You can police every aspect of your speech, you can wear the right things, you can get all the degrees and expertise, you can write the most fucking eloquent and heartbreaking courtroom statement and still there are men who will not hear you because they just don’t listen to women.

Never say never. Things I said I wouldn’t do before I had kids:

Duh, the real criminals here are the parents who dared to look away for a second. I’ve also been told by about a MILLION people on another thread that helicopter parents, not guns, are to blame for the UCLA student who killed their professor, then themselves. Don’t watch your kids close enough? Burn the witch! Watch…

I just feel like anything anyone says about this in the comments is going to be wrong. There is no good way to comment on this article.

“Hope Hicks” is also a key part of the RNC’s voter turnout strategy.

Is that a paper plate? Did you post a food pic of foot plated on a disposable plate?

NO WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO GET MY CONNIE BRITTON FIX NOW WHAT IS HAPPENING

Things I will miss:

Is anyone else slightly disturbed that we all just decided to accept Louis CK is a sex offender based on random, unrelated stories about random, unrelated comics acting creepy?

I read that “Sunday Routine” feature on the regular, and when I read this one I was positively joyful! You guys complaining about it must not be regular readers of that column. They usually go thusly: “We sleep in late on Sundays, till about 7:30am or maybe even 8:00. Then I hit the gym for an hour. On the way back I…

The only link I found between oral clefts and alcohol was for mothers who binge drink (5 or more drinks in a sitting) during early pregnancy. But, sure, it makes sense to assume that the glass or two of wine that your friend had is the reason her child has a cleft.

So what you’re saying is you had friends who drank occasionally while pregnant, who had children with birth defects, and you immediately blamed your friends for drinking, not considering for a moment the possibility of a genetic or other environmental cause.

Nonsense. Show me the studies that prove that a glass a week causes serious birth defects. Take your time, I’ll wait.

An 8-week-old fetus? At that stage it’s the size of a marble and barely recognizable as human. How did they even know what it was?

My husband and I had a good laugh at her idea that leaving to pick up kids from daycare is in the same realm as leaving to help your friend drink margaritas after a bad date. No one calls CPS on you if you’re late for margaritas.

I don’t like this attitude either.

It isn’t just other parents. Even on this very article non-parent commenters are talking about how modern parents just “have no life” and have “no identiy outside of being a mom.” Moms literally can’t win.

Maybe her date having friend is also a dependant minor whom she must console by 5pm, or OKC will call the police. That could be just as important. :/

One cool moment with my daughter is 10x more valuable than paris, to me.

I love being a working mom of a small child and am not miserable. I’m way happier than I was before I had her. That’s not to say you should want to have kids if you don’t. I’d rather people who don’t want kids continue not to have them. I just wanted to throw it out there that it isn’t terrible for some of us.

The mess, the screaming is no fun. But having a purpose beyond yourself brings joy. Being a mom isn’t the only way to have that sense of purpose, but for some of us, it’s the best fit.