ok how does john mayer get to be such a dick & still get to bone the most beautiful women?

Their (icky) father was my youth pastor growing up. After they left for Hollywood, he once came back to a youth trip to tell us not to judge Jessica for showing her boobs n shit. Real creeper, that guy. Even as a kid I never felt right about him.

w.o.w.

::dry heaves because of her hysterical crying::

literally don't know anything about the Simpson sisters other than the fact that they get pregnant

Well, I'll be honest, we have dealt with people's shit over it.

Basically, when we lived overseas, it was considered perfectly normal for boys and girls to flip gender roles in their games and everyone was like 'it doesn't mean anything long term, they are exploring!' When we returned to the US, so many parents had a…

I actually think the Drunk J. Crew ads at Tumblr make more sense. And I canntevin

Your judgment of parents is very negative. My girls love Disney, but they don't watch it daily, or even weekly. We sit down and read stories every night, though, and we hate reading popular character stories. We read classic fairytales and books as well as newer books with strong characters and/or humorous scenes.…

I have not missed the whole point of the argument, thank very much. I don't agree with it. I don't need to you to tell me about gender roles since I am (a) a woman; and (b) a mother of a daughter.

Exactly. I absolutely loved science when I was growing up and fairy tales. As I got older I gravitated towards literature and the arts because that's what I genuinely enjoyed and because i didn't have the aptitude to pursue STEM at anything beyond a university level, and I have a penis and testicles.

HA! You zoned out during the sex talk! That's one way to teach your kids about sex — make it boring to them and they won't ask any more questions. :)

Yes, and they'll do that anyway, no matter whether the fairy tales themselves exist or not. Still not really sure what your point is about the fairy tales; as far as I can see, fairy tales themselves are still awesome and if people discover them in their original form, all the better. If your argument is against…

All kids, but especially girls, should be taught that math and science are for everybody not just some select geniuses. Girls shouldn't be taught that if they don't pick something up immediately it means they are just naturally bad at it and encouraged to give it up entirely.

My son is as interested in fairy tales and myths as he is in science and engineering.

He's currently interested in acting (and writing his own plays/movies), as well as languages (french and japanese — he chose those himself), and he also plays a lot of lego where he's engineering the lego to do different things (he's…

I'm autistic and female. My dad taught me to add and multiply when I was 4 (using a calendar). He bought me science books for Christmas (carefully reading them himself first, of course - a venerable family tradition). Mom insisted on getting a chemistry kit for Christmas one year, because she didn't get one as a kid.…

Simply exposing kids to everything gets you amazing results. My three-year old was with me yesterday at Joann looking at fabric and he desperately wanted shimmery blue fabric to take home. I asked him why he wanted it and he said, "It can be an Elsa dress, a pond for my bugs, and a glacier." I didn't even know he…

Because cultural literacy is for pussies. But whatever. It's not like scientists need to be able to write or anything.

Wanted to get in early with this one:

Going forward, I'd like to see Gap operationalize these learnings into a true seachange for their model. N' stuff.

Former Gap lover, basically only owned clothes from Gap and The Limited from 1997 to 2003. While the advertising is kind of mind-boggling, especially considering how great it was in the 90's, Gap lost me at the store level. The last few times I've ventured into a Gap it was a disaster area- messy, crowded and…