I'd say the exception is men for whom English is a second (or third or ninth) language.

I have a lot of male coworkers, and many of them have English as a second language. This is the rule I use for them when they innocently say something like "We should have a female in that meeting" (usually because it's a product oriented to women or the proposed team is all-male):

It sounds like the unlocked gun is a display rifle, like a saloon might have on a wall. Not a free-floating handgun a toddler might grab.

Those were more like State-sanctioned brothels. Still not a fair setup and one for which the women involved are suing, but it's controversial to compare them to the Japanese sex slave system that literally imprisoned women for serial rape.

Yes. It was something inflicted on the Koreans by the Japanese, which makes this particular attempt at comedy really shit.

This is a pretty hideous thing to say, even if your Inane Comment Generator recognized the words "women" and "Korean" and "army" and spat it out at random.

This fact has been my absolute favorite discovery this winter - I cannot wait to have a baby and leave it in the snow for an hour. What did the article say, something like "they nap outside until it's too cold, around 5 F?"

I unapologetically love snowstorms, but I say that as a person who has the ability to cancel all her plans the day the storm hits (and of course if it's a BAD storm, everything gets cancelled for you). In the early days I would use a vacation day.

It's shelf-stable milk. I buy it in November and throw it in a cupboard so if I get snowed in I don't have to worry about the power staying on to enjoy hot chocolate. I think it lasts about 6 months.

What confuses me about this phenomenon is... people, there's shelf-life milk. You can go out and buy it at any time, it lasts for ages, you do not need to be part of this panicky rush. You can even buy it right now, because most people see an empty dairy case and wail in anguish before buying up all the yogurt and…

This is an EXCELLENT point - though I drove to get cookie dough. IT WAS IMPORTANT.

My mother once tracked down a landlord to go into my apartment because she was sure I was dead, having realized I hadn't emailed her in a few days and then unable to reach me by phone for 24 hours (I'd unwittingly shut the ringer off).

I react to snow days now exactly the way I reacted to snow days in elementary school: sheer unadulterated joy. Anyone who reacts otherwise does not DESERVE to survive the blizzard.

Excellent point - I risk only squirrels and rats, both of which I am pretty confident I can scare off. Raccoons are where I start getting concerned, and fuck no, bears. No.

This is true - I think we've all been conditioned to think an open gas valve equals instant fireball, probably from chemistry teachers who didn't want us blowing up the lab.

Yeah, I remember milk crystalizing one long outage. But it turns out milk then can be thawed and makes damn fine cocoa, so hooray!

Remember everyone: the purpose of the fridge/freezer in your life is to keep food cold. So if there's a snowstorm that knocks out the power, you have not lost your only supply of food: you can take advantage of that SAME SNOW and just put a bunch of stuff from your fridge outside.

Start with "a flashlight app is not a flashlight. Get a flashlight".

I will never remember chicken pox as anything but wonderful, since I got them in my throat (and ONLY in my throat) and Dr Michelson just gave me his most serious look while telling my mom "Well, there's only one cure I can think of - we have to get a lot of ice cream into this kid".

Hey, sometimes it doesn't have to be your blood relative, it can be someone who was merely RAISED as your blood relative and who you only find out isn't related to you by blood long after the point it would've been relevant to the taboo!