He is *not* an anti-abortion candidate. He may be personally pro-life but he stands for choice in office. 100% rating from Planned Parenthood, 100% from NARAL.

And they’re all wrong.

Jimmy fallon is like a full-body cringe, made sentient.

I can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of Amber Heard’s, but her come up is strong.

are you serious? you’re just going to ignore jeffree star’s history of using racial slurs against black & mexican people, saying he’d throw battery acid on a black woman to lighten her skin, and more recently threatening to beat a black woman youtuber to the ground. he’s vile & racist and I’m glad he’s finally getting…

No, I’m directing my anger at you for reading something by de Sade and then coming to the conclusion that people work with abused kids and women because they get off on it. And by chance if one employee was the type who would, then the other employees would quickly pick up on it if they had even the slightest amount…

Do you have the slightest fucking clue what goes in to working a job like this? (Rhetorical question — I know you don’t.) We’re trained in picking up nonverbal cues and intimations; even a hint at perversion like that would be detected by somebody (especially at my current job at a children’s shelter, which is staffed…

I work with victims of abuse; I have never once been “titillated” by hearing an 8 year-old mention that he spreads his shit around the bathroom because that was the only thing that kept his dad from coming in there to molest him, or by a 19 year-old who had been trafficked casually explain how she uses sex to get her…

Actually, my previous snarky comment aside, I was thinking about this over lunch and what really rubs me the wrong way about the typical homeschooling advocacy I hear — this piece emphatically included — is that most of what they present as “education” is stuff that my parents did with little baby…

The term “homeschooling” often conjures up images of Christian conservatives isolating their ten children from the secular education found in public schools, teaching “traditional values” at the kitchen table.

With a title like “”A Normal Parents Guide To Homeschooling” and lines like “I left my job and the condescending gynecologist, had a natural birth, freelanced so I could stay home, co-slept and breastfed for two and a half years, and then repeated the process with baby number two and three.”, what on earth made you…

You can make it work, you just have to prioritize it, like everything else.

In my albeit limited experience, the types of parents who choose to home school their children are the same types of parents who believe that their children are super special snowflakes who are invariably gifted and so far above average that they require a super special snowflake upbringing.

2 and 4.5 aren’t school age. what’s you’re doing is raising your children, not homeschooling.

A weirdly high number of people I went to high school with now homeschool their kids. I remember these people from attending school with them, and none of them struck me as particularly intelligent or even intellectually curious. They post all the time about how their kids got all As on their most recent tests. Never…

“Homeschooling doesn’t *make* one socially awkward. You either are or you’re not”

This is not even close to accurate. There isn’t an innate unchangable level of social awkwardness. Kids end up socially awkward because they don’t get the experience necessary to learn how to navigate social interactions with peers. For…

Counterpoint: I have never met a homeschooled kid that wasn’t weird or socially awkward. Taking them out for play encounters and day trip excursions isn’t the same as learning how to interact with their peers on a daily basis. Learning how to be functional in society is almost more valuable than the actual knowledge…

I try really hard not to criticize how other people parent their children... Co-sleep or cry it out, natural birth or c-section, attachment parenting or au pair, working mom or stay at home, I won’t weigh in on another parents decisions in any of those areas.

I could never homeschool because my kids aren’t named Rain and Skye, I prefer to vaccinate them, they have had haircuts before the age of 5, none of them have a strange food allergy and, quite frankly, both of us parents have to work.

I mean, yeah, I could homeschool. But then I’d have to spend a bunch of time with my kids.