*fistbump* We are one and the same.

I hear ya. Lately I've been consumed with a project I'm working on to the point where I'll forget to even shower until it gets dire enough that I notice. I forget to eat until I'm shaking with hunger, I forget to leave the house. I'm really kind of an extremist in that sense: I'm either totally focused on productivity…

900 calories a day is WAY too low, though! To lose weight, you need to be in the 1200-1500 range or your body will go into starvation mode and retain every calorie. Maybe you're not getting enough protein?

But don't you know how much training it takes to be a pilot?!!

Just to let you know, I'd be on your side and would do everything I could to help. (I also find it a million times easier to stick up for someone else than I do for myself, so I can guarantee this.)

It's a shame that so many of the words to describe steel nerve are related to masculinity - cojones, stones, balls - because what you did was way beyond being compared to the very people who were causing you a problem in the first place. That was a POWERFUL move.

Sadly, yes. You should hear how lackadaisical my sister is about this stuff - if I mentioned anything like this, she'd shrug and say "Oh, that happened to me on a bus once!" with an eye-roll. Almost a "creeps will be creeps!" kind of attitude, without the appropriate degree of disapproval.

It sucks how much of our emotional wellbeing is tied up in our appearance. I wonder how we'd feel if there was no such thing as mirrors and cameras? I try really hard to frame my comments about myself as "I want to feel better. I want to feel healthier and more energetic." but there's no denying that I just feel…

Oh my God, we would get along so well. :) I feel things so intensely too - it's one of the driving forces behind my problems with depression because it's like sensory overload in terms of compassion and empathy, combined with dark memories. I feel everything so deeply. And yet, it's all emotions on a Grand Scale which…

Totally... I don't think it will fully happen in our lifetime, but hopefully we'll make strides in that direction. For all its flaws, the internet does make it easier to connect with other women and push for laws that support equality for all.

Ugh, sorry you went through that too. It's unbelievably gross when girls are so obviously young - like when people would catcall me when I was in my school uniform - because those men can't pretend they're not predators. How do they live with themselves?!

If orgasming-in-front-of-a-smiling-angel is religion, sign me up!

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Absolutely. They depend on the shock factor to stun us into silence, while all of society stands by with its attitude that forbids women from speaking up for themselves.

I think anything with "Reek" in it should be avoided for human names! Maybe for a dog... ;)

I can only speak for myself, but I think it's a perfectly lovely thing to say and a comforting thing to hear. I say it to people all the time, too.

:(

Yeah, I can see how that would be one big blurry mess of a "where are the boundaries?" situation. Personally, I seem to confess all my most private thoughts in saunas, for some reason - that must be my version of the jumpseat confessional!

A man jerked off behind me in the cinema when I was 21. To make it all the more creepy, it was a matinee screening of a religious-themed movie, and he kept holding pieces of my hair, even though I continually tugged them away. At first, I thought my hair was just catching on something, but I quickly realised that he…

Are you a flight attendant? (I'm kind of assuming so, from your story and your nickname) Could you have filed a report? I understand why you might not have wanted to, but it's not as if a move like that could be considered a "grey area" - it's a very definite violation of your space, by someone who clearly has no idea…