But who do black people think you are?

It looks like an anti-vegetarian name, the way our fake meat has misspelled names like Chik'n—maybe something that looks and tastes like a cucumber, but is made out of bacon.

TBH, I might have asked the fat-free question as a joke, and with a totally deadpan delivery—if the server got it and laughed, cool, if not I would have just said never mind. I do the same thing to my doctors when they ask if I'm sexually active—I almost always reply, "No, mostly I just lay there." 4 out of 5…

Maybe if male cabbies start losing revenue to these women-only services they'll figure it out. I've been taking cabs as a single woman for over 30 years and it is really disturbing when the driver keeps asking intensely personal questions or wants to know if I'm married, can he call me, can he come up to use the…

I accidentally came across it once and they were doing an episode about land use rights (Apple Jack's orchard vs. the "native" Buffalo) —it was more nuanced than anything I'd seen on CNN or other "serious" media.

I wore a Rainbow Dash patch on the hips of my running tights when I did my first marathon. I don't know that anybody noticed, but it made me about 20% cooler.

You know what, if their takeaway, whatever it is, gets them to think twice before groping someone, I don't care what it is. I'm guessing that the absolutely reasonable lesson that you suggest would be lost on this sort of person.

The problem with this kind of "joking" is that there really aren't any other voices out there advocating *for* larger bodies. The only discourse is LOL Fatty! especially for men. Not OK.

I never knew they could get that big, which makes this all the more awesome.

I'm super sad because a linen dress I made in 1990 is finally starting to wear through right when my perfect pair of ten year old black pants started to give way as well. I don't think I ever intended for it to be such a staple, but it is a very simple, long dress and really has not gone out of style (to the degree…

I've taught a few friends to sew. One of them, who doesn't actually do much sewing, told me it was incredibly useful for being able to judge the quality of off-the-rack clothing now. She checks every seam, lining and grainline now. Makes my heart happy.

Another middle-aged friend and I (she African American, me more-or-less white) went to see a comedy show hosted by an old friend. All of the comics on that particular night were men and most of them were in their 20s. Three comics made jokes about choking women during sex. I get it, it is a running joke on Archer. …

Ooh, you know what would work—if a male Senator went undercover as a woman and then published his thoughts and feelings on how what women have been saying all along is really real because there's no way it could be unless validated by a man.

Ding!! and upper-middle-class for the bonus.

I totally agree—this fellow wasn't looking for nuanced discussion though, so it was easier to blow his mind by just saying yes. Even more amusing was that he was of a certain economic class and complexion that would likely grant him a way to avoid serving in harm's way even if it came to that.

I was having a discussion with someone recently who tried to challenge my feminism with "Would you be in favor of women being drafted?" To which I replied, "Of course." He sort of sputtered, "Oh, all right then," as if he were expecting an argument otherwise.

That was my absolute favorite part—as if feminists wouldn't agree that there should be more women in those jobs!

I've had exactly one interaction in my 48 years that made me laugh and that I actually took as a compliment and it happened just a few weeks ago—I was walking through Chelsea and a gentleman smiled, said "you look like Wonder Woman! Have a good day." Perhaps the reason it didn't bother me is because I could easily…

Team Cat Headquarters! Like Anonymous (Anonymouse?) but competent.

I would have just installed a spigot in my wall and made bank off the locally sourced honey. I'm glad they were able to humanely move the bees. Bees are awesome.