Our cat loved the tampon game growing up, so the protocol was just to tie off the mini bathroom garbage bag and throw it into the kitchen garbage whenever you put a tampon in it. It was one of those pull-out ones built in behind a cabinet; I swear I saw that cat pout whenever she saw it open and then close.

Yeah, really. Also who are all these pet owners who don't have a trash can with a lid?

Okay, I have to be honest I had NO IDEA that anybody actually flushes these things down the toilet. Whenever I read the sings in public restrooms asking people not to flush sanitary goods I always wonder who would do such a thing. I think I just went through puberty knowing that you wrap it in the plastic of the next…

YES! I leave my car unlocked sometimes because I keep seeing stories about car thieves who got in a stick shift and then just left it there because they couldn't drive it. Beats an alarm!

"Before the note however, Chen's family says he exhibited little signs of high risk behavior before his death and, like the other Woodson kids who took their own lives, he earned good grades, had a stable family and excelled at sports."

I'm pretty sure my status as An Old has been cemented, and if it hasn't, it will be now. Spring Break '93 and my friends and I decide to fly out and crash at my roommate's brother's apartment in West Hollywood. Well, one of my friends' boyfriends was a big tattoo guy, and he wanted a t-shirt from Sunset Strip Tattoos,…

I think that it's best if people accept that there's always going to be some squishiness when it comes to +1s. Don't be too cross if your +1 isn't invited (absent signs of bias and the like), and don't be too cross if your guest chooses to decline rather than to come solo.

We did dates for everyone who had been dating longer than 6 months, all members of the wedding party (because they're going above and beyond the typical guest), and anyone who didn't know a lot of people at the wedding (because no one wants to be alone and without a buddy at a wedding reception). I hope this was…

Um...actually no, good partners are not easily found, which is why so many women struggle. It's bad form to show you're struggling, though, and besides nobody wants to hear it. So in general you don't.

This is one of the only places I can bitch about that stuff. I'm not for making babies, and I don't want to pretend to care constantly about baby everything. Sorry you don't like it, I'm sure you can get your baby love at some mommy blog.

It's not that eerie! Pregnancies and tumors have one thing in common: both have to grow really fast and take up a lot of nutrients in order to be successful. Naturally they share some genes which help them achieve these ends. Pregnancies of course use these genes by design, while cancers acquire access to these genes…

Etiquette 101: any adult invited to an event is given a plus one.

Well that's what happens when you continue to socialise contemporary men in the same manner as you did their great grandfathers.

Oh no, now you're going to get the hordes of LaLeches:

As a scientist, I will go on record as saying that if you don't breastfeed, you are ruining your child's future. They will never accomplish anything substantial in their lives and you are LITERALLY HITLER.

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Yup. It's a very deliberate omission. I've dug into the site in search of any kind of official descriptor labelling the site as feminist as part of a media research project, and while it may be considered "feminist lite" to its readership, in any official capacity, it eschews the label.

I'm only 22 and it makes me feel weary. The navel gazing of today's feminist movement is exhausting. And I feel like the real focus of feminism gets lost in the hubbub. It actually pains me when people say things like the feminist utopia is every baby getting a copy of the Second Sex, when, from my viewpoint, our…

This post just made me feel weary. I'm almost 50 and was raised by a feminist way back when, so these discussions just seem oh, so overwrought.