I love Dixit and may buy that white dish for myself. My mom, she gets nothing.

I'm so baffled by the lady with the 10 year old knickers. Not grossed out — you keep 'em if you want to, sweetie — but baffled. I buy 10-packs of Hanes cotton bikinis at least twice a year because they wear through so fast. I get maybe six months before the cotton starts to shred. Of course, that's about the same…

Wait! Is Rory OLD ENOUGH to be a mom, now? The show ended in 2007, she was just graduated from college and like 22. That means she's.... totally old enough to be a mom now, isn't she? Of cute toddlers, even. Oh, Gods, I'm OLD.

Dear boy, I must ask. Why do you think that the gaming industry, made up largely of males, and historically showing complete contempt for women, would listen to us if we complained about male body portrayal? We can't even get them to *include* women, for the most part. (Well, living ones, anyway.) Our complaints have…

I'm confused. I have dinner (and lunch and sometimes brunch) alone with my friends' husbands all the time. Just like I have dinner (and lunch and sometimes brunch) alone with my friends' wives all the time. Why would this be bad?

Ooh, or maybe we can get a photog to stalk him and talk about every time he wears the same outfit?

<<Fans self....>> I"ll be in my bunk.

Anita Sarkeesian offered an amendment to take care of situations like these. The same rule applies but the conversation must last more than 60 seconds.

Forty years? Bah. Women still had the vote 40 years ago. He wants to use voter ID laws to roll it back to 1918.

That's exactly what I was going to post. Only red.

I knew they weren't nuts but I hadn't realized they had gluten. In that case, stick to the seeds.

My family is allergic to nuts (except me, and they are my favorite food. /sigh). I've created a nut-free granola recipe that sort of mixes the oatmeal and seeds together. Basically take Alton Brown's granola mix and substitute hemp, flax, and/or sesame seeds (And pepitas if you're RICH) for the nuts. If, like my…

To me at least, there is a big difference between the carcass of a slow roasted chicken and some bones that I've carefully browned. The former provides little oomph because all the yummy has already gone into the meat. The later can be good, if you want to have those deep flavor notes. I prefer a neutral golden stock…

Don't forget to calculate the long term amortized health care costs. A homemade lunch is going to save you on doctor care in the long run. But yes, good food costs money and takes time. The only way you could call it "free" is if it's leftovers that might get thrown out otherwise.

Parsley stems! Parsley stems are the best for this!

Re: stock. That will make you a decent secondary chicken stock, but using already-cooked bones won't get my much actual flavor or unctuous mouthfeel. For a primary stock, you need rawness. I like necks, feet, or wings. I will sometimes use my secondary stock as the water for the primary stock. It's very simple. Throw…

I used to volunteer at YNHCH in the kid ward. I am flashing back to those days. Usually they were so awesome — you'd go in, hang out with some cool kids, draw pictures, whatever. But then you'd come in and the kid you played with last week, who was so sick, she's not there any more and you're all "Oh, hay! Did Brianna…

Husky alumna (alumnae?) here. Sad to say, I'm not shocked. When I went to UConn, lo those many years ago, there was a fact that was passed from person to person. I don't know if it was true, but it *felt* true.

I don't know if you're a parent, but the child-media world is dominated by Disney. It looms in every child's life like the spaceships in ID4. And children are very very influenced by the media they consume. So most Disney movies have a wide variety of male characters and types and The Princess. Sometimes there's a…

I'm fascinated by the fact that the pinterest board is entirely blonde women.