Yup. Sounds like we won't ever agree.

I disagree. The statement was "internet trolling is a force with a political agenda." The TROLLS' objective is irrelevant. It's the trolling itself that is the force she's talking about. That "force" is, for the purposes of my increasingly strained metaphor, the set of simple rules by which the mob operates.

Their objective is irrelevant. The *effect* is political. Of course not all trolls are the same, but the mass wave of misogynistic trolls [the subject of this article] who rear up any time a woman says anything on the internet have a silencing effect. The end result of the simple rules that program the flock of…

I have a friend who is a pro-level costumer. I've talked her into making me a custom bra. (Or at least helping me make one myself.) She took a couple of days of research to figure out exactly how, but that's our big plan for the winter. Do you have any suggested resources? We're both well endowed — I'm an H, she's a…

How is it *not* political to want to suppress the voice and power of half the population? Because that's what this flocking behavior is — the whole school turns and attacks any woman who displays power.

Asleep by 10, up by 6. A solid 8 pretty much every night.

Have you seen any of the studies of flocking behavior? A school of fish doesn't have a single mind controlling them, but together, acting by a set of rules that is understood, they can act as a single entity. Trolls do that, too. Just because there isn't some Great Grand Misogynistic Asshat in a black hat sucking on…

My daughter gets an allowance. She also has chores. They are unrelated.

My solution to sweat stains (in this case the armpit stains in all my white summer linen) is somewhat different. I use the pre-dyeing technique called scouring.

If they are going for MAXIMUM accuracy, they should only accept a range of members who conform to the size/weight of the time — most men would be much shorter and thinner than modern specimens. And they should only eat food with worms and bugs and rot. And they should have their teeth pulled out with pliers instead of…

When I had a c-section, I would have loved this! Not because I care about the scar, but because getting the frigging staples out was incredibly painful — astronomically painful. I did friggin 22 hours of pitocin with no painkillers and the thing I remember hurting the most was the goddamned staples.

/headdesk

Me! Me! MEMEMEMEMEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! I would kill someone I did not like if Joss Whedon or better yet, Gail Simone, wrote and then someone made a Black Widow movie. I would even buy the frigging DVD and I don't own any DVDs.

You just saved me from a massive fashion crisis that was looming large. (Stupid four-day-long wedding events!) OMG you're my favorite person this morning! (Gets out credit card...)

Except, here's the thing. According to the book Gender Violence (O'Toole, Laura L.; Schiffman, Jessica R., eds. (1997). p. 235), 90 percent of all pregnancies in girls under the age of 15 are caused by incest rape. That means they are being/have been abused by a family member. They are mistrustful of authorities for…

Tea tree oil is a mom's best friend. It's anti-everything and my go-to essential oil for cleaning the bathroom. I, too, use the baking soda/vinegar/natural stuff combos for my bathroom. It's got a strong scent, but it's awesome.

My shitty break up was the time my high school on-again-off-again bf dumped me on Valentine's Day.... for the second year in a row. In the middle of the hallway, on our way to class.

True story: My daughter's bff, when they were four, overheard me say that clothes are hard to draw and after that she liked to draw people naked. She also insisted on referring to her vulva as a "volvo." So one day she drew a picture of my daughter and pointed and said "that's her hair and that's her face and that's…

As a SAHM who cans, bakes bread, makes my own soap, the whole nine yards, can I just say that this attitude — that it's women's fault we're all fat — pisses me the fuck off? The crux of it can be seen in this sentence: "American women now allow corporations to cook for them."

I love Hilary. I do. But .... Int he past 15 years, we've had two Bushes and I'd like to not have two Clintons. Let's get away from that whole tangled mess and start fresh with someone who isn't so damned freighted with all the hate and infighting from the past fifteen years. I don't know much about Gillbrand, but I'm…