Obviously the woman gets to decide not to have kids. Duh. The dude's stance about wanting kids before 40 was related to his ultimatum that they need to either commit to having kids together or break up. I'm not sure why you should see any problem with that.

Yeah, I always wish people would have focused more with his actual problematic stances and beliefs, rather than harping on the "binders full of women" comment. It really was just a bit of awkward phrasing, not a true sign of misogyny, and I felt like the whole hoopla over it rather missed the mark.

My boyfriend has that. He is divorced and has 50% custody of his kid. So he has a week of running around to gymnastics lessons and working on science fair projects, and then a week just chillin' with me, eating nice dinners and having sex. He actually marvels sometimes at what a good system it is, and how it's a…

This guy deserves a lot of criticism, but not because he has a specific timeframe in mind for when he wants kids. For one thing, there are some biological reasons for men to have kids earlier; sperm count and quality does degrade over time, even if it's usually not as big a deal as it is for women.

Your situation sounds a lot like my sister's. She has a Ph.D. and a great job; her husband didn't even have a bachelor's when they met, though he recently earned it. If it's encouraging to you, he's been great as a stay-at-home dad for the past year.

That sounds just like how I have felt about it. As my life is going right now, it looks like I will end up not having biological children. My boyfriend has a daughter already, so I can get some of the experience of being a parent without having to start from scratch. He says he would be happy to have more children…

It's funny. I have a friend who is dying to have kids, and she can't seem to find a man who wants them. Whereas I am totally ambivalent, and I feel like I've dated plenty of guys who wanted a family.

I am excited to see your reaction when I inform you that I have no idea who or what Ween even is.

Huh. I don't feel like it's the make-up that's the primary problem there. It seems like she's got some kind of weird Botox effect. Apparently she used to look like this:

Yeah, all the people who had access to MTV when they were kids in the '90s tend to forget that for those of us who didn't have MTV, some of this stuff did not seem ubiquitous at all.

I agree with your general point that he seems like a decent dad in real life, but I wouldn't so easily dismiss those "few songs" as no big deal. It's not like he just wrote abstract songs about the joys of fatherhood or something; he included them by name in dozens of songs, some of which were full of violent and…

If you're curious why this is notable to some people, Eminem's early music frequently mentioned Hailie as a baby/toddler. Most famously in the song '97 Bonnie and Clyde, which is a violent fantasy about murdering her mother and taking her on the run.

I was kind of thinking that too. Isn't it now recommended that you should always keep LinkedIn up to date, even if you are not currently looking for a new job? It just makes sense to add in things as they happen, rather than scrambling to remember what you've been doing when you're desperate for a job. Also, I find…

I agree that the law should have some sort of protocol for exemptions, as long as you can get a doctor to certify that you are healthy at your weight (even though that would probably end up getting abused).

FFS, it's not like they're forcing people to be a size 10. The standards they are setting are pretty easy to attain if you are not anorexic.

I certainly wasn't trying to compare them as if they're equivalent or anything. I meant that just because you can see the economic advantage of utilizing a certain group in your operation does not mean that you actually think well of them.

Don't you just come for the comments anyway?

Excellent choice. There's a reason why one of the worst things you can do in a job interview is badmouth your previous employers. It works the same for relationships. If someone can never seem to have a civil connection with anyone and always unilaterally blames the other party, they are probably the problem. Even…

Intelligent people can still make serious missteps if they are expected to navigate race relations in America at 6:45 in the morning while attempting to steam milk. Even if Starbucks required all staff to have PhDs, I think it would still take a lot of faith to expect them all to handle this well. I don't think the…

That makes perfect sense! Just like how plantation owners couldn't possible have been racist, or why would they have relied on so many black people on their cotton-picking teams?