My daughter is twelve too. I have a slightly different way of looking at her food choices, though. When she was little, I offered her tons of healthy choices and she went on to become a person who will eat almost anything (except mango and eggplant). I see it as my responsibility to keep good, healthy food in the…

Real talk: Maybe I’m a monster, but I don’t feel awful about rolling my eyes, this is just special snowflake syndrome rearing its head again. It’s impossible and unsustainable to cater to all diseases and disabilities and super specific differences in the appearance of humans. Children’s parents should explain that to…

“I'm writing to you today because my child has several moles and freckles, and none of the available dolls have moles or freckles. I've attached a drawing of MaKkeNsiYe's exact pattern of moles and freckles for your use in creating a doll that ‘looks just like her’. Please note that the pattern must match exactly or…

But you used to get a number of bonus dolls with your Soviet Girl dolls; that must have been cool.

UGH. All these women have dieted and waxed and manicured and hair extensioned and hundreds or thousands of dollars of grooming and he can’t even bother to put on some real fucking shoes?!

Fuck that. One can be a cunning linquist as well as a cunting linquist.

...it seems like you are implying your mom killed three baby rabbits, which...why would someone do that and then blithely tell their child that?

I don’t get it. They died? She killed them? Fed them to a neighbor’s snake? What?

I just HATE that the fearmongering is cutting off one of the best positive parts that can come out an abortion or miscarriage - the potential for some remains to go to science, to help other fetuses or humanity in general.

To me, it seems that Renae-Plant types are quite common among self-founded non-profits, schools and small business. You have to be a little crazy to pour all your money and time into a venture in the first place, and once you do, any criticism, anything less than total, unquestioning obedience becomes VERY PERSONAL.

Is it just me, or do you stop taking someone seriously the minute they use the word ‘hubby’ in a professional email?

But how many people were at the park long enough themselves to realize how long the mother and child had been there. So it kind of makes sense. I’m betting the person who called it in actually went to the park on two separate occasions and saw them still on the swing the second time around, looking like they never…

It’s a logic sort of on par with “Because in certain situations Banks will let you have money, robbing a bank is essentially just disagreeing on the repayment terms of a loan”.

There’s so many lies I tell myself so I can continue to exist in this world without breaking down into a puddle of helplessness. One is that most people are, at their core, good. But shit like this, man... I don’t know.

I had an internship at a zoo in undergrad, and there was a note left about me one time. I explained that horseshoe crabs were an ancient species and you could see their relatives, the trilobites, in fossils from the Cambrian period. The dad got all huffy and asked how I knew it was “millions of years”, and I responded…

I disagree. I think this bride _should_ confront her friend about the lack of gift, so that the bridesmaid has the opportunity to shit in a box and mail it to her, but that's just me.

I'm telling myself he meant their marriage was a sham because they are obviously in it for the gifts and not the love.

In his defense (not that he needs, or deserves, me to defend him), I'm pretty sure he called their wedding a "sham" because the brides said they did it "to make money for the future." I'm really hoping he didn't say it because they're both women.