I think being in charge of her own choice to consent or not will serve her well throughout her life. She won't be afraid to say no when she means no because her mother didn't make her become a people pleaser and do things she didn't want to do.

I come from an ethnic family, with lots of enforced touching, lots of enforced kissing of older people, lots of enforced kisses, and that's why I didn't object when my neighbor, and, on a separate occasion, his son,put their hands all over my private areas before I was even five. All because I was taught I'm supposed…

I got my first car after I graduated law school and ended up with a Nissan because I was treated similarly by a Honda dealership. I was leasing, not buying, and the sales guy straight up lied to my face about the amount of local and state taxes for leasing, telling me they were much higher than they were when I…

I am in sales, and I have male buyers trying to pull fast ones on me. All. The. Time. I put on my big girl panties and call them out on it. Immediately. It's the grade school bully thing all over again. Punching a six yr old boy worked then, and the verbal equivalent works now.

Also, can we mention WW's wedge heels? Even Xena and Gabrielle knew better.

Noteworthy tidbit gleaned from spreadsheet: "I won't have time to get showered and ready for dinner" (we were 20min early)

So, no monkey shirt, or no black kid hanger?

Now why does this premise sound SO familiar.....

Not at all. I decided I couldn't quite use it because it wasn't long enough. I loved the other story of yours that I used, though (please tell me I used another story of yours and that I'm not thinking of someone else).

I love this answer, never thought of it that way!

I know. When I was bugged about running every time my baby cried, I asked if they would have let any adult "cry it out" because they are "supposed to be sleeping through the night already"? If my husband were crying in the night for anything, I'd respond to him, and he's an adult perfectly capable of taking care of…

this breaks my heart. i just had a baby and when she cries (i know it's the hormones) there's just so much NEED there, to be picked up, loved, reassured, so much pain and so little capacity to deal with aloneness, even for short times. it's horrifying to think of so many babies and children crying like that, with no…

Fuck fired. Charge her with assault and child abuse and throw her in the slammer. (And yes, I've been a teacher and dealt with plenty of annoying kids.)

Or maybe, you know, he finds her smart and attractive and interesting and those two grown adults greatly enjoy each others' company. Anything's possible.

I would like Lupita and Cumberbatch to have children. That is all.

Wow, you don't realize how dehumanized these cheerleaders are until you see that they are named after their goddamn uniform.

I'm going to assume he is also a billionaire and looks like Robert Downey, Jr.

Honestly it is my firm belief that anyone who calls a child a princess, or refers to themself as a princess (of course assuming they aren't actually a princess), deserves a hearty slap.

Can we abolish the word 'princess' as a compliment to little girls, already? Holy shit.