Huzzah! That’s awesome. I grew up in a neighborhood where all the kids went from house to house and played in backyards without parents even knowing who was around. It was free-spirited and innocent and wonderful. I miss that house, and my neighbor’s house, and my other neighbor’s house. Your daughter is going to grow…

Omg, GO YOU! That’s wonderful!

I haven’t been through something similar, but I have been watching my best friend go through this exact thing for the past 2 years. Her metabolism just doesn’t work like a 16-year-old’s anymore, but she keeps insisting that if she eats 1,200 calories a day and works out multiple times per week, she’ll get back to…

No! It’s infuriating. Their logic is that the seat is dirty, which is why they have to hover. (Then they make the seat dirty by sprinkling pee over it, which serves as justification for the next hoverer.) They wouldn’t dare to touch the seat to lift it out of the way. Because it’s dirty.

I hear what you’re saying, but the problem is that everyone isn’t going to agree on which jobs are more valuable; the only truly fair thing to do is to make all benefits equal. Personally I think teachers and doctors should be paid more than politicians and stockbrokers, but I can’t enforce that just because I say so.…

Congrats on all the good stuff! I love the responses you’ve received so far on the cohabiting-while-clean subject. I hope my suggestions won’t be too repetitive:

God I would LOVE to see that report.

Gerrymandering + Koch money + Supreme Court failure to uphold Voting Rights Act + 9/11 + our country’s failure to reconcile with the legacy of racism + the eternal laziness of youth

At this point I think we could nuke ourselves into oblivion and the planet would be like fucking thank you.

Yep. I won’t go so far as to say that Gaia is sentient, or that any of this is part of a larger cosmic plan (not saying you are, either, but some people definitely go there), but we overfished the oceans and bred beyond what the planet can sustain, and now it seems really plausible that in the next 30 years, 1/7 of…

The plot lines on that show are bananas. “It’s been three whole months since you got something right that literally everyone else was fucking up. Gawd, we are so tired of this new thing you’re insisting you’re right about. Why are you being so meeeeeeeeeeean?” It’s like if Homeland were written by a computer program…

They don’t sell a 36A for the majority of their bras. If I have one more earnest sales associate swear that a 34B is “the same” as a 36A, I will lose my mind. They make those two different sizes for a reason - the 34 band is not wide enough for someone whose ribcage measures an actual 36", and it pinches. I can get by…

Fucking thank you! I look for racerback bikini tops because I hate the pull of weight from a halter tied around my neck, and I want straps that aren’t going to fall off my shoulders, but I don’t necessarily want to cover up my upper-body. I love my stomach area - it’s not perfect, but it’s damn sexy, and I don’t mind…

Joey Biden respectfully disagrees.

I’m super disappointed that his true identity was squashed into an update rather than meriting its own article. This entire scenario reads to me like he was looking for his next victim to stalk and harass. How many phone numbers and email addresses did he acquire from self-described feminists before he was outed?

I’m with you. This guy needs to be on a watchlist. The woman he identified and complained about, Jessica Valenti, is the one who wrote the online harrassment article that was circulating through many people’s newsfeeds last week. There is zero chance that was a coincidence, and my gut says there’s a near-100% chance…

You know what, I just thought long and hard about how that fanfiction would go, and I would not only read it, I would cherish it. Unironically and deeply, forever and ever.

Ugh ugh ugh ugh. So sorry you went through all that. Being stalked is not a compliment!!!

Not at all disagreeing with your rage, which I share, but Gurley was 28. (Feel free to edit your comment & dismiss mine, if you catch this within the editing window; I won’t take offense if this post disappears!)

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