I agree with you 100%. If the state is concerned about drug use in pregnant women they should mandate that OBs educate patients about the dangers of drug use during pregnancy and give them all a pamphlet with resources for help getting sober. Making drug using pregnant women too scared to go to the doctor is not…

Why am I not surprised that the grey system isn't fixing this? The trolls are still trolling. The only difference is, lots of us non trolls are stuck in the greys now. Sigh.

Why does the fact that she's a woman make it OK? Women are perfectly capable of internalizing misogyny. I hate it when women call other women "skanks" or "sluts." In some ways it's almost worse than when men do it.

This is like if Margaret Atwood wrote Degrassi.

Don't forget the guys who wear backpacks and are blissfully unaware of the fact that their huge ass bag is swinging in other people's faces.

I put my purse next to me specifically to avoid spread eagle male bus riders. I'm somewhat claustrophobic and I'm really uncomfortable being touched by strangers. I move the purse into my lap if the bus starts getting full but I try to do it strategically. I wait for a time when mostly women are boarding.

I just wish they would follow every good regular commenter so everyone could ignore greys.

The point people are making is that everyone is uncomfortable on a crowded bus/subway/train. Your discomfort isn't special. You don't get the right to take up extra space that other people don't get. Your balls aren't so important that they give you free pass to disregard basic etiquette. I'm not sure what the…

I always wonder how so many adults can't grasp child level etiquette. I'm pretty sure kindergarten class is about when I started learning about respecting personal space. Maybe it's bad parenting. My mom was pretty strict about me behaving politely in public, at family gatherings etc.

Fat is a body type, not a rude behavior. Skinny or medium size men can control whether or not they spread their legs into someone else's space.

What right do you have to encroach into other's personal space and make them uncomfortable so you can be more comfortable? I have big boobs and they get all smushed and sweaty in the summer. Yet I still manage to not prop my boob up on the shoulder of the person sitting next to be. Guess what? You don't always get…

It's also profoundly uncomfortable both physically and mentally to have some dude's leg smushing you. I don't give a fuck if you're uncomfortable. Stay in your portion of the seat. Don't encroach into other's personal space.

The first two letter writers seriously need to cut those friends out of their lives. People who are racist and people who are rude to service employees are the worst kind of people. They don't deserve friends. Life is too short to waste time being friends with awful people who sooner or later will direct their…

The designers don't need to change anything I don't think. Target just needs to order a wider variety of sizes from the manufacturer. They just need to make the same thing in bigger sizes. No one is saying the designers have to also create a separate plus size collection.

I can't wear anything anywhere because there is no clothing made for big boobs ever.

Top notch post Lindy. I had the same exact reaction. Nothing more even needs to be said.

Yay!!! Thanks!

I don't know. They tend to universalize their own boner preferences and probably can't imagine that there are men who like short haired women.

Misogynists always think it's brutally oppressive any time their boner is sad. Short hair as misandry is actually a terrifyingly common sentiment in the manosphere.

Literally the only time I've read Thought Catalog is when Gawker or Jezebel is making fun of a particularly stupid article. If it wasn't for GM I wouldn't even know the site exists I don't think.