Yes! And think about how awkward it is to say no. No, I have decided for you that you can’t have me-time right now. It is an adult’s job to know if they are pulling their own weight (taking care of their parenting and household responsibilities) and when they need me-time and take me-time only when it is appropriate.…

Eh, the part where this went wrong wasn’t when his exhausted wife said okay to him spending an extra two hours of me time while she sat home with the baby, it was him being completely unaware of what an insane request that was in the first place. Seriously, we have to expect men to be so stupid that they don’t realize…

“Exactly! It’s just ignorance. I don’t think there’s any other explanation. So I think the best thing is just to let the dude in your life know what’s up before it becomes a huge resentment.”

this is pretty dark, but once I considered how I would handle things if my partner were to die (she’s got odd hours, rides a scooter and had a wreck early on in our second child’s life) it really changed my ideas about parenting/household stuff. At first I wanted to be fair and square, 50/50, we had a chore list and…

This guy definitely deserves a cookie, though. Not necessarily for changing his ways and taking on his equal share in the house, but for publicly admitting he was wrong (to way more people than were in the original conversation) and improving his ways. Publicly apologizing in a way that will help other people to come…

Yes, but has this been an endemic and widespread problem in Ohio?

The way to address the gender imbalance problem is with gender equity, rather than placing restrictions on women’s access to reproductive health care. Similarly, I’m all for continued improvements and enlightenment re: attitudes toward and resources for people with disabilities. If we have a society where having a…

The woman with the baby is my ex-stepsister.

The worst. There was this one song called Mother Trucker that she hummed all the time. She hummed it like it was a gospel song, she even closed her eyes while doing it sometimes. God I hated that woman. I bet she tells people that I’m her black friend so she can’t be racist.

I was at an intersection yesterday, and some guy, about sixteen by the look of him, crossed the road on one of these, very slowly and very poorly. At one point he sort of tipped over onto the hood of my car and then continued slowly crossing, using my car for support.

I thought it was a square of toilet paper.

Can you imagine the hit your ego must take when you’re cast as an off-brand Dave Coulier?

Hahahaha oh god. This comment reminds me - are baby boomers still calling millenials entitled? Cause that shitz needs to stop. If you didn’t have to take on life destroying loans in order to maybe, someday, qualify for a job with middle class level wages, you have no right to call folks who have no other choice lazy…

I think you’re right but I’m reluctant to use the term “female privilege” since the reason the sentence is so light is because of patriarchical ideas about women’s sexual agency. So the paradox is, female sex offenders benefit from those ideas because specifically because they’re not privileged.

The other day these two young women in skintight clothes and full makeup were getting tacos in front of us. They assumed I couldn’t speak the language and started saying they would *die* if they looked like me. I felt so bad. Not for myself —my life kicks ass— but for them.

I don’t think that any woman is “cry[ing]” about you regurgitating some anti-woman 4chan meme about “sammich[s]”. More like laughing. Laughing at you, which is fine, but also laughing at the hypocrisy of feminists like you and by extension feminism, which is less fine.

Hey, maybe he WAS asking for it. But 15-year-olds will also ask for a houseful of free-roaming venomous scorpions as pets, or ask for permission to go base jumping with bank robbers dressed as luchadors. But as goddamn ADULTS, we recognize that CHILDREN will very often ask for things THEY SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN.

People are willing to believe a 15-year-old has more sexual agency than an adult, if the adult is a woman and the child is male. That’s why people might feel sorry for her, or think she’s mentally ill, or think the young boy made a choice in the matter while the grown woman had no say.

I hate this woman.

I work in finance and the “pay cash for everything” people really are hurting themselves. You have to look at opportunity cost and other factors before making that decision.