Oh my word, and not that I've seen any of these actual pants themselves ever, but are they fucking magical? Like, the fabric is sometimes see-through? And now it apparently can't be produced in large sized patterns or it "stops working"? IT'S FABRIC! This fabric better be cooking me dinner and reading me a bedtime…

The extra silly thing about this is that (edible) gold leaf is available at many craft stores for pennies.

Actually based on some accounts of former members it seems like they are pretty cool with child abandonment, but they can't have their star member looking bad in public I suppose.

I work as a counselor in an elementary school (as a grad school practicum as well). I would love to get some of my kids' families into family counseling, but the best I can do is just suggest it as what's best for the child. Making the child's improvement the focus tends to create the least offense, rather than…

I have a great aunt who we only know was called Minnie (massive Irish family, three parents, a zillion siblings, a hundred years ago, etc) and it's one of my missions in life to figure out what her name was. Minerva? Wilhelmina? Angela? (My family are not known for their nicknames making sense.) It's probably…

Yeah, that's what I was thinking—Django Reinhardt the guitarist. I actually think it's a reasonably cool homage name.

No. No she isn't serious about "Minnebelle." I can't accept that.

Minerva is fucking awesome!! Dr. Minerva Whatever or Minerva Whatever, Esquire sounds badass. Dr. Minnebelle, I'm not so sure. Has your friend really pictured that one on a future 40-year-old woman?

My great-grandmother was Minnie, but it was short for Wilhelmina.

ooh I should suggest this to my SIL who was asking for baby girl names.

I had some great-aunts from the Netherlands who went by Min and Minnie, but their names were Wilhemina.

Hahaha! I said I would call the baby Minerva, but she insists on Minnebelle. I want Murgatroid.

Colton is NOT a hipster name. That is a white Southern suburbs name. Colton plays JV football and attends Vacation Bible School. Get with it.

I'm totally gonna check it out! April is seriously HILARIOUS. I have laughed out loud reading her Regretsy posts and I never laugh out loud.

Yay for aware, hardworking home schooling mom!

She's an Indian, not a Jew. Get your stereotypes straight.

I think the point they're going for here is that people are with distressing and unhelpful frequency saying that it's victim blaming to advise people to preemptively take precautions. It's completely abhorrent to say "that's what you get for being drunk", but it's not victim blaming to say "there are bad people, maybe…

I think this put into context what I feel when this topic comes up.

I work on a college campus and I like to use this analogy when talking to women and making my case about alcohol, women and rape:

Omigod, you guise. He didn't say he wanted to enslave black people. I'm sure he's talking about reinstating the Roman model of slavery with all foreigners deemed fair game as spoils of conquest & such. Like, in Nevada, tourist traps would be literal traps.