I get so sick of hearing that. Like, sure, let's all get along and what not, but let's not pretend that cattiness and gossip are problems exclusive to vaginas.

Three things:

A Facebook friend of mine was a fourth-grade teacher prior to having her kids and her status updates are always riddled with spelling/grammar errors. I'm willing to give some leeway for accidents and forgetfulness—sometimes I accidentally say "their" instead of "they're" and feel super lame afterwards—but she says…

It's possible, but I seriously know SO many teachers—across elementary, high school, and even college—who have terrible spelling/grammar. I know a composition instructor (she's getting a Master's in English and is applying to Ph.D. programs now) who routinely spells "flu" as "flue."

I almost want to create an anonymous profile for this, but: in the bed of the Mormon couple I nannied for when they were on vacation. Under their picture of Jesus, no less.

I never knew what that part was so I always just made up my own lyrics. Actually, now that I think about it, I just made up the lyrics to half the song...

Aw. This is such a great post but it also made me so sad, because I had so many drunk-hate-watching-bad-movies nights when I lived in NYC. I lived in a flop house full of people who would be downstairs, playing music or doing screenplay read-throughs, and I was up in my room, drinking a bottle of cheap wine and…

D-d-d-danger right behind you...there's a stranger out to find you—what to do blah blah blah blah so Duck Tales, ooOOOoooh! (Still got it.)

You know what really fries my nads? DO YOU KNOW, BURT?? It's the fact that this kind of thinking isn't even fucking unique. You hear it ALL THE FUCKING TIME if you're a woman who just had a baby. "Don't forget to make time for your husband." "You're probably exhausted and sleep-deprived and feeling completely…

I realized that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I would HAVE to kill my kid, and at least once a week I cry about this.

Right?? My husband and I have an agreement that we're not going to be like the fucking Titanic—if the house is on fire, we save the kids and the dogs. If there's time, I'll go back for my computer, but my husband is on his own.

Indeed, there is a lot of progress being made in teaching severely autistic kids to communicate, which is amazing. The HALO institute in Texas is devoted to teaching autistic kids how to spell and, equally importantly, teaching parents that autism doesn't mean "brain dead." The institute is seeing amazing results (I…

I'm not arguing that a lot of these alternative "therapies" are seriously dangerous and awful (namely the Miracle Mineral Solution. I'm not convinced the hyperbaric chamber is a death machine), but the blame for that lies with the companies that are trying to capitalize on the desperation of parents. Yeah, if you're…

A kid who compulsively punches himself in the face until he has black eyes and knocks out teeth is not just "being who he is." These parents aren't illiterate yokels experimenting on their kids because they have nothing better to do. They're desperate and they're not getting any help from our shit for-profit…

Ehhhh, maybe, maybe not. Just like other people have found that hyperbaric oxygen chambers have been shown to benefit people with other disorders/diseases, there is a lot of biomedical stuff going on in the bodies of autistic kids, and some parents have tried the oxygen chamber and sworn positive results. That doesn't…

Not all parents of autistic kids are anti-vax, and not all of those who try alternative therapies out of desperation are anti-vaxxers either. A lot of these parents have kids who are so severe, they have to wear helmets and restraints throughout the day just to keep them from beating the shit out of themselves and…

Well, not exactly. The jury is still out, and most autism researchers agree that it's impossible at this point to say whether the rise in cases is due to broadened diagnostic criteria or a legitimate rise in children who have it. The reality is that autism is a spectrum, and no two cases look exactly alike. My brother…

No. No, I refuse to accept this. This is simply too awful to have ever happened to anyone, ever. NICE TRY, INTERNET.

Wuuuuuut?

Gawd, I'm so sick of the "capitalism is color/gender-blind" bullshit. The market is not this pristine ecosystem business majors and VCs love to play it up to be—the market is people, and people very often suck when it comes to identifying their own race/gender/class biases.