Ha! I hear ya about the gold thing! What made it especially annoying is that I grew up borderline-poor, but nobody will ever acknowledge that such a thing as a poor Jewish person exists, and even nowadays if, in a large crowd of friends/acquaintances where it's known that I'm Jewish, and I just order a salad and tea…

As an American and a non-Christian, it's so nice to see someone else say this! I belong to some children-of-abusive-parents-type forums, and I always point out that forgiveness-as-a-necessary-step is a Christian thing and not a universal thing, and that it's only one way to handle the situation and not a better or…

Oh my goodness, yes! I lived in a commune in Finland for a while where we had a Sissi movie marathon while we gorged ourselves on pies that we made. These dresses will always remind me of pie. They are also so gorgeous.

Blech, I just took their dumb quiz and entered my email, only to be shown one bra and be told, "you'd be most comfortable with a bra outside of our size range." Well then, what good is it? The rest of the world caters to that narrow range, so this is hardly revolutionary. And their pitiful excuse for not having "rare"…

Me too! What the fuck is this when MEN can go outside shirtless without censure but women aren't supposed to have nipples at all?! I will never ever buy a fucking padded or foam-laden bra. I'm a 32/34 F (probably a G or else that it's only that my bras are all four years old and lost their structure) and I am not…

Exactly! I used to work at the National Museum of the American Indian, and he was very popular there for that reason. I always had a good opinion of him. This is pretty crushing.

Thanks! I think it was partly jealousy and partly just one manifestation of her undiagnosed personality disorders. People who can do things she couldn't or have qualities she didn't are meeeaaannnnn, and fascists, and bullies—that kind of thing. I know, it doesn't make much sense.

I wonder if that might be like, "behave in this stereotypical way that I despise so I can have a reason to reject you whenever I want. NO?? You're 'unnatural!'" (That is, if "unnatural" means "not doing what I want or think you should do.")

Dammit Kinja, I wasn't done yet, and it won't let me delete/edit...oh well. Anyway, I was trying to say that I sympathize with the second mother. I hear colic can be an absolute beast, and getting no sleep for days/weeks/months can really, really ruin your life and propel you off the deep end to depression. Not…

Iagree! I sympathize with the second mother espe

I'll have to add this to the list of the many nice things I hear about life in the UK! That's awesome. I can't imagine what it must be like, but it's awesome.

This is an ignorant question because I met Mr. Chortcake when he was 24 and I was 26 and it's ten years later and we're married so I've never had to deal with this issue, but: are you at all interested in younger men? Some of them are not such assholes about the must-have-2+-years-between-us-in-the-correct-direction,…

Oh, f*** those TI calculators and the insensitive assholes who insist that every student is responsible for providing them. I couldn't afford one either and my bitch of a math teacher forced me out of Honors math because of it. Her reason was that I was getting Cs on all my tests—because of not being able to use one,…

This is exactly me. Only in middle school they would always say I was a "straight A student by day, stripper by night." I didn't even know what a stripper WAS until after they started saying that. I was miserable in expensive old-lady bras that were bought to fit me after I was "measured," but were still way too wide…

LITTLE BO PEEP FUCKED A LEOPARD! That is beautiful. And so painfully apt. (I'm a 32.5 F, so.)

This happened to my across-the-hall neighbor's cat too! On the 16th floor, also in Canada, incidentally. We adopted two kittens at around the same time she adopted a kitten. Once I heard meowing in the morning coming from far away and my two were going haywire. I looked out of the window on the ground and couldn't see…

I think I know what you mean—I feel sexy and kind of truly IN my body for the first time after having a baby, and it's kind of weird to me that we're supposed to hide our bodies now. It reminds me of how, as a 23-26 year old graduate student, I finally got the confidence to wear sort of Catholic-school-looking…

Yes! In Helsinki too! I also once saw a woman who must have been in her sixties with two braids, and she looked awesome. I miss that about living there. I look at hel-looks.com for nostalgia's sake.

This is actually why I have long hair now (I'm 36 and the mom of a toddler). People sometimes ask me when I'm going to cut it, even though it's healthy and nice and very well-maintained. I actually contemplate a bob every so often, but every time someone hints that it's time to cut it now that I'm SO OLD and a mom, my…

For some reason that cheese souffle story is warming my heart. Also, pickled plums are great!