That’s great. I think normalizing paternity leave will be beneficial to all working women. When parental leave and taking off for kids appointments, etc. is not just something that makes employers worry about the commitment of female workers, I think all women are taken more seriously.

Exactly! I just want people to understand that children seems to be this special case of life goals that comes with time off unlike pretty much anything else. Often people get so locked in on the “new baby requires time away from work!!!” and ignore what a gift that time off is for a variety of reasons without really…

I think the problem is that we have this collective idea that maternity leave, or any kind of work leave, must be miserable in order to justify taking time off of work. Maternity leave isn’t a cakewalk, but it shouldn’t need to be characterized as this horrible, painful slog in order for women (and men!) to take it.…

That’s not completely true though. So the dudes that get time off also expelled a baby from their body? People that adopted also somehow managed to expel a baby from their body? No. It’s an allowance for creating a new family and dealing with that. It’s a chance to spend some time on something you find to be important…

My boss told me today I could go home early if I needed to because I was getting a little upset about my aunt. She said I cover for people so much that if I needed time for myself to take it. It was nice to hear that. Not everyone gets that support.

Absolutely. If a partner cheated once and fessed up to it soon after, I might be able to forgive the mistake and move past it, depending on the circumstances. If I found out a partner lied to me, carried on an affair, or simply let me carry on in a relationship that had changed without my knowledge, that would be it.…

Totally agree about the power issue. I like my relationship because I feel like we are equals, on the same footing. We are a team. That would be over if he cheated and didn’t tell me. I would want to know 100%.

One response: HERPES.

I’ve been on this earth for a lot longer than you and from what I’ve seen everyone would rather know. Nothing like wasting years of your life on someone who lies to you.

China is not a signatory of NAFTA.

Which signatories of NAFTA are east and west of the USA?

I was just discussing with my boyfriend how the evangelical support that Trump is getting is proof that those people are not really concerned abut electing people who believe in their god the hardest. There is no one on earth who believes Trump is a religious man. These people want racist, sexist, homophobic leaders,…

“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

How are blue collar men paying for womens free healthcare? The payroll tax hits the highest earners like KIm Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey. And that healthcare isn’t free, it is provided by employers and workers pay into it—it’s the copay that goes away, not the cost. And it applies to contraceptives not all of women’s…

It’s difficult to say “People who see their historic opportunities becoming less accessible get nervous, and their nervousness can be exploited by the unscrupulous” without coming off as elitist or bigoted. Especially since that statement only becomes useful when you define who those people are who see their…

The internet is both totally GREAT and also sometimes kinda awful, just like people and life in general.

(Pretty sure it’s the general lack of structure, boundaries, civility, decent cultural behavior to model and the general FOX/Reaver theocracy coup that’s wrecking many contemporary things, yet that’s mostly TELEVISI…

It sounds like you have a good mum.

He sounds like a complete nightmare. I hope you got through it alright.

Yeah, the references to previous behavior in court, etc. made me think there is more to the story on that end. Yet the judge is still reprehensible. Her job is to protect the children in her court, not terrorize them with stories of jail and call them crazy.