One question about that study saying that people are increasingly choosing mates from a similar socio-economic class....isn’t that just because in 1960 women didn’t attend college at the same rate as men, and even if they did, they were unlikely to earn high salaries?

I don’t think most people want to face up to the fact of how much their ideas of beauty and what’s appealing is influenced by society’s ideals and what they’ve been exposed to. They’d rather throw up their hands and claim what they like is inherent, rather than examine their biases and broaden their horizons. While…

Population control seems to be a solution eternally in search of a problem, and its proponents are almost always willing to ally themselves with really nasty people.

Not quite the same thing, but when I was waitressing there was another girl working there who was underage and couldn’t serve alcohol. She worked the late morning/early afternoon shift so there weren’t a lot of heavy drinkers, but every time someone ordered a beer the bartender would have to bring it out to the table.…

“Don’t do that thing, find a new job where you don’t have to do that thing!”

Screw it, my giant, muscle ladden calves need the give and taper of a flare back in my jeans. I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years.

I still don’t understand why guys get all up in arms when a woman wants to split the check. On the other hand, it might be a good way to get guys to self-select on the first date: if they have issues with going dutch, maybe they are not worth your time.

Research has proven time and time again that simultaneous or sequencial bilingualism don’t have a negative impact on language learning and development. One language actually supports the other and there are serious neurological benefits, especially on attention control. Professionals who say the minority language…

The lecturing sounds terrible. Maybe the next time he does it, you could suggest splitting house & utility expenses in a weighted fashion based on your incomes, instead of 50-50, so that you could save more from your salary? (Fake-innocent) surely, based on his concern, he would like to do that? (And if no — okay, end…

People who do not split the bill down the middle, despite what you ordered, are the damn devil.

I always split the check with good friends with whom I eat out a lot. Sometimes the split is not totally fair (you had two glasses of wine, I had four; you had a salad and I didn’t) but it’s all a wash in the end. And my friendships are worth more than arguments over $20.

This just happened to my roommate last night. Some girl we went to HS with posted some crazy thing about a Tampa child trafficking ring and someone trying to take a woman’s child and shutting down a Target because of it. As I was googling to find if Snopes had anything, she posted the snopes link in a comment and the…

Can I just say here how much I love Snopes, and that the dumb shit people believe astonishes me?

My parents gave me the “please don’t drink, but if you do or your friends do and you don’t feel safe just call us. Never, EVER drive drunk or get in a car with someone who’s been drinking.” I feel like that was the right strategy.

I’m not even going to lie. If I didn’t work, I’d be a professional introvert and would double up on my boringness by spending more time reading and playing video games.

Do yourself a favor and go home and make this salad. It’s fucking delicious.

I’m a big fan of dark greens + fruit + cheese + nut. Pear/blue cheese/walnut, strawberry/goat cheese/sliced almonds, etc. I am kitchen/flavor challenged, but even I can manage to whip up something fancy-looking with this framework.

Sautée mushrooms with shallots in a little bacon grease, salt and pepper. Put on top of a large bowl of fresh baby spinach leaves, with a medium-boiled egg quartered, bacon bits, green onions, a little bleu cheese, and drizzle a warm, homemade honey Dijon dressing over top.

“Who is Alanis?”

I think a sign that pretty much says outright that women are possessions of one man (father) to be turned over to other men to be fucked can be connected to rape culture without much of a stretch. You may find the signs harmless, and maybe they are, but if rape culture is at least partly about denying females the…