As a youngest child who has hated babies ever since I stopped being one, I was terrified my parents would have another kid and I’d have to be around a baby, ever.

I was thinking the younger (but not youngest) children will be the ones saddled with these kids, as the oldest ones will already have their families to deal with.

When I was in high school, I decided my only criteria for marrying a dude would be that he take my name. I’ve since evolved to thinking anyone taking anyone else’s name is lunacy (and to digging chicks).

I’ve known a few (straight) couples who’ve done this - some create something from both their names, one just came up with a completely unrelated name that they both liked. it’s not a bad idea for couples who think having the same name is a priority.

sorry, but the more publicly feminist the man, the more I expect this kind of shit

I went to a boarding school and we had coin-operated washers. We even had to clean our own rooms (the horror)! I was actually pretty horrid at that last part and frequently got demerits because of it.

let me guess. afterwards he didn’t want to date her after all, kept the current gf, but then continued to see the student whenever he felt like something extra.

I was like, oh, of COURSE he is.

it looks like a commercial for a Skinemax special on sapphic sororities

Aside from all the other wrongness about this LW’s story - don’t people have a year to give a wedding gift? If this bridezilla just got back from her honeymoon, it’s probably not that long after the wedding. ITA with all who say that she’s hella presumtive to demand a gift anyway, but what if she “confronted” (that…

I finally started using my Instagram account a few months ago and I’m really perplexed by those fake accounts. Clearly some people pay for this crap but why on earth would anyone bother?? I’m also perplexed by the “I follow you so you’ll follow me and then unfollow you 4 days later whether you followed me or not…

There are several films that came out just before the debut of MTV that are batshit in the bestest of ways (check out 1979’s The Apple, choreographed by SYTYCD’s Nigel Lythogoe even though he’s tried to scrub it from his resume) - Xanadu is the only one that was high profile. And it is glorious!

zOMG the yellow blousy flashdance unitard under the splatterpainted leo that you could never wear on its own!!! So useless and awesome.

Exactly what I was coming to post (at least when things weren’t neon drenched)

I think there’s also a difference in generation. My mom told me when I was an adult that she had had a miscarriage, I think between her 1st and 2nd children (out of 3). She was all “this happens all the time in early pregnancy, nothing to get excited or upset about until the 1st trimester is over”. Most younger people…

I am that cynical. My immediate thought was that they made the whole thing up. I’m still not convinced otherwise.

This x eleventy billion

Man, I was so jazzed for this film when I first heard about it, but the trailer does a huge disservice. Aside from showing basically the WHOLE DAMNED FILM, I was way less enthused about seeing the movie after watching the trailer. Too many lazy writing/directing choices were evident. It looks like a Nora Ephron movie,…

Honestly, why isn’t Spanish mandatory in US schools? It’s embarrassing how routine it is for other countries to learn more than one language through fluency while we just sit back and assume everyone else will learn english. I took French as an elective, which is great, but Spanish is much more useful. Started…

Reality shows always exploit any angle they can, and rarely handle diversity well*, or with any nuance - but is there also a benefit to getting on a public platform to show that diversity is out there? I’m sure being the “token” - especially being so brazenly treated like a token - would feel like crap, though.