WTF is the point of living in modern times if a person doesn’t avail herself of some of its luxuries, like a freaking pre-natal appointment to a midwife or something? Yet she will chatter on FB about the “primal instinct” that takes over. Guess what? Birthing can be pretty deadly, just look at history. But no, the…

I’m impatient and frustrate easily. It’s amazing how much patience I can muster for my kid. I didn’t have a good model for parenting, but I love my son so fiercely that making him feel that love and giving him every opportunity to be a happy, well-adjusted person have been at the center of how I parent. My kid is 14.…

My dad spanked me, my mom didn’t. And I can say it defined my relationship with both parents as a child in that I had a lot of trust issues with my dad and was afraid of telling him if I fucked up, so I only confided in my mom. I pretty openly hated my dad until adulthood because it was clear that while he liked the…

Yes, this. I vividly remember my dad teaching me not to tell lies and how terrible it made me feel about the lie I told, despite him not raising his hand or even his voice. I can’t remember why my mom spanked me and screamed at me most of the time. The only instances I actually remember were completely inappropriate -…

Ugh, I’m afraid they’ll have to be really little to not hear about it, but even then, the fact of the matter is that they will eventually grow up and learn that this happened in their own community. Apparently the Anti-Defamation League is saying that this is most likely the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S.…

Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh is literally Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. His house stands three blocks from the synagogue where today’s shooting took place and that little diorama of his community represented the community where this occurred.

Because locking animals who need to be out in the African plain into cages and small habitats makes them behave in unusual ways? Imprisonment tends to do that.

...and children.  

They say no because Blumhouse underpays like crazy and has a terrible work environment.

And there are lots of other directors out there, both male and female, who would!

Could be worse. I work at Micheals in the frame shop and one of our collections of custom moldings is by them and that means I have a lifesized cardboard cutout of them haunting my every step as I work. Their eyes follow my every movement. Their perfectly pressed chambray shirts cast a sickly blue light over my…

I don’t know much about Meghan Markle but I do know she’s 37 years young and looks great. The other day I read Sarah Sanders is 36 and Stephen Miller, believe it or not, is 34. That right there is the proof that evil ages you.

The Property Brothers are really bad actors, so it’s good that they aren’t going to be in the scripted show about their lives.

Uniforms are easy to hand down to younger siblings or neighbors, too. They don’t go out of style like casual clothing does. My little sister wore uniforms that my older sister had used eight years earlier, and no one was ever the wiser because polo shirts and blouses don’t really go in/out of style the same way other…

It sucks that they’re expensive in some places because there are ways to mitigate that if a school really wants to (at least in the US). For example, my high school doesn’t require a particular brand of khaki pants bought through a uniform company. You could get them wherever, so most of us wore $20 khakis from Old…

I’m not convinced that the findings of this study make a particularly strong case against school uniforms. The point is taken that girls feel that being in uniform makes them a target, but I do think that adult men who engage in street harassment will harass young girls whether they’re wearing school uniforms with…

Unpopular opinion: I loved having school uniforms. My family couldn’t afford to buy us a wardrobe full of new clothes each year, and school uniforms made that economic gap less obvious. Plus, it made getting ready each morning a lot easier—no fussing about what to wear each day. You grabbed your uniform from the…

So, let’s get something straight. A private, female citizen came forward to tell the country about her experience with sexual assault because she felt it was her duty to do so in order to give the people in charge a clear picture of the man who they were about to put on the highest court in the land for a lifetime…

This is not something to be celebrated. She’s not any kind of “empowered woman breaking barriers” in her industry. Rather, she’s exploiting the fact that she’s a woman as some sort of palliative to sell this otherwise unmarketably exploitive trash, which, while it evidently has a market, doesn’t make it any more worth…

I think she gets to keep the princess as she was born a princess, however, her husband does not get a title or promotion so to speak, unless the queen deigns to give them a title, which rumor has it, she will not.