I guess it should at least give us hope that a few Northern European countries are becoming more egalitarian. If sexism isn't spread equally, it must mean it's not really innate and unavoidable. I don't want to make out that I'm giving Northern European cultures all the credit, though. Apparently a lot of cultures…

How do we go about moving women from the "thing" to the "people" list, though? It seems like we're damned if we fight back and damned if we don't.

Exactly. I didn't. Glad we both agree on that.

I didn't comment on your gender, idiot. Instead, I suggested that you are behaving like...

Exactly. If she had said to the sixteen year old, "Look, things are bad and I need to go away for a few weeks. I need you to look after your siblings while I'm gone." That would be negligent. That would be a bad parenting decision. But to simply lie and vanish! Truly fucked up. Those kids must have been so worried…

The worst thing is that she didn't even tell them she was going. She lied about going to the shop. There's a line between negligent and full on fucked up sociopath behaviour and that, in my opinion, is where she crossed it.

Reel it in. Try having a discussion like an adult instead of a 17 year old, weight-lifting Swedish MRA neo-nazi internet troll dude bro.

My G.I. Joes were coexisted with Barbie. Nobody made a big deal over the fact that they were all a lot shorter and wearing camo every single day. Also, there were some a few Care Bears, trolls and other random figurines who occupied this fictional universe.

Pleasant Company is no longer. Mattel owns the American Girl brand now.

Off topic, but why is Barbie's makeup so dated? I can't believe they still have her doing 1980s pageant chic.

I'm already married, but I still sometimes fantasise about the kind of wedding I would plan if I wasn't ADHD and planning-averse and completely apathetic about big weddings.

Yeah, one of my kids looks just like a little version of that Australian doctor from House. Where did he come from? Because neither my husband nor I look like that.

Is there a tree under there? Or is this some avant garde conceptual thing where all the ornaments are welded together in the shape of a tree and it's like a metaphor for the hollowness of materialism?

I can't tell if you're joking about a store or Lord and Taylor Swift.

Ugh. Kitchen jokes. Gross.

You say that Czech has some pretty people, but I think what they really have is pretty women. And more realistically-speaking, they have really high standards for women. Walking around Prague, so many women are dressed to the nines, fully made up, perfect hair, obviously regular gym users. Which is fair enough. But…

Aw, those satanists do warm the cockles of my cold, frozen heart.

How is that the shop owner's fault? Her clear "no refund" policy is understandable to the well and the unknowingly-unwell alike.

What soapbox?

3 weeks.