I felt the same way. To me this was less "unable to say no" and more "picking her battles." Ya gotta do it every day as a parent.

I've heard from a few doctors (I ended up at a bar with a bunch of people in town for a medical conference) that Scrubs is surprisingly accurate.

I'm a big fan of the sentiment "I'm sorry, and feel free to hate me for awhile." It acknowledges that apologies, while helpful, don't erase what was done.

"Stop poking the dog's butt."

GAH I KNOW. I would love to just shadow another parent of a toddler for a few days. Even on the rare occasions I have a playdate with my other mom friends (I work FT and spend weekends with my family) there are so many moments where I think "whoa, you can DO that?" and "holy shit, that worked?!?!"

This is a little weird. Others have commented that the camera is likely clipped to the mirror, which is safer, but still weird. Possibly weirder.

What was really rage-inducing about the chain restaurant I used to work at was that the tip-out was factored into the hosts' and bussers' hourly wages.

Dude. It's weird and it's tacky, but the comments about how OMGDANGEROUS it is are just ridiculous. Yes, the baby was in mortal danger for being strapped to a length of fabric that was slowly sliding along a hardwood floor. Call CPS. Good grief. This is a non-story and people's moral outrage is laughable.

They are at risk of shaken baby syndrome from bumps and shakes without their head stabilized.

Yep - that was exactly my point. Rodgers' manifesto suggests his parents coddled him, but it also suggested that all women were bullies. Obviously the latter is a delusion, so the former may be as well.

Not denying you your feelings, they're completely understandable. But as far as his parents' coddling of him: His manifesto and other writings also depicted women who obviously did nothing wrong as deliberately snubbing him out of malice. It's not the best source on which to form an opinion about their parenting.

Uh, babies are a lot more resilient than you give them credit for. "Even one person's" "misstep" causing a "profoundly different ending"? Unless the "misstep" involved a stiletto heel directly on the baby's skull, I have a hard time figuring out how.

"Well... it could have been worse. Dragging your baby across a floor on a blanket or towel is something people do, right?"

I'm kind of curious how the baby was secured. Was there a strap or something?

Yeah... I'm not plus-sized, but I have a belly. It's just a pouch of belly fat that's hung around since having a baby. My boobs are barely B-cups, my hips are slender, and I have a flat butt. But a belly.

When you see naked or close to naked women on TV or in ads, they're pretty much always skinny, and same when you go to the beach-it's usually only skinny girls in bikinis.

The #YesAllWomen campaign wasn't about making men "collateral damage." It was about drawing attention to the unique ways in which women are targeted by this sort of antisocial, toxic form of masculinity* - not that our being targeted is unique, but the manifestation is unique and widespread, which even you…

For example, can you give me a reason why your choice of words 'The conversation is about women's experiences at the hands of men in a misogynistic culture' is better than 'The conversation is about women's experiences at the hands of misogynists?'

I feel the same way. On the one hand, I get it when the couple started out as really close friends and then fell in love. But when they've only ever been involved romantically, it always sounds to me like they're making their significant other the be-all, end-all of their emotional support, and that is a lot of…

I wish combo feeding was more encouraged. That's what I did with my son, and it felt like both "sides" tried to undermine me. There was this sense that the only way to breastfeed was to do so exclusively, and I know a lot of mom friends of mine who ran into problems gave up rather than mixed-feeding.