Do little girls still grow up reading the Little House books? Maybe some kind of shift has occurred since I was a kid, but it definitely makes sense to me that a line of historical dolls would be successful, with stories included to explain the context for why things looked the way they did.

Samantha’s story was a bit deeper than I understood as a kid. Her aunt was a suffragette, and and Samantha’s best friend was an orphan who was being abused and forced to work as a maid.

Why is tweeting the be-all end-all in showing support for a woman who has endured terrible trauma? Does it have to be public? Would it be less meaningful if Taylor sent Kesha a nice text or invited her over for a quiet dinner?

Yeah, do they really intend to release and promote six more Kesha albums after this?

This is hard to parse because in 2008, I’m sorry, there was definitely a notion of “electing our first black president.” I remember taking the train to school on election day and hearing people use the phrase “We’re going to make history today.” I can’t say that I thought Obama was the best Democratic candidate that…

I love Joni Mitchell’s thoughts on the free-love thing. Even at the time, she saw it as a forum for men to fuck and exploit a lot of sincere, naive women who didn’t yet have a roadmap for how to move forward with their post-Betty Draper lives.

I’ll never forget the day my male science lab partner commented on my fb: “You missed both classes this week. Come back so I can keep copying off you.”

I LOVE SOUP

In this instance, does “feminine care” mean tampons or some type of wipe or something along those lines? The Honest Company is more about topical/skin stuff. Though I’d love it if they started making applicator-free tampons in a Super-Plus size.

But would you realistically embark upon a relationship with a guy who was unemployed? Or who seemed like he was going to be bartending into his 40s? Or who, for whatever reason, wasn’t drawing a predictable paycheck every two weeks?

Given the content of this article, I’m not going to couch my comment in disclaimers or a pseudo-humble preamble. I’ve lost count of the men who, in the midst of dumping me, have told me I’m the smartest person they know. My last pre-relationship (we’d gone out on 2 or 3 dates) fell apart after I told him how much I…

The way I see it, if there’s a decent chance that the government will be paying to help raise a child, it has the right to make sure the kid is being raised right. Yes, the grandparents were there to help, but Sara’s mom quit her job to be present, and don’t forget that (inconclusive or not) Sara’s dad had been…

I’m wondering if the X-Files isn’t as easily updated as we’d expect. The original series was heavily rooted in Boomer nostalgia - the living memories of WWII and the sincerity of the way the older generations clung to US history made for shocking “revisions” of history. It also helped that narrative storytelling in…

From the linked article:

I didn’t mean to imply that Sara’s dad is the father of her baby. However, the article makes no mention of whether Sara had a job or was in any kind of day program at the time, and given the fact that she doesn’t use transportation and isn’t one for texting, I’m concerned about the logistics of how she got pregnant.…

It’s a hard thing to parse. The truth of the matter is that when someone with an IQ of 70 exercises her right to choose to have a baby, she is really choosing to obligate her family members to do a lot of the heavy lifting.

Because then it wouldn’t be sjw tumblr-wank.

I think it’s okay to offend adults when children are involved. No child deserves to be treated like a learning experience for an adult who isn’t competent.

The visitation might not have been so limited if Sara could drive herself around and tell time. She also had to work around her mother’s schedule. She was dependent on other people to get her to the foster parents’ home (or whatever visitation occurred).

Sara’s father may have sexually abused her when she was 4. Given Sara’s IQ, Dana is a product of rape/iffy consent. Yeah, let’s let another little girl live in that home.