My stepdaughter is almost 13 and so far, she only stops talking when she's playing Minecraft. Often not even then. She sits there and gives me a running dialogue of what she's doing. So basically they never stop talking? Until they hit their teen years, decide they hate you, and shut themselves in their room, or so…

Language changes over time. We are a country that now says "literally," even when we are not being literal.

I agree. Last night I went on a rant about how "IF MY PLANE GOT DIVERTED BECAUSE OF SOME ASSSHOLES FIGHTING OVER A SEAT BEING RECLINED I WOULD PUNCH SOMEONE OUT", and then I realized that we should all be fucking pissed at the airlines. We are paying for that discomfort and it is fucking ridiculous. They've got us…

Says the nation who spends millions on gluten free bread for no particular reason.

I will devour this like so much maple sugar snow candy.

Screw that, when are the Gingerbread lattes back?!

No, pedophilia isn't harmful to children. Child molestation is. They aren't interchangeable terms.

well no, not good, considering truly progressive countries have life sentences capped at around 20-25 years and don't have consecutive sentences . Consecutive and natural life sentences are cruel and unusual punishment. This kind of thing would never happen in Sweden. In a civilized, liberal society, prisons should…

Look up the word restitution. It is about restoring the victim, not revenge.

You can, justifiably, blame a lot of people for the shitty way we handle rape cases, but fuck off with the defense attorney. Their duty is to their clients, not you, not the state, not the victim, not anyone other than the person they're defending. Come back to me with that bullshit once you've been on the other side…

Not lumping my comment in with that robocopper guy, but the Gawker libel attorneys must be on vacation this week or something, because a "Rapist Jocks" headline on top of their photo on top of a lede that doesn't have one "allegedly" or attribution to a privileged source is going to make one hell of a Plaintiff's…

Jezebel is now a space exclusively for body snarking, blind outrage and general hypocrisy. It felt like it really went downhill since the comment section got remade.

Would like me to get you a milkshake to go with the straws you're grasping at? You are fighting every commenter to death, with nonsense. If the context is HIV transmitting sex, lesbian sex is not relevant. Just, because someone failed to outline EVERY SINGLE permutation of what sex could be when they used the word…

FFS. Considering that some of the people this man was sleeping with were MEN, yes, I think we're all aware that queerness exists. The presence of a penis does not equal the absence of queerness. I get and respect the mission you're on, because language matters, but in a conversation about HIV transmission, lesbian sex…

This is the ONLY STD where there are disclosure laws on the books and people in jail for not disclosing. Even when no infection takes place. Even when condoms are used, in many states. And even when the activity has never been documented to transmit HIV.

Mine's Goodnight Moon, but hers has a surprise ending. It's a draw.

Tenets, not tenants. http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/gram…

This one really pisses me off too. It's not my dad's name. It's MY name. I've lived with it for 40 years, had to correct people's spellings/pronunciations of it, filled it out on more paperwork than I could dream of remembering.

Addendum: at the end of the day, if you have a reason, like your father was an asshole, fine. But that's a whole lot of ladies changing their names. And I went to a women's college! And I still see them all adding husband's name, but he doesn't return the favor.

Why?

Ultimately, the act of naming a child after yourself as a woman is an act of preserving your own name. But that name is probably your father's name.