I want to give Pamela Anderson the biggest, warmest, most appreciative hug I can right now. Such a sad story. It's remarkable whenever anyone can bring much-needed attention to a horrible issue from personal experience, and it's so telling that it's very often years and years after the fact. This is a woman who has…
I forget that I'm British and most of you aren't on this site haha, but please take that into account when I give anecdotal information.
YES! My dog is a rescue pit and is no good with other dogs unless I properly introduce them. Proper introduction does not include some random dog she has never met before bolting out of some random driveway up to her. Then the owners look at me like I'm the asshole because my dog is barking and in charge mode.. All…
We at Team Dog regret this incident and plan on investigating further.
PMS = "Physics and Math Suck" in GOPese.
I should have posted my other comment to you. I agree wholeheartedly. Society gives zero credit to people who are doing the best they can with what they've got. It's not like we all get practice babies so we can get good at this crap before we have to do it for realsies. One of the many reasons the idea of becoming a…
A HUGE part of the reason I never want children. To hell with that noise.
I'm heading for 36, and I don't have great health, and live in a different country from my family. I am leaning strongly towards not having kids mainly because being isolated </p><p>without that responsibility has been hard enough.... </p><p>I think it's crazy that the way so much of life is set up (nuclear family…
I had waves of assholery.
I like being a hero! I am totally a hero for asking my gynecologist about having my tubes tied at 14 :) He said no and cost me 33 years of birth control!
I think people forget how temporary it all really is because they look at it as a solid 18 year block of time, which it isn't. In reality, it's a only a few years of diapers, snot and tantrums. Once about 6 or 7 hits, it's pretty smooth sailing. Even the dreaded "teen years" aren't as hard as the toddler years, mostly…
There are a lot of shit moments. I don't ever regret it ever but I do get irrational angry at the world for not being able to "have it all" (kids, high-powered career, abs, unicorns!, etc). I do think that unless you have boundless energy or are fairly privileged there are parts of your life you have to put away or…
Meh. Sometimes, parenting isn't fabulous. My mother often said openly that the only reason she had so many kids was because birth control was illegal.
And I stalk one of my kid's social media accounts. He's an asshole, too, but he's 15. Everyone's an asshole at that age.
lol, angry white man.
In fact, most married women worked and earned money (be it farming, taking home piecework, or working in factories) right up until the 1950s, when the economic boom and increase in wages allowed one-income households to thrive.
Women have always been the "bread earners" in as much as growing, reaping, an processing grain is a female task in almost every society. One thing I remember from my fabulous "feminism 101" professor is that in hunter gatherer cultures, the majority of calories consumed by a family are procured by women. The men are…
Easy solution - as long as women are cheaper to hire, it just makes economic good sense to hire women. Raise women's wages to parity with men and there will be no financial disincentive to the hiring of men. And then maybe things will even out. Easy Peasy.
This dress + white couch really scared the shit out of me for a second.