As someone with family members who are sticklers about this, I gotta say I don’t think the issue is that LW doesn’t want to write thank you notes - it’s that her mom is pressing this cycle of gifts-from-strangers and demanding immediate responses. Five minutes might not seem like a lot, but it can be a lot to suddenly…

The obvious solution for LW2 is to firmly but gently tell her mother that she needs to dampen the gift parade from her friends (if that’s what she wants), and that LW isn’t responding to further prompts re: thank you notes, she’ll do it on her own time and thank yous might even happen over email (the horror!). (If the…

The Exorcist scared the hell out of me because I was way too young and raised Catholic. Now I watch it for moody background comfort food. The book has a few legitimately gut-churning moments, though.

At this point I don’t think anyone is trying to shame Barbra for controlling how she’s shot - it’s more like, let’s once again all circle up to give the woman respect for OWNING a room.

I am not sure why you’re projecting this narrative onto Miley.

I like GGG but was pulling for Canelo too. If I squinted hard enough at the fight I could imagine being a person who scored it 114-114. Therefore I can imagine it coming to a majority draw. I guess. Again, squinting at it and assuming a judge or two got up to buy popcorn instead of paying attention in the middle…

Kate Hudson is also subject to the same scrutiny (probably even magnified, bc she’s famous and therefore garners multitudes of shit opinions, as in this case) as other moms who’ve had C-sections. The Twitter hot-take assholes are completely overlooking the possibility that she might have been called lazy before over…

As a Baltimore Catholic by birth and raising, I’d like to formally disavow the cash bar on behalf of my clan. We might be trashy assholes in purple camouflage, but that’s just not done.

That might be true for you, but it’s not true for everyone. For a lot of cultures, weddings are just as much about families. The idea that it’s ONLY about the bride and groom is not actually universal.

I honestly don’t understand why this is still newsworthy. He’s not wrong from either a practical or scientific perspective (seriously, there’s research on this) that repeatedly discussing the rumor, even to refute it, will make it worse and lead more people to associate him with the story. He’s already said it’s not…

When I was an 11 year old girl, I was a ninja for Halloween. I think ninjas are cooler in general, gender aside.

I just read a summary of it and my eyes have melted out of my face.

Best interests of the kid matter first and foremost. LW cannot cut him out of their lives. It’s not really about what anyone “deserves” so much as what you have to do practically to maintain both boundaries and a coparenting relationship. I completely agree that LW needs to boot him from her house, but it is…

Well, it’s just like Jesus said - “I was a stranger and you took me in, but only after I asked nicely and in front of a national audience.”

There’s a decent amount of evidence that traits we often gender, like competitiveness and risk-taking, aren’t as an inherent as they’re assumed to be. Girls educated in single-sex environments are as willing to be “risky” as boys (Booth & Nolen 2012), and anthropological comparisons of matriarchal vs. patriarchal…

Conor, and combat sports in general, are actually kind of a great place to point to here - we actually DON’T demand that men win or lose gracefully, and in some cases celebrate them for being assholes. Joe Riggs and Nick Diaz got into a fight AT THE HOSPITAL DIRECTLY AFTER THEIR FIGHT WAS OVER and it’s talked about in…

This is not relevant to the feminist parts (which I agree, hold up), but it still LOOKS good, too, which is remarkable given how poorly then-groundbreaking digital effects have aged in other cases.

I’m Irish-American(-Catholic) and have genuinely no idea whether this is an Irish-American thing or something that culturally unites all of us across the diaspora and religious contexts. I have the vague sense that it may be genetic, like many other survival mechanisms.

Bless your heart, thinking that a whisper and good intentions will protect you from Other Aunt Kathy.

My thesis is that every family has at least ONE....