Whoa. No response for a year long relationship? That is freaking cold.

Ditto. I went from being disgusted by Adam the character to thinking, "Holy shit, he's the only real one. Why is he surrounded by these people?!"
And these pictures. Ugh.. I might need a minute.

I wish I could translate to you the voice I read this in.
Burt, you're the best.

It took me a long time to like tomatoes. I think it's a maturing taste thing. But now that I have a taste for them, I can eat them with anything, including just on their own.

I've been growing pear tomatoes in my garden and eating them as they come in right off the plant. They are fucking delicious! And they never, ever, EVER deserve to be ranked below cranberries.
Fuck cranberries.

Definitely. A lot of the hush about it has to do with framing, I think. When I was younger I assumed these were the risks you took to go out drinking with friends (it pains me to type that now.) I didn't even think of them as undeserved, let alone assault.
I am so happy there are now places online that young women can…

I wish that was the worst I've gotten too. A few years ago I went out for my cousins birthday and in the same night had a random man kiss me then yell, "it's my birthday" in my face. Then have another guy grab my vagina. MY VAGINA. Through my jeans. He got an earful. Then my boyfriend got a drunken earful when I got…

Totally! I got really good at shoving them away or letting them know they better stop with some screaming in their ear. But the fact that it even had to be said is ridiculous. And to so many men! It isn't an isolated thing, it's like an across the board expected behavior.

I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Totally! I just immediately get put on the defensive if someone mentions my appearance off the bat.
Except shoes. I dunno. A shoe compliment is nice, because it seems like such a sexless accessory, so it isn't a loaded comment.

I have never gone home with someone who mentioned my appearance before my interest was firmly established. Not once.

Successful tactics: Introducing themselves, asking me , "Hi, how are you tonight?", "Do you want to dance?", "Can I get you a drink?".

Unsuccessful: groping, dancing against me without my permission…

Yep. Which is again why it is important to have parental leave and a society that supports devoted parents. Making people, mostly women, choose between a career and child rearing isn't going to lead to better adjusted children.

Cool. Guess what I got to do last Friday? Fill out a police report when a man followed me from a bus stop without my knowledge, into my place of work with the intention of assaulting me. He then hung around the premises and tried to steal my phone, take my business card and did all he could to learn my identity. He…

If you make impoverished parents, you make impoverished children.
And it isn't a bad argument, because if everyone thought like you, it would be an enormous issue. But luckily lots of us live in places with awesome parental leave and it actually creates a very responsible environment for setting up families because…

This is just silly.
I get it, not everyone wants kids. Good. People should have the choice to do what they want. But we as a species, let alone as distinct societies require reproduction to continue existing. Therefore, we need people to reproduce. It isn't rocket science.
If you want people to continue the species…

Even though you never should have had to, thank you for writing this.
I have only run across the psychopath a couple times, and that was enough to turn my stomach and put me off the internet for the day. As a survivor of sexual violence Jezebel has been a relative safe space for me, as far as safety can go for women…

It was in 2008. Like I said, not a big deal. I wasn't trying to paint it as a city wide thing, just pointing out that I had never run into it before that.

She was nice enough *shrug*. I just assumed it was a policy they had and rolled with it.

It's the worst! It made me realize how little I get change, or even pay in cash.
Also, I went from in suite for three apartments, to coin op in a basement. I'm too old for this! Haha. But my apartment is adorable, and character filled, and worth the death-trap stairs to get to the stupid coin op laundry.
(Luckily my…

I still have coin op laundry, so the idea of giving away my loonies makes me feel like Scrooge McDuck, haha. I hoarde those suckers!
I just meant it's less likely to be jingling in your pocket because of the weight.