I’m noticing that it isn’t all that easy to teach. My little one is still in diapers, but I’m trying to teach her consent by asking if I can hug her before going ahead, & if she says “no” I respect that & back off. My husband also follows that rule, but our parents are all very silly and demand that she hug and kiss…

It sounds like you just described my own mother... I'm sorry you have to deal with a mother like that.

Oh maybe that was just my father, then. He is quite silly. He had the task of buying me my first feminine hygiene products, and he chose the largest, cheapest things he could and expected me to just know how to use them. I was stuck wearing something that could easily be mistaken for a diaper & I just had to suffer…

If you mean husbands/boyfriends, that’s because they don’t see the problem at the systemic level. They see their female partner paying through the nose for things that should be much cheaper or free & their “solution” when we dare to complain, is to say they can cover the difference if a few dollars more here or there…

I always assumed the father must have been doing something to his daughter, either abusing her himself or bringing in other paedophiles to hurt her (that would explain the foreign DNA and the way the parents worked to cover up a lot of stuff).

When a drunk driver is caught by police, they are not allowed to claim they were too drunk to recall that drunk driving is illegal. Why on earth should sexual assault be treated this way?

How is Trump even allowed to run? He has no political experience. He has shown himself to be terrible with money, not great with businesses, and a total creep of a man around females (including his own daughter).

And Abraham Lincoln had an illness of some sort, and Franklin Rosavelt had polio. Trump is a year older than Clinton. Considering life-expectancy, he is at deaths door already. Hopefully republicans are smart enough to elect the one who is more likely to survive a term in office (assuming no attempts are made to…

Does your city require residents to pay for their own sidewalks? I've lived in some bizarre Canadian cities that only require builders to put a sidewalk on one side, leaving anyone on the wrong side who maybe needs their home to be accessible (like parents with strollers, anyone with a mobility issue, wheelchair…

This is all very bad. Trump has likely raped several women (& under aged girls). Clinton has supported her rapist-husband. Americans have to decide which is the lesser of two evils. Please choose wisely, for the sake of the planet.

Sometimes they have a hook for your clothes and maybe a mirror if you are lucky.

Why oh why is this still a thing? I read the comments that poor mother received. Someone asked why wouldn’t she want to cover up and be “discreet”? How much more discreet can a nursing mother get? Some babies (like my own) will not under any circumstance, nurse under a cover. It's not like she did a song and dance, to…

Often dressing rooms don’t have anywhere to sit, because in theory you are an able-bodied individual, going in to try clothes on.

I suggest you get a doula. She can help you if doctors or nurses start trying to deviate from the birth plan, when there is no medical reason for it. And avoid reading horror stories. You need to enjoy your pregnancy as much as you can.

Yes, his occasional “blue balls” are considered more important than her constant pain.

I did just that when I was pregnant. It royally offended my in-laws, who to this day insist that I am screwing up my daughter because I don’t put her in frilly dresses or obnoxiously pink onesies (truth be told, my daughter hates dresses!). On the rare occasion that someone tells me I have a cute baby boy, I politely…

I personally think religion has no place in schools. Unless students are there to study to become a minister/priest/nun/monk, the school should be secular - that means no forcing moral codes on students that would put real victims at risk, for reporting a crime committed against them.

Yeah, he lied to get you to trust him, so he could get what he wanted out of you. What a lying sack of doggie doo doo. For your own sanity, lose his number and be oh-so fabulous without him in your life.

May I be blunt?

But Mrs. Obama is criticized for being too aggressive, is she not? It doesn’t matter if you are talking about a female politician or a politician’s wife... women are criticized for the most trivial things. While a man can stand at a podium, talking authoritatively while saying nothing of substance - and no one bats an…