Also, I don't get all the god snark. Yeah she's a fundi, but we're all entitled to our own religious beliefs.

God, you are full of it.

I've never probably said anything remotely controversial on Jez, and hopefully this isn't really... I have swatted my kids hands away from things and that has caused a major psychic wound, because it was interpreted as a hit so I am very careful. But (and here comes the but) I agree with the guy who wrote Toddler…

Pick your poison:

So racism can't be a part of any argument I make?

I didn't say I don't spank my son. I said I don't use spanking as punishment, but I do spank to get his attention/reset him in certain dangerous situations. I do not spank him when he's "doing something stupid." If that were the case, I'd basically be spanking him all the time. He's 3. About every other thing he…

Agreed. I have three kids and each of them at some point has received a 'swat' for something here or there. Chastise me if you want, but to this day all three of my kids are extremely well behaved, well mannered children that I can take to nice restaurants, your elderly aunt's home or on long plane rides. Now, that…

You still haven't replied to my other comment.

Spike has always had haters (mostly non-Black, though he has his share of mentally underdeveloped Negroes who can't stand the fact that he holds a mirror up to their shortcomings) due to his uncompromising intolerance of disrespect of Black people throughout his 30-year career.

I am a parent of a 3 1/2 year old. I was occasionally spanked as a child. My husband was regularly hit with belt or similar as a child. Spanking is not one of our punishment tools.

Close, and part of, but not altogether the reason.

Oh, you are so new. If you honestly think that the Black/Latin people who have been living in those neighborhoods for decades never complained to their aldermens and other district/city officials about the shitty conditions, then I have a lovely bridge to sell you. It connects Brooklyn to Manhattan and is quite…

That doesn't mean he loses his right an opinion. He grew up in the neighbourhood he's talking about.

Now cue the outrage from the white professional class Jezzies who just moved to Red Hook and like to brag to their friends at brunch how "vibrant" their neighborhood is but who have never talked to any of their neighbors who isn't also a white couple from Westchester.

The two years I spent as an accidental gentrifier (moved to NYC, didn't know any better, just picked a nabe with cheap rent) were some of the most humbling years of my life. He's right. You can't go stomping around in your Privilege Boots(tm), squashing the culture and traditions of those who made the neighborhood a…

To be honest as a young black Brooklyn girl born and raised i'm still on the fence about gentrification . For me its not about the "white" people moving in, its really about what happens when they move in which shows you just how racist New York City can be. Literally, the minute a white person moves into a…

You seem really hung up on the cheating thing, when that's not at all what I'm talking about. I'm talking about someone in a position of power fucking someone whom he at the very least perceives to be weaker than himself.

Well, going only by his narrative, they had sex once, and then she told him she would not be his mistress, which is why he decided to leave his wife a week later (and it's not clear if she knew he was married when they slept together the first time). But, no, 100% of the responsibility is on the person who is in a…

"There is no shame in admitting you don’t know everything about how to be a good friend, lover and partner". Says a cheater who tossed aside his wife and children. Choke on your sadness, dude.

Oh god, I can see it all unfolding. She has a fun fling with her boss, maybe after having a few beers at a music festival...and then all of a sudden he's tagging along at her local pub, introducing her to his kids as their "new mom" and telling her all about how he's leaving his wife who "doesn't understand him."