Nope. She didn’t think someone spiked her drink. It was a common joke line that was popular in movies during that time. Someone would say something outrageous and then go, “Say, what’s in this drink?” as a way of going, “I didn’t say that. It was the alcohol. I swear.”

...there’s nothing to “agree to disagree” about. That is ACTUALLY what the song is about. I’m not kidding, I’m not trying to give you a handwavey unfeminist reading of the song. That is literally what the song is about.

Because the song is about how the woman secretly wants to stay but she is afraid of what people may say about her. Like back then, an unmarried woman spending over night with someone who is not her husband would be a scandal. He is trying to convince her that it’s okay because, look, a storm is happening outside. Who…

Alright. Let me sit you down and tell you a thing. So “Baby It’s Cold Outside” was written in 1944 and it’s about a man and a woman discussing ways they can spend the night together because they are unmarried and doing so back then would be hugely disastrous socially for the woman. They come up with excuses they can…

Well this is truly outrageous.

Again (and again, and again), it’s old enough to know it’s a terrible idea, but for many people, they still don’t have the maturity to actually turn that knowledge into not doing the stupid thing. This is what keg stands and affairs and B.A’s in Communications have in common - it’s dumb as fuck on the face of it, but…

Yup. The families I know who are well-off are that way because both parents work high-paying jobs, not because hubby makes bank while the wife hangs around in pricey yoga pants. These stereotypes need to die like yesterday.

Claire Danes was 24 at the time - well within the range when people don’t have the maturity to comport themselves well in the face of “true love.” Billy Crudup was 34 and had a kid on the way. One of them is a forgivable asshole, at least, while the other should have been too busy supporting his new family to have his…

Naw. She might be tempted, but then she’d bump into a tearful Mary-Louise in the bathroom, realize the folly of what she was doing, and then ugly-cry to Jordan about his moral failings while she sent him on his way.

“clean”??? The vernix on a baby is not only clean it actually protects the baby from infections. Washing it off is ridiculously stupid. After pushing a whole human out of your body you seriously are not thinking about holding the photo ops until the vernix is gone. You are just glad it’s out of your body.

Yeah, my husband likes to complain that he was really uncomfortable sleeping on the pull-out couch in my room after my emergency c-section. I feel for the guy.

I know it’s stereotypical to say, but ugh, men.

BINGO. I’ve been a stay at home mom since our son was born. Myself and the two other SAHMs in my group of friends are all doing it because we can’t afford childcare. We could conceivably work, but everything we made would just go towards childcare. There’s no point. It makes me FURIOUS whenever people try to act like…

And then when your husband leaves you with the five kids he said he wanted, you’ll easily be able to jump back into the workforce. It's foolproof!

Yes, why would the daycare let another child in for free when they could have one whose parents pay over $2k a month to be there? At my kids’ daycare, where infant care is something like $2,400k a month, none of the staff can afford to send their kids to the daycare.

I feel like this “childcare can amount to 15 percent of a married couple’s income” needs a correction. Childcare *can* amount to a much larger percentage of a married couple’s income (and more than 40% of a single person’s income). Maybe those percentages are averages or something?

Insurance. Insuring a childcare business is horrifically expensive. Plus permits, inspections, etc. Labor cost is the least of it.

Sweet Dreams (Are Not Made of This.)

I really liked this piece — I think it does a good job of bringing out some nuances around trying to be a good, diligent partner. That said, I really need to point out some trends in the comments section that are representative of what happens in every comments section on the topic of sexual behavior.

Y’all need to get back to bringing Caitlyn Doughty around because the Death Fear around here strooong.

Asking for locks of hair is INCREDIBLY common when families lose a loved one. Much more than people realize, I think. But everyone is so afraid to talk about it...