Is this going to turn into another one of those threads about how real women grow up, trade their Mary Janes for stilettos, and their brights colors for beige power suits?

#Boring

I blame the NY Times for this, not the teens.

What the fuck? Is this 1997?

Seriously. If I ever decide on a tattoo, I will message my friend who moved to Canada and ask him where he got his tattoos, since they're the most beautiful, artful ones I have ever seen. I won't get drunk and wander into the closest tattoo shop, no.

Boyfriend and I have been watching "Twilight Zone" marathon. Rod Serling is my bonus. It's mostly the way he talks, but he ain't bad to look at either. (Oh, sexy dead men.)

Most of the men and ladies I crush on are a bizarre mix of want and want to be.

I understand.

No, it's bullshit to imply that a high, rigid standard of education is the only way parents could do this. My parents had a half an MA in journalism and chunks of college between them. Homeschoolers know other people, they have groups, they ideally take some classes outside or at a community college. I want highly…

I am pretty jazzed to have earned an "Office Space" (I think?) gif of a response!

I grew up being one of three homeschool families that weren't Christian. And only one of those other ones did I see regularly (they were the crazy hippie kind of homeschooler). Yeah, I had to watch my swearing, and there was always the religious divide. But these were nice people, good people. Some of them grew up to…

Wow, and here I thought homeschool prom was just the land of awkwardly edited rap songs and Christian rock re-imaginings of "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees.

True story, children. True story.

Sure, that's a great reason to dismiss an entire variety of schooling.

Bullshit.

If you seriously, seriously wouldn't date someone who was your ideal except hair color, yeah, I think blonde guy might have a point. I'd say the same for height, weight, etc.

I realize there's a line you eventually hit called "I DESERVE YOUR LOOOOOVE, BLARGH STALK STALK" and that is not okay, of course. But hair color?…

It's amazing how much I don't relate to this.

My SISTER, however, likes to critique the clothing and hair choices of both my mother and me.

I'm not grossed out so much as totally scared!

I don't want to experience the process, nor watch it, but props to all of those getting that business done.

There's no video of my mom giving birth, so it will never come up. She has always been annoyed by its portrayal in movies, though. She says the generic screaming and pushing isn't everyone's experience.

I'm still too scared to watch real video of a birth, though. Much less have a kid myself.

I haven't seen my mom naked lately, but I've seen her and everyone else in my family naked at some point in life. Naked and OH, IT'S ME COMING OUT OF THE BIRTH CANAL! would be two very different things, though.

Lysander Spooner is her avatar, as in the 19th century individualist philosopher who once wrote an essay that said women shouldn't get the vote, but not because they weren't equal to men in all ways, but because voting was bunk.

Yeah, she's a real woman-hater for using Spooner's picture.

My parents taught me to not to respect mindless, baseless authority. Which is why I respect them, but don't, say, mindlessly repeat the Pledge.