In a world where you can have a family member say you’re a bigot in a reference check, and still becone a police officer... what would be saying enough?

Makes him a good “culture fit.”  I’m sorry.

Of course he got hired, you gave him a glowing recommendation in their eyes

More family betrayal! Emily West is warning her fellow Missourians not to vote for her racist father, 64-year-old Steve West. “He’s made multiple comments that are racist and homophobic and how he doesn’t like the Jews,” she said. “I can’t imagine him being in any level of government.”

Totally. I’m sorry you invited her because you were friends? Mother f’er, I’ve been friends with someone since high school. We were college roommates. And the first whiff of Trump support and she was fucking done. Gone. Bye. See ya. No I’m not going to your kids bitch ass party and bitch ya ain’t coming to mine. She…

Bernie. Can you not?

Hugh Jackman is dead to me. And I am very disappointed in all of the other party guests who were polite to Jared and Ivanka.

I had this with my partner last night - a depressing but necessary talk about physical space and consent and how it’s not cute to ignore people’s (but especially women/femme people) boundaries. He’s very...hm, programmed male? If that makes sense? He’s a feminist, and an amazing ally, but still has blind spots, and…

I’ve avoided commenting for literal years, but I just had to tell you that I’m so with you. I’ve had the same experience. But, add my mom to the shouting match. She flat-out doesn’t get it. She isn’t the woman I thought she was and learning that in my 40s has been more of a mindfuck than my own rape when I was 15 and…

Omg

Came here to say that. Sorry, but the second your kid starts grabbing the boobs of women that aren’t mom, it’s gone on too long. If they’re walking and talking, it’s fucking creepy. Period.

To be fair, the WHO tracks nursing in all areas of the world. If you are in an area that is food insecure or who doesn’t regularly have access to proper nutrition, of course you are going to BF as long as you possibly can. In the western world, it is just not necessary for the child.

I BF my twins, (so I have my street…

I think for a lot of outside observers some of these ‘too much mom’ things don’t come across as being too involved in their kid’s lives - and homeschooling is a great example here - it comes across as ‘I literally only trust myself and myself alone to do right by my child. Everyone else will screw them up and hold…

Yeah, I was sharing a house with “friends” and I was watching their children when they were out one night and her 18 month old started trying to go for the boobs.  NOT OKAY and, truly, creepy as fuck.

I’ve had it happen to me, FWIW. Not sure if it’s rare or not. I would think a child of a certain age would be able to distinguish between mother boobs and non-mother boobs, but who knows?

I wonder if there are any surveys from the now grown-up children who were breastfed into these later years. How vivid are those memories? 

I hated being a mom to babies and toddlers. I breastfed each of my kids to a year and a few months, then I was done. When you are pregnant/breastfeeding, your body is not your own anymore, and it made me very annoyed to have put what I wanted to do with my body on hold until the kids were ready to not be so close to…

“He would even unclip my nursing bra for me and say, ‘Thank you, mommy,’ afterward.”

I actually got in a shouting match with my dad and husband this weekend.  It wasn’t even a big thing, more of an offhand comment by one of them that was tone-deaf, but all of this constant barrage of shitty news and the pent-up rage I have just boiled over.  I think they both get it now, better than they did, but…