A women just left my work early and said she had ‘travel baseball tryouts.’ you don’t. your kid does. these parents don’t have separate lives of their own. it’s just their child’s life. when i grew up 80s/90s, my parents had their own hobbies as well as taking care of us. this is all self-inflicted.

In my never humble opinion, the middle class, of which I am one by profession, but because I don’t do wealth I am vastly NOT by lifestyle, are very concerned with Getting Ahead. Very competitive. A lot of Fomo. Much anxiety. A modicum of guilt. A touch of keeping u with the Joneses. and it doesn’t do the kids any…

It’s like $40 a year for a family where I live and they have free parking and a water play area. Cheaper than the Y. IDK, I don’t see the zoo as a crazy extravagance.

You can just dismiss it. Don’t justify anything and giggle at the clone moms. Its so much more fun.

Added to which, constantly entertained children make for fucking boring adults.

A zoo membership isn’t crazy. It’s just a pass to the zoo.

May I offer my “head up my ass” opinion as to why?

Yes. It’s why the older you are, the more likely you are to have twins.

RIGHT? But when I worked retail and said “Happy Holidays” as a general, I’ll wish you a happy season, I had so many hick ass people stop to hatefully wish me a “Merry CHRISTmas.” These fuckers need to buy a calendar and check their holiday privilege.

Remember kids: Black Lives Matter is a bunch of whiners who are looking for reasons to be offended. The real oppression is a lack of Christmas iconography on your coffee cups.

Why not both?

I starred this though the more rational response (imho) is not that everyone rally around the persons so-involved (though that would be nice, doubtlessly) but that the system itself change so that, in this country, people do not fear falling through the cracks. We have no safety net at all. None. And it is shocking.

From Wolfe’s letter:

There is no such thing as a gotcha moment. Either your answer is sufficient or it’s bullshit; just because you happen to hold a shitty opinion doesn’t mean you get to voice it in a vacuum or not answer questions about it.

Memo to the dismissed waterfowl: Equating civil rights activism with ‘having a childish temper tantrum’ meets the CDC diagnostic criteria for Racist: Terminal. My condolences.

“Ah, they’re just looking for a gotcha moment, so let me LITERALLY blame black students for structural racism. That’ll give them what they want and keep the heat off”

Assuming arguendo, what you’re saying is that this isn’t racism, just classism.

Yeah I read the headline, saw the photo, and was horrified. Then I clicked the link and was relieved.

Oh thank goodness—I thought the portrait was the header image, and I was like noooooo.