I used to do kind of the same thing. Either sleep with my mother til I was a pre-teen or sleep at her locked door when she had a man over. But I know what was happening to me during the day (and sometimes at night) that made me feel so unsafe, so it wouldn’t seem terribly unusual. But that is another story.

Parenting is a continuous exercise in picking your battles.

I’m fine believing that most of the xoJane pieces written lately are actually by a bunch of dudes in a conference room

This one actually makes my flesh crawl.

It’s questionable regardless of gender and orientation. I don’t think anyone is upset as much as puzzled about it.

Eh. People get old at different rates. I remember reading a New Yorker profile of higher right after the gay marriage decision, and not only does she have a far livelier social life than my 40 years younger self, she was discussing a potential date with a third party setting them up and said something like “are they…

This gives me pause too. I have to wonder about the motives of someone who is almost 40 years younger marrying someone who has maybe 10 years left if they are really lucky. I hope it was just that Windsor really wanted to get married and Kasen is fulfilling a wish, like terminally I’ll people sometimes do. But the…

Yikes.