When your country decides you have to have a baby, then perhaps your comment would be relevant...

As an employer . . . why should I pay for someone to have a child ? This is a parental issue and a planning issue.

I see both sides of this. If the organizers believed it to be a (mostly) child free event, then a presenter (not just an attendee) having a child there could be a disruption. Especially if the child was going to be with the parent during the presentation(s).

People organizing a party or event have a right to say who can be there. Full stop.

Look, I love babies. I like moms (some of them). But if I was invited to speak in from of hundreds of people, do a book signing, and participate in an intense professional conference, I’d arrange for child care for the day. No, you can’t bring your baby to work, sorry. That includes adjunct teaching. Advocate for…

I didn’t even think of that! And now I’m thinking how much it would suck for me if it were a custom to decorate weddings with cats and ragweed. I would die.

It’s pretty much the job of every parent to be perilously mortifying to their kids, isn’t it? Some kind of law of nature?

Nothing pleases me more than going overseas and giving an exaggerated, made-up explanation about the differences between Coke and Pepsi and how much we all care about the difference: “Pepsi is for Pizza and Coke is for Burgers and everyone in the USA knows these things, etc...nobody really ever does otherwise - it is…

This is a tradition that should not exist.

I think it’s possible to teach your kids that genitals are normal and not to be ashamed of, while also teaching them that it isn’t polite or appropriate to call your dad “Mr. Penis Man.”

I’m with you. This whole “I’m a mom now I can’t even pee alone” is getting to be a bit much. It’s like some kind of honor badge that is becoming trendy. When I have a kid, I will piss and poop alone. Just like my mom did.

Friday LOL.

Those are parents who have been fooled into thinking that if they aren’t there instantly for their child 24/7 that they’re bad parents. I tell them it’s okay to lock the door to take a shit or a quick shower, if you wanna get clean with some privacy that’s how you do it. I can’t help but think it’s a bit of an excuse…

My kid (age 6) sees me naked all the time. I don’t think it even registers with her anymore.

I’ve said this to several people who are still going after him and not gotten a satisfactory answer: Let’s say they’re right, that this is some sort of juvenile delinquent who made a fake bomb to get attention and ended up fooling people into getting to do a bunch of fun stuff. Let’s just say all that really is true-…

Sorry, this turned out super long winded but...

Feminism as it exists here and now is frequently associated with certain policy positions that someone could disagree with while still agreeing with the statement that men and women should be equal in society and currently are not.

I honestly can’t explain it. We were together for a loooong time before we got married but the minute we did, it was different. It’s weird.

I’ve decided I will punish infidelity by never ever leaving him alone. A fate worse than death.