I know a bunch of people who are gun enthusiasts—but I know one family that probably qualifies as extremists. Oddly enough, they're a Mormon family that I used to nanny for in college. They've gotten riled up enough to blast me on Facebook twice—once for an article I posted on how the rates of death by gun violence…

I read the first half of this and was getting ready to grab my shirt and rip it open Hulk-style, and then I read the second half and calmed down.

Whooooa. That's not just crazy, that's like, organized crazy. That's a group of people who all got together and said "let's be crazy, and let's rehearse in advance." Christ...I'm sorry you had to go through that, but good on you for being brave enough to get up there anyway.

Jesus! I once had a dalmation rush out across the street and attack my dog while we were walking. And then just as quickly, the dog ran back to its owner who promptly hurried inside the house and shut the door, and all I could do was yell out "WHAT THE FUCK?!" My poor guy was so freaked out, I had to pick him up and…

Do you seriously think I'm talking about my dogs going crazy because someone else's dog has the decency to stay in their own yard? NO. For fuck's sake. I'm talking about assholes who let their dogs roam around off-leash and then when I cross the street with my Queensland Heelers, that off-leash dog decides to cross…

AGH! Seriously. My old neighbors had two wolf hybrids that were just free to roam all over the damned neighborhood and it used to piss me off so much (not just because they used to shit in my yard all the time). They were really sweet dogs, but wolf hybrids can be seriously dangerous, and even good dogs can snap. My…

Soooo, what I'm hearing is "I don't have herding dogs." Would that be an accurate summary of what you just said?

Your dogs are more than welcome to mosey around your property as much as they damn well please. But if they decide to stroll out across the street to say hi and my Queensland Heelers (if you don't have one, you won't get what I'm talking about) go crazy, that's where I can tell you to get your fucking dogs back in…

That's all I think whenever I hear these stories about dog attacks. I hear "asshole owner" over and over in my head.

Seriously. I fucking hate when people are like "no, my dog's cool, he's just gonna wander around the yard while I tool around in the garage," and then I walk past with my two territorial-as-fuck dogs on leashes and that asshole's dog mosies over to say hello.

And that's totally why when my friends who have said for years that they don't want kids start saying things like "maybe it would be cool. Maybe we SHOULD have a kid..." I'm like "doooon't doooo iiiiiittttt." It's not that I regret having my kid—I absolutely don't. It's just that if you know you want to live your life…

GOD, RIGHT?? I always catch myself saying my husband "does a lot"—by which I mean he does almost as much as I do in terms of housework and childcare. I still do the bulk of it, but when ever I start complaining about how overloaded I am with work and the kid and housework, I always find myself adding, "but I'm lucky…

I don't think it's really just that people have kids and realize after-the-fact that they hate being parents. In my case, my all-consuming rage at being a new parent came from the fact that I realized I had ZERO help from anyone—that no one was going to come to my home and ask if I had any questions about how to keep…

What really sucks about these is that I think so much frustration comes from a complete lack of social support for parents, since the workplace is still modeled on the assumption of a stay-at-home mom who does everything selflessly and without any help. Dads aren't "supposed" to leave early to pick up kids from…

"I've never been in a fight and had a hard time understanding why anyone could be physically violent but MY GOD there is some visceral human reaction to being hit in the face - you immediately want to hit back."

I was a TOTAL asshole at 15, but I blame a lot of that on being raised by super asshole Republicans.

The only benefit of the doubt I can really give is maybe it's just easier to keep everything organized and where you want it. I could see not wanting your house to turn into a bunch of designated "my stuff/your stuff" shelves and closets as it does with roommate situations, but still...

lol @ dude mansplaining feminism to me.

Yup. People who believe that extremist statements like that are representative of all of feminism—thereby eclipsing real issues like equal pay and maternity leave—are ignorant. Full stop.