Attractiveness is not objective. People rate these women “attractive” because they adhere to a heteronormative ideal of femininity. It’s not the other way around, wherein innate attractiveness somehow causes innate heterosexuality, which is what people will assume when they speed-read these scientific studies. They…

I think the difference between what your sister is doing and what people are complaining about is who it’s for. Your sister is obviously doing it for her daughter. And it works! Like you said, win/win. I’m also going to guess that your sister doesn’t plaster it all over social media with a gazillion and a half hash…

Parents are stupid. There is no way in hell a kid is eating goddamn falafel in a school lunchroom. He’s throwing that away and using the $5 he stole out of your purse to buy french fries and Little Debbie snack cakes.

Anna Merlan is my spirit animal.

Yes, far better than I’m capable of, frankly.

Not necessarily true. I worked in a discount division of the high-end department store well known for their customer service, and we all had at least one customer a day who would demand that we wait on them as if they were in the full line store with plenty of commissioned sales people. I once had to be a ‘personal…

I’m sorry for your losses and so happy you finally got what you’ve been searching for. I’m glad you wrote this, I think more people should be talking about miscarriage. I had a miscarriage in January and it was quite a mindfuck. I had no idea how many friends and relatives had had one until I started talking about it.

As an undergrad geology student, I had a prof who told us a story about visiting part of the Canadian Shield. They’re out looking at some rocks, and a tourist thinks out loud, “I wonder how old these rocks are!” My prof is like, “3 billion years old”. The tourist has this look of wonder on his face and says “Wow, how…

I didn’t need either job to understand these things. Does everyone else just not pay attention unless they’re forced to for a job?

I worked retail at the mall for 3 full years and 1 year on and off in HS and College

One college age customer shopping at my Hollister store pissed on some shorts and shirts after she was told she couldn’t take 40 items into the dressing room (limit 5 because our store had major shoplifting problem). She complained…

Depending on what you’re doing in retail, you could very well deal with a lot of people for more than “a minute or two at most,” especially if you’re doing something other than just running a register or stocking. I was at Books-A-Million for two years as a magazine specialist (code word for underpaid asst. manager)…

In retail, you don’t deal with them as long, but you deal with the mess they left behind for DAYS.

Often you end up dealing with the worst customers for hours in retail. And then they call back over and over trying to get you fired for calling the cops when cut off a 3DS display and stuff it down their pants.

People were commenting on break.com’s version of the article with the phrase “TIPS: To insure prompt service”. Butchering of the English language aside, what the hell? Like servers and waiters have control over how long it takes the kitchen to make things.

Very true. Or if I had just had some time out the day before (a significant amount, and not a trip to the grocery store being counted as time out), also different.

Honestly. The wife works from home 3 days a week and the nanny is probably there while she works at home, like my son is at daycare 5 days a week while I work outside the home. That’s not a luxury: they probably pay much less those of us with full-time daycare do. And someone having who comes in an hour or two twice a…

Taking care of an infant with a nanny and a maid may be luxurious, but it’s still not free time. This woman does have a full time job after all. And I mean, cmon, way to skip the entire central part of my argument that was both partners need to be able to ask for and grant free time in order to be good parents and…

I wouldn’t say it’s tribal exactly, but communities who believe in a village helping with kids makes me a little envious as a white American! I have some South Asian friends who live in fairly close-knit diasporic communities and they do such a good job of spreading the childcare around. It’s mostly mothers, yes, but…

I think the more we talk about how parenting is a two person job and over whelming for both parties, the more equal it becomes. There is so much pressure on women to be The Perfect Mother and not being able to say she needs a break, that good for this guy for recognizing he could do more.

Totally! I used to love newborns and snuggling with them, and now that my nephew is going on 4 and is hilarious and fun, I don’t care for them at all. They just stare at you, cry and shit. The luggage phase does not seem appealing.