Has been true for a long time, in my experience. Especially since upper management at news organizations tends to look like upper management at most large companies—white, male, and old. That impacts who is considered suitable for "important" jobs further down the line. I would say most of the problem lies with them,…

I just have trouble listening to people who refuse to admit that there are ever degrees of difference in anything. Because I assume they're insane. I like going to the beach; should I quit my job and leave behind my friends and family and go live on an island in the Caribbean? I'm comfortable adding some sriracha to…

I mean, take away the cameras and put everyone in separate apartments and isn't that just...dating? I'm not arguing that the environment of the show is normal, but sleeping with a few women you're dating before deciding to marry one of them isn't exactly transgressing any social norms. Once again, you're talking about…

Like I said—you have some totally logical ideas about the way things ought to be. You're welcome to not care about it, and maybe no one *should* care, but that's not the way it is. I'm just saying that it's not incredible at all that Chris would be uncomfortable seeing nude pictures online of a woman he personally…

Why? Because, um, there is still a general standard in our society that we don't normally show our sexual organs to the general public. I presume you are aware of it and are playing devil's advocate, but in case it needs to be spelled out...that's why most public places that allow toplessness (for men and women) do…

I dunno, I thought that, and then I googled the pictures. I have now seen Jade's labia minora, and so can you, and so can everyone. It's not that nudity is a big deal, but you can kind of see why this isn't something her family and various guys have shrugged off as, whatever, nudity. Imagine moving to bumfuck Iowa…

Oh she could DEF do better. Chris would go up in my esteem significantly if he recognizes that. But like you, I kind of hope he doesn't.

I adore Whitney. I think she is either the best person who has ever been on this show, or the smartest contestant, and I actually like her equally much regardless of which it is. She has been so consistent about the kind of personality she projects, and so normal and rational in all her interactions, she is coming out…

Whitney DID get the friend nod, though. I think that's important. And a guy who follows his tongue around like a divining rod doesn't seem to me like the type of guy who will marry a virgin. My guess is that Becca will confess her virgin status the night of the Fantasy Suite, and he'll say he's cool with it but then…

I think as much as Chris is a reaction to Juan Pablo, Andi is a guarantee that we won't get Kaitlyn. They're not going to go for a smart, funny girl twice in a row.

Okay. I don't believe in slut-shaming, but Jade's labia are on full display to the entire internet. Drawing a line at a tiny bikini is...drawing a line. I don't consider myself a modest woman by any means, but I would not ever put myself in a position where a stranger was airbrushing my genitals, and I don't think we…

This sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. Do tell.

Right underneath the title, right next to the byline it says "Filed To: Genetic Sexual Attraction." That wasn't a clue?

This isn't an underwear ad, but if it was, I would consider buying those pants.

No I totally agree. I don't think she freezes her out. I think she is probably basically civil and nice enough, which is why photos of them look like two acquaintances instead of two girlfriends caught in the middle of an actual conversation—because that's the level on which she's keeping it. And I honestly don't…

I mean, I don't think she does. But what human woman has never had to quietly tolerate the mildly annoying partner of one of their partner's friends? Like, in my own life-which-is-nothing-like-Beyonce's, I don't really care if they break up or get divorced. I just will never, ever be friends with that girl because…

Jennifer Weiner wrote a longform piece on this topic in ELLE in 2007, Jonathan Franzen! http://www.elle.com/culture/books/…

I mean, I live in New York too. And seriously, does what you save on rent even balance out what it costs to move multiple times and keep paying brokers' fees and storing shit? I have friends who do this and it makes literally no fucking sense to me, not to mention it basically requires you to have a boyfriend or be in…

Those are exactly the words my dad said when my mom told him that she wouldn't do a long-distance relationship because he got a new job after 3 months of dating! She told him either they get married or they break up, and that was what came out of his mouth. He says it's the only thing he's ever regretted about their…

The kind of people who think about money in the context of investing are not the kind of people who fall prey to the lottery curse. Those people are for the most part relatively low-income, less educated, and have little or no experience managing money, and a (perhaps not surprising) number of them suffered previously…