No, it’s not “natural” to hit on attractive women. It’s natural to THINK they are attractive. The permission you think you have to hit on them is ALL cultural.

Or, conversely: it’s “natural” to punch men who compete with you. And yet, you don’t.

You have control of the action you take in response to your thoughts. You…

I hear the men I work with all the time talking about how SUUUPER careful they have to be because of sexual harassment laws. What a BURDEN they are.

Oh yes, make sure you whore it up with the makeup so you get the correct hairstyle:

I was 16 and getting ready for my first Homecoming dance with my girlfriends, which I would be attending with my first (and very new) boyfriend. We had scheduled appointments to get our hair done that afternoon, followed by makeup appointments a little later. Thus, it seemed logical to me that I did not have any…

My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.

I think a lot of problems your mother faced were products of the time, plus it seems hers was a more cloistered order.

The treatment of nuns is why I am no longer a Catholic. I grew up in the faith, attending parochial school and going to church every Sunday with my grandmother. But when I was confirmed, I started looking around at the weird pageantry of the church. Little girls wearing wedding dresses for their Communions. Nuns…

My one aunt is a former nun, who left the convent and became a Jew. I have another aunt who is still a nun, and she absolutely hates it. She is a free spirit, and only joined to escape a bad, abusive home situation, just like her sister did. The other nuns are terrible to her- they force her to eat in silence, they…

I was raised Catholic and spent several years being taught by nuns in Catholic school. While most of them were unobjectionable, there were always a few who were evil scions of Hell. I’m sure they went into teaching purely to give maximum expression to their innate sadism.

Wondering how many of the comments will be a version of yours: “your mother’s experience is likely unrepresentative. Instead of listening to her story, let me tell you about these other awesome nuns I know.”

Oh, oh, I have an asshole-nun story.

My place or yours?

A recent study replication suggested that while women could detect flirtation with relative accuracy, men tended to label all interactions with women as “she wants me.”

If I were a creepy guy I would just post super vague descriptions to get as many women as possible

can their new features make him fat and bald already?! jesus.

Remember that lady who called the cops because she saw a woman drinking a beer *and* breastfeeding? Both fields of law and medicine treat pregnant women like children.

Isn't it nearly impossible to determine if some forms of "harm" were produced by drug use versus regular ol' variations of nature making weird sh*t happen?

Exactly! Why do people think that sending people to jail for addictive behavior is going to make them stop? Are these the same people who think shaming fat people is going to make them lose weight?

I get their intent, but addicted women don’t just stop being addicted because they’re pregnant. If they could stop, I’m sure they would. Or you know, if you gave proper access to abortion/family planning clinics maybe you wouldn’t have so many cases.