Like I said, not a gamer so I’m not deeply invested in my observation. And clearly, if you feel like it’s unsafe, do what you have to. But it seems to me that consistently lowering women’s profile while gaming fosters the myth that women don’t game and gives cover to the GG asshats. Your pocketknife is imperfect in…

I dunno. I’m not a gamer, but that all sounds a lot like, “Don’t walk home alone at night, wear gender neutral clothing, be alert and aware, keep your keys out.” I feel like it would be better to make structural changes to the games (ban hammers!) than to force women to hide while they play.

I saw Kids on a first date, not having the tiniest clue what it was about. I have to presume my date (who picked the movie) didn’t know either. Man, was that an awkward first date.

God, yes. They harass and judge all the damned time. Usually right before they ask if I can sit their kid so that they can take little brother to soccer. I suggest that she reads “One and Only” by Lauren Sandler. It was an amazing book for me because the research she cites is pretty clear that only children are just…

My kid brings her *friends* on vacations. Or cousins, if it’s an extended-family vacation.

Pixar movies which pass the Bechdel test: Inside Out, The Incredibles, Brave, Toy Story 3, and A Bug’s Life.

My wedding was small — 75 people. Of them, 20 were under the age of 7. We had a casual picnic wedding near a pond and included treats to feed the ducks in the picnic baskets. The kids were much better behaved than the adults, in all. (My mother went insane during my engagement. I Thee Dread should do a “crazy mom of…

As a white woman, I’m right the hell there with you.

If yours did, bless them. Mine didn’t sleep through the night til she was two.

I’m 9-years-post-having-a-baby and I will offer you this advice: Get an awesome mom’s group. There is no substitute for a group of parents who are going through the same stuff as you and have the same baby-raising ideas. Every single thing you do will be judged wrong by someone, it’s a message that you cannot escape.…

WALNUT BUTTER! I love walnuts and walnut butter and my husband and child are allergic and it is SAD but I never have to share (just eat from my self-contained dish, alone, on the back porch.)

Fat isn’t unhealthy. The right sort of fat, in the right proportion of calories, is actually, you know, GOOD for you. (Big Macs are not good for you, though.)

You forgot the snails. Conus victoriae (cone snail) will kill your butt dead.

I loved the hell out of it, but I love the hell out of anything Lili Tomlin does, so YMMV. Also, I’m in my 40s.

One of my more memorable John Hughes-esque moments in high school came when some guy tried to grab my purse (not to steal, just for some “funny” reason I can’t recall) and I grabbed it back and it turned sideways and a bunch of stuff spilt out. Pencils clattered, my change purse disgorged everywhere, and the guy I had…

There are two motivations to it. One is the shaming aspect. “Go sit in that corner, young lady, and think about what you did!”

I’m a huge Elizabeth fan. I voted for her. I worked for her campaign. I think she’s the bees knees! But as soon as she said, “No, thanks,” to the idea of running, I think everyone should have dropped it. I can’t help but wonder if the refusal to listen to her “no” had anything to do with her being a woman? I mean,…

Upon further thought, I have now remembered a law that was passed some years ago (2006?) that made it illegal if you are a minor to go across state lines.

Not legal ones, but often logistical ones. If you have kids (and most women who have abortions do) and a job, then you have several hurdles: finding the help you need to watch the kids, having the ability to take multiple days off, and scrounging the funds necessary to travel across state lines, in addition to paying…

My nine year has just gotten into them and I am discovering that the combination of tween girls’ obsessiveness and the internet has created the Ultimate Friendship Bracelet Vortex: http://friendship-bracelets.net/