally, if you find that all your conversations are shallow and boring, the problem is probably you. You're the common factor.

Men have no idea what tampons and pads cost and how deeply essential they are. There's a huge stigma about menstruation that makes a dude buying tampons for his usually overly emotional girlfriend into a tired TV comedy show trope. Women in poor countries either have nothing to bleed into it (and lose jobs and school…

Depends on her definition of "fight" maybe? Or, like I imagine many trolls to be, he's a spineless dweeb in real life and releases the anger he has no constructive outlets for on internet people he perceives as weak and identity-less. ...which is more or less what he admitted to her. Ugh.

I have stains that aren't period stains. I have discharge stains. Many. Am I actually the only one on earth, or is talking about discharge such a taboo that no one will admit it?

"[Firth] has a briefly seen, occasionally mentioned fiancée named Olivia (Catherine McCormack), who is a fellow skeptic and an intellectual peer, meaning that she has no chance with him."

I don't think you understand what ROYGBIV is about. It's all political here. This is an LGBT+ News, commentary, and discussion part of the Jezebel domain on Gawker Media. So fine, let's talk about the unrealistic expectations of the fashion industry, but let's not do it at the expense of women's bodies. Not those of…

How exactly did you miss that the model is a woman? How on earth did you get to the article without reading the title?

Wow. Trans women models are still women. Whether you realise it or not you are currently body shaming. There's absolutely no tolerance for that here.

What do you even get out of misgendering someone? I mean, it costs nothing to just be decent about people's selves. It literally affects you in no way.

I run a public library, and we briefly had an ESL instructor earlier this year. The teacher was a nightmare; disorganized, chronically late, completely okay giving preferential treatment to some students, oh, and racist against black people. I now wonder which friends and relatives posed as the teacher's references,…

Not necessarily. Women are more likely than men to stay in a relationship with bad sex but everything else good. There's also the fact that women are socialized to not be as assertive about sex, so even if things aren't good, we're less likely to bring it up because that sort of behavior can be stigmatized (it's…

Actually, having seen a fair amount of this stuff (I was in Supernatural fandom for WAAAAAAAY too long), the power dynamics are usually much closer to male-on-female than male-on-male, but also closer to male-on-female creature that only exists in misogynists' fevered imaginings than male-on-female. The "bitch" (i.e.,…

DO YOU NOT WANT ME TO APPROVE OF YOU? DO YOU NOT WANT MY APPROVAL???

A lot of people would have just frozen and done nothing. Acting sensibly after your family has been executed, and you have been shot in the head, is actually quite impressive.

Seriously...plastic whatever the fuck is driving me nuts

Slightly OT, but can someone here tell me how to report or block comments that are racist on Kinja?

This domestic abuse scenario happened in our family. We helped a friend escape her abusive husband. She had to transport her children from another state to stay with us. As soon as she got to our home, she let the DA's office know that she was there, and not kidnapping her children.

I had a hard time looking at pictures of these guys before any of this shit. Now it's all I can do to scroll down to the text fast before the image loads. Fuuuuck.

And my theory still stands: Men who exclusively seek teenage or early twenty-something women aren't caving to some bullshit subconscious fertility science…