This is what happens when you teach women that there is only one way to be a good mother. This is what happens when you teach women that perfection is the primary goal, that mistakes are the enemy, that outward perception is sacrosanct. This is what happens when you value a woman’s relationships over her mental health…

Indeed, believe I burnt mine along with my tie at the bottom of the garden when I finished GCSE’s.

As an UK ex-pupil, to be clear, we’re talking about these books... Not actual books (unless they’re total psychopaths).

Don’t know if this is UK-specific, but it’s our exercise books we burn/shred/tear up. You don’t have to buy textbooks, they belong to (and stay at) the school. When I was at secondary school, you didn’t really take notes, you just answered textbook/worksheet questions, so the contents of your exercise book are pretty…

Who wants outdated planners and used notebooks?

Oh, stop clenching your pearls, guys. They weren’t burning copies of literature or even trashy airplane novels, they were burning last year’s homework calendar and their Spanish practice worksheets. I’ve used many a graded paper as kindling. It’s really nothing at all like what Hitler or Savonarola were doing.

BO BURNAM

Sure they can be comfortable with nudity or whatever but how about teaching them so friggin boundaries, too? Barging in on someone in the bathroom? What if they were pooping? THAT’S MY TIME, YOU LITTLE JERKS.

That’s so weird considering we all thought that was her bro’s dick.

ACCIO BONERZZZZZ: Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis) just popped his top off for you

That wasn’t childish, CM.

Her face says “I’m 110 years old. You’ve been president for 7 years. The fuq did you make me wait?”

I honestly don’t see marriages making it like our grandparents or parents’ marriages. It’s just not a possibility anymore. Values were different then, women were more dependent, men had the final word. Divorce is common because nothing is supposed to last forever and people have become stronger to walk away from bad…

Speaking of LGBTQ tolerance:

Just can't do it, I can't in good conscience watch two people beat the shit out of each other and enjoy it. They're consenting adults doing it, and if everyone else wants to watch it, cool beans, but I just can't. Fake violence is great. Real? Not so much.

That’s entirely correct. It’s about as boring and potentially harmful as, say, alcohol. Which makes it kinda dumb that it’s still (federally) illegal.

I think it just goes to prove that “haters gonna hate” regardless of the situation. You didn’t have to clarify anything. Thank you for sharing your story.

I feel like my story needs a bit of clarification. I was not “spoiled”, as you put it. I am autistic and severely physically disabled, so “normal” ways of earning money were and are not accessible to me. My parents buying all that they did for me had nothing to do with being spoiled. I was the weird kid who hardly…

It says nothing about buying good cards, she just says they got her multiple booster packs and a binder to put them in.

Recently my mom, over the span of two dinners told me some facts I had absolutely no idea about and never could have guessed. First, that her mother (in Texas in the 50s) had been forced by her parents to have a “back alley” pregnancy termination that nearly killed her and she regretted forever. Second, that she had…