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Turning 30 here and had a bit of a freak out until I realized that no matter what I accomplished by now, I would find something to freak about. My friends that aren't married are freaked that they aren't married, those that want kids are all about a kid, those that have a kid want another kid, those that have kids…

yes, we've been sold a lie! a lie, i tells ya! that has to be it. here i am, 35 and married with a young child, and i have most of "what i want": a place to live, a reliable vehicle, and a family. but i've been suffering from the pressure to find a career i love, and i've never found that- even after 5 jobs…

Yep. I suspect a lot of "Leaning In" comes from this feeling that it's "rebellious" to not want it all, and that maybe we really are meant to be in the home if we can't all be CEOs. I get down on myself constantly because, at 25, I'm not in my dream career. And for months and months I was beating myself up over it,…

The clip from The View was very interesting, and as much as I like Stephen and his writing, it's hard to compete with someone like Whoopi, who knows through years of being a pop-culture icon herself, how to quickly and succinctly put something into a clever sound bite. But then, she has maybe 10 seconds to make her…

It sounds like a Shiba Confessions meme, I love it.

Destroyed? I'm sorry, did roving bands of angry feminists come through and burn Steubenville to the ground, salting the earth on the way out? Nope! Two boys were put on trial, convicted, and sentenced. Adults were told to take responsibility for their role in what happened. As for Christmas day death threats, that is…

This one was my favourite

I wanna beat these people with a pillow case full of door knobs.

Way harsh Tai.

Thanks for adding this to this completely judgmental and uninformed thread on birth control. There is also more information on the withdrawal method from Planned Parenthood. 4 out of 100 women are pregnant from this method if they always do it.

Uh, speaking as one of those women who does cycling with pull-out, or pull-out then reinsert with condom, because hormonal birth control wreaked havoc on my body, I am not doing it as a part of a "whoops" narrative. It's not fair to paint everyone with the same broad stroke. If we ever had an accident we'd go grab…

How I feel about wanting kids changes every day it seems. Sometimes I feel like I want kids within the next five years, sometimes I feel like I'll never be ready even if I wanted them, and then others I hate kids and I never want one ever.

• You have access to Plan B should you have an unwanted pregnancy

It is a design element off of the back of the first stove in our first little duplex after we got married. Its a cool 50's pinwheel type design. I have the original, my husband has the inverted. We are foodies to the core and while we lived in that house we entertained regularly, had a little wine club, wrote a…

Eh, if you look at a tattoo as a snapshot of your life when you got the tattoo its not such a bad idea, in my opinion. Even if you fall out of love with someone and break up, the tattoo is a reminder of the person you once were, that was once in love with that person. With that attitude, tattoos become a picture…

As someone who was diagnosed with HSV 2 around the same age many moons ago, I totally sympathize. It's a shitty blow and can make you fell worthless, unattractive, dirty - you name it. Plus it can hurt like hell. The "good" part is that as you get older, the less outbreaks you have (If you're lucky). I never really…

Neko Case is a freaking genius. She keeps getting better and better. And she loves animals! She's perfect, pretty much.

Yup, I was coming here to make exactly this point. Sure, I'll buy that as a white person it sucks to be called cracker, or have people assume that you're preppy, or whatever else people like to talk about when they talk about reverse racism. It's not right for people to do that and they should stop. But it's sort of…