Good for your friend. He may have given them a new perspective - they may really not have thought about it from the stand point of some one else before.

I think that was the point people were trying to make when they said, "I am not a feminist, but a humanist" - I think they were trying to say that they did not feel women were BETTER. Just that one gender is not inherently better than the other - which, yes is what "feminism" means to most of us but I think it is a…

I went to a small liberal arts college where if you broke the honor code (including cheating) you were expelled. I really liked it, because it seemed like it leveled the playing field.

OOOH! I want to wear a suit and bow-tie! Maybe grown-up women can wear that - just because? Hmm. . would people laugh at me . . in a bad way? I wore a seer-sucker pants suit to work once, and I got a lot of comments, but in hindsight I realized they were more, "I am not sure what to say here" than complementary.

Thanks! I should have gotten that one! I only figured out what "NSFW" meant after I clicked on a link - at work.

I have not seen the Peter Pan movie. BUT I will say, whatever your concern, it is fair to explain it (gently) to the kids. Even young children can understand something like, "It makes me feel sad to see a group of people being made fun of, just because their parents are from another country. I do not think it is…

Many commenters have had a big problem with the image of Anne Frank as a “Holocaust Princess”: I think that discomfort is the point. It SHOULD make you uncomfortable.

YES!!!! I very stupidly let my son watch "Pocahontas" because it was on netflix and I was desperate. I started watching it and wanted to vomit - they have a scene where she keeps her people from attacking the white invaders, and I wanted to yell,"No! Attack them! They are going to kill almost ALL of the people in…

OK, I feel stupid: What is a "WOC"?

I was very recently trying to figure out how to address some of these issues with my child, who noted (LOUDLY) that one of his classmates was a girl who looks like a boy. The girl may be a tom boy or she may be trans gender, I do not know.

It is pronounced "Ayelet"

Dude - my name is on that list! Does that mean I am a retro-hipster? Or is it only hip if I use my name "ironically"?

GAWD, I have seen a few gross wound-shots. And I am not of the strong stomach.

On the Facebook Insufferability Meter: I think minor illness whining is the worst (when it is all they ever post). I know a few people who *constantly* post about minor health complaints: "I still have a sore throat" "My ingrown toenail is bothering me again" - just debbie downer banal drivel. Plus, sometimes it…

I mostly interview men, but generally for an interview: you should look like you are going to an interview and take it seriously. Look professional, pulled together and appropriate. The exact out fit can vary depending on the type of office. Both dresses and pants suits can be appropriate if they are professional…

I have been a transactional corporate lawyer for 14 years. For most of my career, women were an anomaly. Frequently, I was the only woman in the room at meetings and big financing closings. I have been mistaken for a secretary and I have been asked to get coffee. Once, when I was covering a board meeting, the…

Also – listening to people talk about their diet all the time is SO BORING! I think if people freed up all of the time and energy spent on “dieting” and being “bikini-ready” and used it to think about something else - I don’t know, space travel or art or kittens or whatever - EVERYONE would be happier.

If that had happened in Western NC, the guy with the fake gun would have been shot. Because one of the kids would probably have had a gun (for going hunting after school). Seriously.

A major break up like this IS a big deal. I still remember the break-up from my 20s as incredible painful. I have been through deaths of loved ones, kids with major health problems, all kinds of things that anyone would recognize as a tragedy. In some ways, the break-up in my 20s of a very serious relationship was…

I would do almost anything for my kids. In fact, I might even do things that I felt were . . well, wrong. I have been tempted to put extra decorations on their book reports, or make their science fair project (because I want everyone else to think my kids are great too!). BUT then I think, “What kind of ADULT do I…