I used to refer to the whole shebang (inner and outer) as a vagina. But I had to stop because pedants here and elsewhere were always correcting people. “Actually, I think what you’re referring to is the vulva...”

My first IUD 6 years ago was WAAAAAY more expensive than its replacement last year.

That was my thought exactly. With all this abstinence-only nonsense, if birth control use is actually increasing, there must be lots of teens getting their information from the internet these days.

That’s on my Labor Day weekend Vagenda.

I read The Price of Salt (that Carol is based on) in grad school. It was v. v. good and v. v. tragic. I might have to watch this at some point.

I personally feel the same way you do, but I’m not black. And black people have been (and continue to be) discriminated against in our society, so that’s a little different than someone trying to pass as a member of the privileged race. So, I’m certainly not going to tell a black person that they shouldn’t be offended…

I got a secret subscription to Cosmo when I was 13 or 14. I mailed them actual cash. And then I always checked the mailbox before my mom during the week the Cosmo would come. Then I would lock myself in my room and read all the sex articles and especially the advice column.

In the article in the links at the bottom from last April, she was all, we’re all one race— what’s the big deal? I think she may be shifting slightly? IDK. There was really no good way for her to come away from this not looking like an asshole. But she’s clearly passionate about civil rights so I hope she does somehow…

I have gay family members and gay friends. I’m a huge advocate for anti-discrimination laws for LGBT+ people. I proudly consider myself an ally.

“I’ll show my tits when I want to,” she concluded

OK there’s next to no chance my cousin reads Jezebel: she named her daughter Kamri. Pronounced Camry.

Good call. They were divorced when I was 4. Haven’t seen him since I was 14. He was an ass. Also my mom is gay, so the whole thing would have been doomed anyway.

Lucy. ;)

Don’t forget to analyze the initials. You don’t want your kid’s teacher putting F.A.T. or S.T.D. on your child’s project.

My mom wanted to name me Tabitha, like the little girl on Bewitched (which had only been of the air a few years at the time). However, my father was a dickhead and somehow managed to fill out the paperwork without my mom. He named me after her because that was the tradition in his family—to name the girl after the…

My cousin named her kid after a car, with a yoonique spelling. Not sure if it was on accident or not.

How about Stellan? It’s Swedish. Like Stellan Skarsgard.

Jennifer and Alex! (Sorry I just like guessing.)

The bad thing is Aidan was once a pretty solid name. But then all the other -aydens came along and ruined it. My daughter goes to school with a GIRL named Brayden.

That must’ve been a tough choice. At 18 months, a kid definitely knows her name, and it must have been a bit hard on her to change it, especially with getting a new family and everything at the same time. But you have to weigh that against the harm a lifetime of carrying a stripper name would do. I think you made the…