I have been on every side of this. Years ago I L.I.V.E.D. in heels. 12 hour days in 2"-3" heels? NBD. I could sprint in those fuckers, forward and backward. I got a bit older, changed jobs (to one where being "dressy" was not a requirement), gained some weight and heels became torture implements of the devil. Having…

Yeah. The older brother (apparently) said that he didn't have American friends/didn't understand Americans, but the younger brother seems to have been as American as apple pie. Tamerlan fits the "outcast foreigner" stereotype, Dzhokar doesn't really seem to. TBH I wonder if he got swept up in his brother's stuff. Your…

What I like is the V-neck. I always put hospital gowns on backwards because I HATE the high neck on them. It always presses up against my throat. Every time I do that the nurse always says "um, you have it on backwards." Yeah, I know. Now I don't feel like I am being garroted by someone with very weak hands and I can…

For the confused Non-Greek. Greek Week is an event where sororities and fraternities are matched up to form teams. During the day they have "sporting" competitions (think Field Day in Elementary school) like tug of war, kickball, volleyball, and crap like that. At night they have drinking competitions (depending on…

This is fairly "meh." to me. While the bindi does have religious significance it isn't a purely religious symbol, it is also cultural, divorced of religious implication. Non-Hindu women throughout southeast Asia wear bindi as fashion, not religion.
If you are going to call her out on cultural appropriation then you…

My favorite reply to the "Nice 'First world Problem' there" folks and the "That isn't the BIG problem, this is" types is: Someone else's broken leg doesn't make my ingrown toe nail stop hurting or no longer need treatment.
Issues, problems, and Bad Shit come in all shapes and sizes. Just because there is (arguably)…

Pitch Perfect was much better than I expected. I am wary of a sequel simply because I expected the first movie to be pretty awful and was pleasantly surprised that it didn't suck. A sequel will have to do a lot more than just "not suck" for me to enjoy it. To be clear, I *like* Pitch Perfect I'm just not sure how much…

ooooh yeah! That makes sense. Pod gets a super confidence builder, the whole "we need details" thing puts Pod on more even footing with Tyrion and Bronn (Master of Coin may not be able to have Pod knighted and get him the elevated social standing that comes with being a knight but Bronn and Tyrion asking for sex…

"Don't" and "can't" don't mean the same thing. His implication is that the majority of women CAN'T hunt/work in construction/fight in the military, not the majority of women DON'T hunt/work in construction/fight in the military. He is using the don't as proof of the can't. The anecdotal information I provided wasn't…

I agree.

O.K. I was serious about not understanding exactly what was being said. If you could explain that would be great. What I thought was being said was if you put all human strength on a chart, 0-10, men would fall in the 5-10 range and women would fall in the 0-4 range with most men around 7 and most women around 3...…

But that is still sticking with the "women are physically weaker" nonstarter that I am not disagreeing with. Women, on average, are physically weaker than men. I am not denying that. I wold never suggest that the average woman is stronger than the average man. It just isn't true. The thing I (and it would seem the…

Yes! Thank you! As a large woman (meaning 5'10" and fit) I have often responded to over generalized statements about the physical strength of women with "Who would you rather have try pull you out of a burning building? Me? Or that 5'3" out of shape dude?" In a survival scenario some women and some men would just be…

I think the gripe isn't about "women are generally physically weaker than men That's science." I think the gripe is with the idea that the most important thing in a survival scenario, the ONLY important thing in a survival scenario, is physical strength. I may not have the physical strength of a man of comparable…

? I am not clear what you are saying here. I can guarantee you that I am physically stronger than many men. I am taller than the average American male (which you yourself say is highly correlated to strength), and I am very physically fit. If you are saying that if you graphed the strength of men and compared it to…

My gripe with Lori is her general uselessness. She could have been blowing Shane when Rick walked into camp and I would have thought Rick should just build a bridge and get the fuck over it. Lori couldn't shoot and was scared of guns so a bad choice for the front lines. She also couldn't watch her kid (a…

mmm Like God, I see both sides of the issue. I was all set to join or start a "Women ARE, as a general rule, physically weaker than men. Not 100% of women are weaker than 100% of men, but the average woman does have far less upper body strength than the average man." chorus. Then the quote followed up with "fewer…

LOL first time I heard it used with the UK meaning I was watching Skins. I didn't know it had a different meaning "across the pond" and since, if someone isn't wearing anything on the bottom, you are likely to see both front and back the alternative meaning didn't really register. I couldn't understand why these kids…

I feel that way about "fanny." I know that there it means about the same thing as "pussy" or "vag" but it is such a cute, grandma word for "rear end" or "bottom" here that every time I hear someone on an English TV show talk about "fanny" I giggle.

sexual abuse is often also accompanied by the child soiling him or herself.