For me, any expression of sympathy that was heartfelt was appreciated. Even if it wasn’t exactly right. Knowing that my friends and family care about me and wanted me to know it was enough.

Yep. It sucks that support always seems to be at someone’s expense!

I feel like there IS a hate on about skinny girls right now (especially in pop music!) I have a small, skinny teen who sees an endocrinologist and she hears comments about her lack of booty and obvious anorexia and no boobs and eat a sandwich on the regular. ALL FROM OTHER GIRLS.

Yes. I live in Carnegie Hill, and I was a SAHM for 12 years. Her child was at the 92nd Street Y. So were mine. Never once heard of the wife bonus. Never. The wealthy women around me spend what they damn well please, whenever they feel like it.

We didn’t have anywhere near that much evaporation when we lived in LA. Now we have an automatic cover and we close it most of the time when we are not in the pool or using the backyard. It was mostly for safety (kids/pets), but evaporation is near zero and it keeps the water clean.

5-15 minutes!? They had a leak.

Why would it be bad advice to ask him to look at your face instead? Or to otherwise let him know you know he’s looking at your boobs? I have big boobs and I’ve been saying some version of this for most of my life. I’m polite and lighthearted about it and have spoken up before it’s ever a real issue. Hasn’t ever been a…

Your teenager takes language arts and social studies? It sounds like she’s still quite young.

Stop with that stereotypical sexist garbage about emojis and rumors. Not every teenaged girl with a smartphone behaves like this.

Mothers should blah blah blah. Fuck off.

Yeah, I’m not getting all of the indignation on this topic. She murdered someone, spent 28 years in jail, was NOT executed but rather, released. Is this such an injustice? How many years do these posters think she should have received? None, because she had a terrible childhood?

They are. I’m a terrible person who plays obvious pranks on my teens after they watch a scary movie. It’s so easy, it’s almost not worth doing.

Maybe because his image is more nice guy/everyman and not alpha dude/cool guy? I think many of those other leading men are the director’s Mary Sue fantasy.

The Times article said to go to places that charge more (I do, but the rents are higher in my neighborhood...so does that mean the $$ is going to the rent or the workers?) and to interview the technicians about their wages. No way am I doing that. It’s rude, and you’ll NEVER get a truthful answer.

Yes. My father died first and my mom is a widow. I know for sure he would have had a tough time taking care of himself had it been reversed and tbh I used to worry about that. A lot.

Agreed. I’ve always though January Jones did a great job of playing a character with a lot of inner turmoil she has to keep hidden under a veneer of perfection. Like that scene when she’s on Bobby’s field trip and he gives her sandwich away. She played it at once immature (getting in a snit with a child about a…

I interpreted it as they had the German soldiers dig so they could shoot them in the back. One skinny guy figured it out and tried to run but his pants fell down and tripped him, so he was killed and eaten, too.

You mean by exploiting their families or showing them off for political gain in some way? Then yes, I agree. If you mean a woman politician who ran on a feminist platform and then reversed her position, I’m not sure who you are talking about.

She’s been talking about issues involving women and girls since at least 1995 at the Beijing Conference of International Women’s Day when she made that famous speech about educating girls worldwide. I don’t think that this is an issue she’s just decided to pick up to see if voters like it.

Who are you talking about?