Oh, please, we all know the modern wild women wear burkinis!

Isn't it funny that the abaya is supposed to "protect" women's bodies from the intense inspection of men, yet in your example it was because she was fully covered that he focused on the tiny part of her that wasn't...

See Also #2 especially on Heartless Bitches Intl.'s "'NiceGuy', 'Asshole' - Different Sides of the Same Coin?"

Just a friendly smile can get you in trouble, even if you give that same smile to old couples holding hands, kids playing in a sprinkler, two dogs wrasslin' - it's still interpreted by some men as "I want your pants off NOW!" Sigh.

Ah, you are speaking of the Nice Guy...

Disbelief tends to knock the lenses out of those rose-tinted glasses. It's almost second-sight, although I tend to believe that it's more true to say it's first-sight, meaning perhaps people without belief see the world as it IS, not as they'd like it to be. And since the world can be a horrifying place [but also, of…

I tried going to a few local meetings and in one - NA - was so headlight-deered by the careful, pointed attention of a garrulous Man of Many Stories and Much Experience that I doubted my strength in saying no if he ever got me solo and worked that kind of emotional manipulativeness unhindered on me... maybe I…

You underestimate the intelligence of a border collie: they are waaay too smart to waste their time getting advanced degrees...

Gandhi always knew how to handle conflict...

We need to turn that People Whisperer back on ourselves, not our SO. I have found that the certain type of man who uses this ploy is highly resistant to change and to self-reflection. You can try to work it out as a couple, but when one partner is emotionally dishonest, the best solution is to leave.

One personal reason it's "wrong" to live in the midst of filth: still-squirming up-ended cockroaches make a cracking sound and disgusting yellow crap comes out when you accidentally bare-footedly step on their carcasses in the kitchen. But perhaps that's more of a personal preference, to avoid that sort of thing by…

"the goal is always the same: To get the woman who's on his case to back off and swallow her own anger."

Any evidence making a to-do list is actually productive? What if there is at least one blog post to the contrary? What if it seems self-evident that instead of writing down what you have to do, to instead, do that.

At least Frances Bean is doing ok, despite the Hole that is her "biological mother".

Oh, heart to you LightWeightLola! I'm so glad you are in a healthy place. I've been on the edge of ED but what saved me is replacing the idea of being "skinny" (i.e., socially accepted appearance) with being fit (i.e., healthy). It truly is about being strong in body and that means not buying into the myth of thinness…

Anybody else just see this as a natural continuum from Beauty Pageant/"Dance Moms" through Bridezillas/"My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding"?

Ever since I was a kid I've loved sharks. Moving to a 3 mile island in the middle of the Pacific at 7 years old helps with developing an almost mythological feeling about them.

You want everything for yourself, you greedy bitch! How dare you think that you are entitled to basic decent humane living, a standard of existence that takes into account your needs, your hopes? A bit high-maintence are we, dearie? It's all about you, with the wimmenz - aren't you all supposed to be nurturing and…

Oh, yes, you're quite right, and they'd all be Bedazzled!

Well said. Perhaps some of the ambivalence about "coming out" as an atheist - for some people - is the social derision they expect, so they soften the contempt they believe others will show (and they do show it without a pause) by saying they are agnostic. It can be difficult to assert one's beliefs in the face of…