Usually the fathers don’t fight for it is why, not some sort of bias against men. At least that’s what I’ve gathered from people in the system.

Can we please stop describing people with bipolar disorder as “complicated” and loving them “painful”. JFC, Page Six. I’m so over it. I’m a healthy, productive human who has a great job, a happy family, and a PhD. I did all of this WITH Bipolar II. I watched other members of my family and refuse treatment and have the…

One of my good friends took her parents to get their first jabs. Their appointments were at the end of the day, so when she was there she put her name on a wait list and hung around. When they were done with appointments they had some doses left over, so she got one, and is scheduled for her second one next week.

Really, though, as long as efforts have been made to offer them to the elderly or essential workers first, why shouldn’t people do that? The leftover vaccines will just go to waste. 

That movie is drenched in copaganda, and most of it revolves around how Bruce Willis (Any Ordinary Cop, Alone Against The Forces Of Evil) is the only person who doesn’t have his head up his ass. Those white collar types have no idea what’s going on outside the world of finance; the FBI is fooled by absurd demands;…

Pssst!  The WSJ is owned by Newscorp, same as Fox “News” and the New York Post.  Hence, it is ultimately owned by Rupert Murdoch.  In publishing as in business, the culture of the office filters down; not up.

Hillary Clinton, a smart woman who’s too busy/important/career-oriented to be First Lady

Your comment made me realize that they’d love to turn her into another Hillary Clinton, a smart woman who’s too busy/important/career-oriented to be First Lady and thinks she’s better than other women because she’s educated and has a job. They pinned that scarlet “harpy” to her in the early 90s, and this is just a…

Update: Dad came through.

I co-opting this thread because I’m too sad from 2 deaths in the family this month to talk about stress. How about something happy for those looking for a distraction? Reply to this with your FAVORITE or most fun/funny/cute/sweet Halloween stories.

A friend of mine got SHITFACED at a Halloween party. The stressful part was me and her boyfriend wrestling with her in the parking lot to keep her from driving home. So, a vampire and a hooker were throwing down with an very drunk, violent angel. It ended with her breaking her car key off in the ignition, pissing…

I decided to dress as a nun and go around my downtown celebration on roller blades. (I told everybody I was a Holy Roller - get it? - but I was inspired by The Penguin from The Blues Brothers.)

I grew up in the 70s/80s. A man tried to talk me into his car when I was 12. I was out walking my dog and told him my dog would bite, but what scared him off was another car pulling up. I have a few stories like that A man in a car chased my little brother on his bike. GenX was undersupervised/underparented/ often…

Also - if your toilet tank is leaking into the bowl, it’ll make flush sounds at random times when the water has finally all leaked out. Replace the flapper or maybe the entire valve. It’s not ghosts; just a bad seal.

SNARK TIME

Not vying for the contest, but the Ouija story brought back my own Oujia memories...

Lot to unpack here, but w/r/t this bit:

The first time I read this story it freaked me the fuck out. Every Halloween since I’ve gone back and read it after someone would post it in the comments. I know many people have said it’s fake, and a retelling of an old creepypasta, but it still gives me the heebie jeebies. Although, I don’t really buy a teenager…

She was lacking both a head and a name, reduced to salacious parts without identity. That doesn’t sound like “dignity” to me.

Anyone else sense that this weirdly compartmentalized view of sexism is alarmingly common? I have male friends who are pro-choice, pro-equal pay, and would never, under any circumstances, tell any woman they were related to or in a relationship with to "get in the kitchen." And yet, when it's a woman they don't like…