As a teenage boy, I was all over the idea about being a babysitter: I could get paid money to hang out and play with kids? Awesome! I could do that!

Um, at what point was there any hatred directed towards teenage boys in this article? If anything, it's giving them a level of respect that few in our culture are normally willing to grant them: it's saying they'd make perfectly good caretakers if we'd just give them the chance.

Should've gone with the DC/Transformers crossover they were flirting with awhile ago.

I'm totally leaving you for this amazing pillow.

It... it doesn't?

Too laaaaaaate...

Call me a hole?

I teach a cultural history of hate speech class at a state university, and I'm kind of torn about this exercise.

Um, read the article. It doesn't mention her party affiliation anywhere. A bit of research shows that yeah, she's a Democrat. It also shows that she's black and had a young son killed by gang violence. Is not mentioning those things a deliberate oversight by Jezebel as well?

See, for me, the causation worked in reverse: as somebody who suffers from frequent bouts of extreme depression (and coming from a family where almost everybody has this problem), I decided to not have kids. I just don't want to bring another life into this world that would have to deal with the same issues.

It really is weirdly fascinating. I've always chalked up the desire to being an expression of primate grooming habits - we're still basically apes in the end, and we've got millions of years of instincts screeching "oooohhhh LET ME GET THAT FOR YOU!"