We considered for quite some time somehow amalgamating our last names into one. They're both two syllables and a few of them actually worked pretty well. Then people got wind of it and pretty much laughed us out of the park (thanks, mom). Eventually we decided to each keep our own (but the kids are getting mine,…

Yeah. I was planning on taking my husband's last name, even reserved a gmail account under that name. I didn't even think about it. I just assumed that's what I was doing. But the more I looked at that stupid gmail account and the more I praticed a new signature, the sadder I felt. This could also be very heavily…

This makes me feel so sad. Just a couple months ago I decided to screw what everyone said and grow back my lady-forest after about a decade of clear cuts. It was like my little ode to feminism that I could keep in my pants for only me (and Mr Banana) to see. I guess since I'm not on the dating market and not in the…

Here here!

Yeah, I get ya. Mr. is the youngest of 7 and all of his other siblings have kids so I think we'll be ok on his side. My dad, however, has been all about the grandbabies since we got engaged. I haven't really confessed to anyone in my family other than one of my sisters that also doesn't want kids that I don't really…

Yeah and I feel kind of terrible about it because Mr Banana and I were all like "8 kids? Yeah that sounds good" and then we got married and I was like "NOPE! NUH-UH! NADA! If you want to push a grapefruit out your butthole go ahead but my vagina tears during sex. I don't even want to think about the tears that would…

Oh, it's impressive as all hell. I'm in total awe of it. I just like to revere it from a distance. Kind of like climbing Mount Everest: it's friggin awesome and amazing and I'm so happy that other people do it, however, the thought of doing it myself is almost enough to send me into a panic attack.

I find it really and truly funny how much I thought I wanted kids until I was actually at a point in my life where it was reasonable to start trying to have one. Then one quick look at what was going to happen to me and I pretty much have run away screaming and am currently hiding in a closet from any sperm trying to…

Okanagan. I had no clue how fast one could possibly go from swilling Lucky (oh University, how I miss you) to getting into fully heated arguments about whether "buttery" Chardonnay is oaked (spoiler: totally is). It's funny because I totally identify with the "millennials drink a lot of wine" part of the research but…

Mr Banana and I drink a lot of wine (and we're definitely millennials). We kind of slipped into it. He worked near wine country, so we went on a vacation there one summer, went wine tasting, eventually ended up moving to said wine country. The wine around here is pretty expensive but buying it straight from the winery…

I am so so so so so so so sorry that happened to you.

Sorry :( I hate to be the person running in with the horror story (I feel like I did this last week with someone talking about Paraguard and my cousin had literally just been at my house and found out she was pregnant on it. Debbie downer over here.)

I can only speak for me here, but I can't say I'm a fan, which is exceptional because I like literally every other writer here.

Is that Feminists For Life? Because as far as I'm concerned they're a pretty stand-up bunch. They don't really campaign against pro-choice legislative choices but champion social programming for women, especially single mothers. Because even us pro-choicers have to admit that a lot of women get abortions because of a…

My BFF got herpes from a long-term monogamous boyfriend that went down on her right BEFORE he got a cold sore. She is stuck with that for-freaking-ever.

A rash indeed. One might even consider his return to be "vaguely traumatic".

As a general rule, I'm totally on board with not referring to women as "moms" if we're talking about them in a context that doesn't really involve parenthood, especially if men wouldn't be referred to as fathers in the same context (i.e. that stupid "diapers and diplomacy" thing).

I was wondering that too. I noticed that Laura did all the weekend articles (and also that their quality was, correspondingly, much higher than usual). Here's hoping!

Yeah, it's kind of brutal how some people, and even some women can be pretty blind to how periods differ from woman to woman. I so often find myself thinking, "oh, how nice for you. You get some cramps but you manage to power through. Mine are so debilitating I can either lay in bed crying for two days or be drugged…

It's true. Though I kind of hope that this is just one more step towards equality. People have generally reacted pretty badly towards equality movements historically, but then after everyone freaks out for a decade or so then it gets significantly better. Especially with the internet now people can easily access…