There’s also just getting to know the different sides of a person as you go through those events. Obviously we all change over time, in unpredictable ways. But there are certain things that come and go. Like I’ll go through months or years where I’m crazy athletic and outdoorsy, and months or years where I’m a…

That is weird. I assume husband-to-be would have a couch she could sleep on. And blaming the parents is reaaaally strange.

Can testify that he took a hard turn, fast, when he got promoted to this gig. Just a few years ago I needed to book speakers for a high profile event that wanted to do the whole left/right politics discussion thing. So I was trying to find people who were definitively one side or the other but kind of on the centrist…

It blew my mind when I lived in the deep south that the norm amongst my coworkers was moving in together the weekend of the wedding. And that there were TWO women in their thirties on my team wearing purity rings. Whatttttt

Someone who grew up in a rural religious area once explained it to me as people trying to up their own chances of making it into heaven by spreading God’s word... same reason some people are so zealous about converting people. I’m sure part of it’s well meaning but there’s some self-preservation to it as well.

Oh I am so confused by fancy fashion. With a gun to my head I could not tell you what’s good or not good, and I have my own fun with clothes. 

Well I wouldn’t want this car, but apparently Kris Jenner did. So assuming this was a surprise gift (e.g. staged reveal but a real, actual gift) that’s kinda what I’d want too -- something that shows the gift giver cares enough about me to remember what I like and don’t like. I mean that’s what I want now too, but…

Yeah I am single and in my mid-thirties. I’m sex positive but I swing back and forth between being single and slutty, being basically celibate, and being in multi-year monogamous relationships. I stopped counting at 30. John Mayer, j’accuse.

I’ve lived in 3 of the cities in the US that go the most all-in on Halloween and so I have dubbed myself a connoisseur, and I don’t give anything a second look unless it’s either home made or self-assembled. 

They did. Gorsuch was raised in Colorado, but he attended Georgetown Prep in Maryland for high school.

FROG AND TOAD!!! I have spent a not-insignificant amount of time over the years trying to explain the existentialist wonder of Frog and Toad to friends, to very little success.

Yeah, I was already leaning towards “this is fiction” but that detail made it pretty clear that there’s no way this is a true story. I mean, I’m the type to have a living will at a young age (just in case!) but it’s all medical stuff, not funeral arrangements, because I’m planning to be pretty alive for a significant…

It may not be the only purpose, but it’s a form of communication, so that in and of itself brings people together. Not always in a “let’s all hold hands” kind of way, but in the form of igniting discourse around a shared concept (like this discourse!).

High five from the on-and-off bonehead survivor’s club!

Also if you want so badly to ask those idiot questions, could you not at least ask them of someone of color as opposed to a panel of other white people? I wouldn’t watch an all-male panel wonder why women are SO emotional, why should I be expected to watch this pointless nonsense conversation?

I’m happily in the valley of “I don’t want kids but meh, maybe the right person could convince me?”. I think you’re spot on that for many of us it’s not a goal but could be on the table depending on the situation.

I feel far sexier when I’m wearing flats because I can actually do impromptu adventures like go for an unplanned walk or go dancing or even like not ruin the night by making everyone miss the bus. But props to the ladies who love their heels and can do all of those things in them. I’ve seen folks straight up sprint in…

That comes up enough that she has to have a retort?!? My ex was about a foot taller than me and I NEVER in many years met anyone who was gross enough to actually ask about how our sex worked! (Now I’m wondering how many people were thinking about it, ugh)

I am a medium-sized daughter of a tall mother (also 5'11") and my ex is about 6'6". So many parties there’d be a tall woman scanning the room, see my dude, get excited, shift her eyes downward and see me standing next to him, and then be visibly annoyed. I didn’t shrug it off because I grew up hearing about tall girl…

I had an incredibly elaborate sleeping arrangement to protect against 3 very specific monsters. I didn’t grow out of this until I was maybe 11.