While lowering expectations with really shitty, canned and scripted shallow curricula and gimmicky, embarrassingly childish (for high school students) “engagement strategies” where we expect them to perform neat little showy tricks on command like puppets. Barf.

I just got back from a family reunion where my only sister and I shared a room. I'm 49 and she's nearly 48 and we still stay up until the wee hours dissecting my dad's misogyny, and the ways all the women he flirted and carried on with during our lives were everything we weren't, and how shitty and awful and ugly we…

As the mom of a (now almost 25-year-old) Paulina, I approve of his excellent baby-naming skills.

It's Oklahoma. Causing atheists discomfort will just make these tools happy they got to maximize the effectiveness of this bill (I know this because I'm an atheist who stupidly moved to Texas a year ago).

How could she think it was ok to expect him to never want to have sex ever, for the most part, either? I never understand this.

My husband and I remarried a year ago after 11 years apart (our first 18 year marriage was normal sexually). He was recovering from a life-threatening illness at the beginning of this marriage, but not something that should have had effects on sexual performance (or anything his doctors have determined to have done…

I haven't been in Texas all that long, but my impression is that there is very little protection for the worker in this type of scenario compared to other states (which may be one of the reasons she's suing).

A Texan commentator's gut response is almost always on the side of the employer in any of these stories. Employees are to be grateful...for their job, for being alive (in her case), for whatever their employer sees fit to bestow upon them. If they don't like it, they should quit, problem solved. Also, generally, if…

I was hoping someone else said that. Also, if she were a blonde caucasian Texan, married, had a couple of slightly fat kids with buzz cuts and they all were photographed in a church for this story, I bet a lot of the comments would have a different tone.

Seriously. It is uncanny how perfect this list is. I'm not sure I've actually ever seen truer words in print. (Also I just ate my last Samoa, but only because I'm saving the Thin Mints for last. Discipline.)

This is not true. They just tell you to smile first, then proceed to harass you. Or, some of them take your bitch face as a "challenge" (have seriously had creepy people tell me that).

Apparently she was also a sub. A surprising number of these "abuse by a teacher" stories turn out to involve subs, and it's almost never clarified in the headline. I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get into teaching, and subs in some states only have to have a high school diploma, so it's annoying.

Those Cosabella bras always make me so sad to have D-cups. Nothing that pretty ever seems to be sized higher than a C.

I despise these kinds of shaming punishments, and I've managed to bring up a 23 and 25 year old without them. Yeah, they had a couple of dramatic moments in the teen years, and they're not perfect, but I like to think they turned out pretty well, despite my never turning them into a public laughingstock to prove to…

I'm so old that the last time I bought baggy pants, they kind of looked like this:

For chrissake please let him lose that incredibly affected British accent I heard him use on Ellen before he says his marriage vows.

Thank you. Don't act like you do your share of the work taking out the trash when after you do, I inevitably end up over the bin with a handful of dripping potato peel or something and NO BAG. Gee, gracias.

My ex had all my passwords, and checked everything of mine regularly for years. I had none of his. The one time I snooped his unlocked email (and caught him in a lie, of course) he went ballistic. I can't believe I put up with his shit for all those years. I'll open up my email etc any time for anyone who feels…

To be honest, at my age and after some deliberation I no longer consider casual sex, or sex with someone who doesn't know me really well, to be worth it; not because I have moral objections (I don't), but because in my own personal experience, the sex just isn't all that good. I'd participate in maintenance sex…

Not for everyone in their 40's. My libido was much higher in my 40's than it was for most of my 30's.