Yeah, this. I think adopting is incredibly big-hearted and noble...but I’d like a child or two that are biologically mine, first. It’s kind of a silly thing, but the idea of creating a child with my significant other still has romantic value.

Awwww. I hope the little sweetheart grows up to be as smart and pretty as her mom and with a better 3 point shot than her dad. 

This is so true! I work with a girl who has never kissed or anything with her husband to be. They are engaged but are saving anything “carnal” for after marriage. (I, for one, think this is super weird. Also dude was in the military for like 10 years, odds are he is not as chaste as she is. He is also 12 years older…

Exactly.  What are the chances that the one person you find who wants to marry you is also someone that you’re sexually compatible with?  Especially if you know nothing about sex and what you might be into because you haven’t tried anything!  The odds are just so slim!

I am dating a guy who on our second date - and incidentally by the way fourth meeting total not including our solo dates - told me we should wait 1.5 months. I was a little tipsy, but I legit LOL’d and I told him I couldn’t do that. I got my way. ;) Convinced him to come up and he doesn’t regret it. ;) ;) ;) Not only…

Yes! I had a friend who was a virgin until marriage, as was her groom. On the one hand, they are sweet people and I’m glad they found someone else who could share the experience fully. But I was so scared for her! I was like...girl! I hope you and your husband are naturals but geez I hope you know it’s okay if you’re…

Getting married to anyone that you haven’t fucked or lived with first is a big risk. There are MANY potential relationship dealbreakers that are not exposed until those two things happen     

Girl, YAS.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

The thesis here seems like a reach. “Nice guy” - who all these female artists choose to work with - is somehow bad because the press gives him credit for his consistently effective work? Or because they ought to be working only with other women?

Wonderful piece. Thanks for this.

Why is the target of this article Jack? Shouldn’t it be all of the artists who work with him? Why is it his responsibility to say “no” when asked to help with a song or album? Why isn’t it Taylor Swift’s responsibility to not ask him in the first place?

No one should be forced to minimize their own role in a collaborative effort, just as no one should claim sole credit for work that is done in collaboration. The issue is not with Antonoff, but with the media coverage of him.

I feel bad for the mother but...

I think the original with the shirt is hotter. Lisa looks like she isn’t trying as hard as well.

All I know is I had the same ancient, well-honed viewing history (from needless hours of searching for soming NOT BAD to watch) and one New Year’s Eve with Katt Williams fucked it all up.

This is what the American media doesn’t understand. This woman is “tired” of something that doesn’t happen. She’s “tired” of some amorphous, vague, dog-whistled something or other that has never actually caused her a moment’s discomfort in all her damn life.

Re-reading your comment in an old and crotchety voice and I like it better - respect!

I have to say, as someone from the West Indies, I don't understand how African Americans can declare ownership of the spoken word.  I know there is nuances to consider. However, it doesn't matter how you spell it, that word was given to black people by white people to illustrate the subhuman level they wanted for us.…

I respectfully disagree with Monique. The n-word is soaked in the blood of our ancestors and can never be cleansed of that history. It can never be rehabilitated in any form, no matter the spelling. How can it be a term of endearment among our young when its usually the last insult heard as many of them die on our…