I could imagine a scenario in which a woman doesn't really care about herself much, but once she's pregnant and responsible for someone else's life, might change her ways and try to be healthier. I know men who've done that when they became fathers.

Thought: Were boys not "trained" to do household tasks over generations in order to perpetuate a system wherein women/girls had control over the domestic sphere and therefore were "needed" by men more?

I thought this was going to be a different type of article. I too sacrificed a childhood for food, but it was because I missed out on everything due to gorging myself and being a fat kid, so that's how I read the headline.

Jesus H. Christ.

Definitely don't fuck a chicken. That is not the answer.

I don't know if I've ever seen a person eating something "at" another person.

I think what bothers me is the generalization that all neurotypical women are empathetic, disorganized, whatever.

Yeah, I get that there are real neurological differences between the biological sexes. I just kind of felt weird about being told I have a guy brain, essentially. Like would that mean I should also have gender dysphoria? It's confusing (to me).

Yeah, I'm like 5% offended, if that makes sense? Kind of at a "getting bumped into on the bus" level of miffed (not very). I think the "cool girl" shaming is like the "manic pixie dream girl" shaming. Yeah, there are people who adopt that personality, but there are also people who are really like that, and it's…

It isn't really my theory. It's Simon Baron-Cohen's. He's an autism researcher. It seems a little sexist to me, but whatever.

I'm a frilly kind of gal with conventional female looks, and I often get told that I'm a guy in a woman's body, which is intended as a compliment. I think it's because I have Asperger's, which has been defined as "extreme male brain" by some, therefore seeming even stranger in a woman. I don't know if I'm a "cool…

Well, you wanted to know how/when/where women get shamed for their private parts, and I gave examples of that. Words like "vag" or "douchebag" probably get used differently in various geographic areas, but where I live, it's very common for guys to talk like that (not saying that it's right, just saying that it…

Paying for my own food was one of the ways I kicked bulimia, actually. The binging and purging was no longer financially viable.

Guys' intense fear of even brand-new wrapped tampons, labioplasty, vaginal rejuvenation, terms like "meat curtains," guys calling each other a "vag" (pronounced vadge) as a pejorative, likewise "douche." Just some stuff off the top of my head. Your sisters may just not have internalized these things.

This is apparently what most people think a feminist is like, which is why so many women are keen to distance themselves from the word.

I'm imagining a faux-cake, like what strippers jump out of.

Because a dove cake is just ridiculous.

Reminds me of Annie Lennox.

I have noticed that "kids today" (i.e. under maybe 27 or so) use "stalk" very loosely.

The parent may think she's portraying an attentive and caring attitude, but kids can usually pick up on whether it's real. It's pretty tricky to keep up that kind of facade 24/7 for decades.