Though if someone identifies as male, but has yet to change his legal designation and is still considered "female" bc of a birth certificate or whatever, and picks "male" when it's a crime to give "false" information...that could be really bad. There should be some additional legal language to specify that you're not…

Yup. It's amazing how many people forget about Rosalyn. Shakespeare's no idiot; she wasn't just a throwaway bit.

The second one sounds so incredibly and upsettingly detailed.

A friend of a friend either has or plans to get a lower back tattoo in that curly script that reads "fuck the patriarchy."

SO many Shakespeare quotes people throw around are like that! A lot of Polonius lines — this one and "brevity is the soul of wit," and then all of Romeo's inflated rhetoric around Juliet when she was just the next Rosalyn.

I dated a guy for a while with a Smashing Pumpkins tattoo. It was a fun few months, but definitely should not have lasted any longer than it did.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this other places (or other articles here).

Yeah, but she felt super awkward and uncomfortable, and just didn't want to be rude/hoped it was a big error in judgment on the guys part. So I wouldn't say it "worked." http://jezebel.com/the-tragic-tal…

Because it works 1/1000 times?

Could be fb or like...myspace? friendster?

I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable for a 23 yr old not to want to date someone a decade older. It sounds like it was made as a semi-jokey comment with some truth behind it, which seems pretty reasonable.

That sounds really sad. Kinda makes me think of (spoiler) Lorna Morello's storyline.

Because then she'd have to pretend not to know all this stuff about him she knew, which would be a) difficult and b) super creepy

When I was born, my nana tried to get my (8 yrs older than me) brother to say that I was his sister. She asked "who's that?" and got "standpoor," then "who is she to you?" and got "nothing much." (He came around after a couple months).

That's great! But that doesn't work for all parents/all kids. I'm not saying there aren't wrong ways to parent — there certainly are — but there are lots of right ways. This is a very brief clip, and there is no way to say whether this kid's parents are "good" or "bad." Someone was clearly talking to her, asking her…

Yes. I absolutely think blind faith in Israel is foolish, and, frankly, racist (to always assume the worst of Palestine); I also think that ignoring the reasons for Israel's existence, and that the low number of Israeli deaths is largely due to the Iron Dome and not a low number of attacks, etc, is also foolish.

they're talking to her, which is good, and not "shushing" her, which is also good. Letting her cry it out then having a calmer discussion seems pretty ideal.

Yup! I love playing with pretty colors, but I also like my face without makeup, and also I am often just too damn lazy. Assuming women should wear makeup is right there with telling women to smile. I don't care what you think would make me prettier, people.

Could a person then say "she's been really down lately, she must have had too many strawberries..."?

I think avoiding the "of COURSE you want to wear makeup" language is a big part of not sounding ladymag-like? And also maybe some really basic makeup coverage, or makeup coverage for people who wanna do lip/eye things but not wear foundation/all the things foundation requires.