@jkrell: You would literally threaten someone with a gun over a nuisance?

@voteforme: Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean here, but the proscriptions against girls playing with 'boy toys' or wearing 'boy colors' are nowhere near as pronounced as vice versa. Because the core of the problem is that people think of 'girl stuff' as being demeaning. 'Boy stuff' isn't, so it's usually…

@voteforme: People worry way too much about raising their kids to conform so they won't get picked on.

@amowls: And make sure that you really support animal rights, rather than animal welfare.

There is nothing I can think of that is more demeaning and more sexually objectifying of girls and women than the status of virginity.

I am not a hoarder, but I do tend to accumulate some types of clutter, and I often find myself empathizing with the people on those hoarding shows.

@timgray: The Chumby by my bed has a very handy darkening feature as part of the firmware. Just hit 'night' on the control panel. It's adjustable for darkness level, and it even has an option to darken completely.

One cautionary note about sleep disorder clinics: We really don't know much about sleep, and sleep apnea is one of the easiest and most lucrative sleep disorders to treat. As such, many if not most sleep clinics are built expressly for the purpose of diagnosing sleep apnea—they're hammers out looking for nails.

@hanmeng: I have a kind of OCD against matching or something, so I actually prefer having different sized and shaped spice jars.

@elizawhat: Not everything has to be something you're 'ashamed' of or something you've brought upon yourself.

I don't see how women internalizing the straight male gaze is positive for women, anyway.

@hewhoroams: What's up with the (female)? Do you think that's somehow relevant?

@RickS: My first experience with recruiters searching for personal information was in the early to mid 90s. Some HR person looked me up and found some Usenet post that she thought indicated I had a chronic illness, and called a former coworker of mine to ask him. (I didn't—she was just stupid; and I wasn't even…

@Anycah: I don't have social anxiety, but I am an extreme introvert. I just don't enjoy small talk and arbitrary socializing. It's annoying, tedious, and ultimately taxing.

@aja175: Le Creuset is nice, but it's very expensive, and it's enameled, so it not only doesn't develop the non-stick surface that properly seasoned cast iron does, but it eventually ends up chipping.

@rnrxtreme: I have it set up to charge my credit card every 3 months, so all I do is make sure it's right four times a year, which it always has been. It's no hassle.

I don't like talking on the phone, and I work from home where we have a landline, so I'm pretty sure I've gone for a month at a time sometimes when I didn't use my cell at all. However, every now and again, I'll have spurts where I'm away from home for extended periods, or in emergency situations, where I depend on…

@SarsDoesntSave: Most people aren't really aware of their ties, and it can be a very difficult thing to bring up to people who are emotionally invested in the cause already. (I kept my mouth shut when a coworker whose best friend had just died from breast cancer was soliciting support. I just couldn't say anything.)

@Furface: The Komen Foundation doesn't care. They are very closely aligned with the pharmaceutical industry (and with George W. Bush), and they have steadfastly avoided anything having to do with actually preventing breast cancer—just diagnosing and curing it.

@MagImpalor: I'm not the OP, but in a nutshell: No.