Slate had a really shitty article on this that basically boiled down to “Very nice Mila but not everyone can afford to do this, so why should we care that you did?”

I can’t look it up right now, but a few years ago she was doing press junkets (or whatever they’re called) for that movie she did with Justin Timberlake, and they were in Russia and some journalist started trying to slam Justin and Mila just let the journalist have. It. In Russian. Because she was born in the Ukraine…

Good for her.

Yeah, generally this is not the best-written Jez post. The last line about how Mila’s probably going to exhaust herself also seems kind of off.

“An admirable task, but one that will probably exhaust her sooner rather than later.”

I was talking to my mother this morning - she’s 70 and never worked in a large corporate setting. I work at a large bank in a technology area and my team that started off 50-50 men/women is now 1 woman (me) and 6 men. The change was due to two women leaving and their replacements being men plus additional hires -…

“It’s what we are conditioned to believe — that if we speak up, our livelihoods will be threatened; that standing our ground will lead to our demise,” she writes. “We don’t want to be kicked out of the sand box for being a “bitch.” So we compromise our integrity for the sake of maintaining status quo and hope that…

I have some very well-behaved dogs.

Exactly. And that means it just. does. not stop. Not after school. Not during summer vacation. The humiliating conversations about you continue online.

Well, “never, ever been more difficult than it is right now” might be somewhat relative, what with the plague, child labor, wars, famine and such faced by teens of days gone by.

I know I’m going to sound like Methuselah, but - I only wish my parent had ever taken my side instead of the authority figure.

I think it’s 2 and 3. It’s like crime, specifically kidnapping. Child abductions have been going down for years and there are a million things as a parent you should worry about more. But because we hear so much more about the few cases that do happen, you get paranoia.

As a teacher, I’ll say it’s the second two. Also, we’ve got very few options to deal with this in schools. Administration bows to parents, and almost every parent I’ve dealt with in 13 years in Alternative is convinced the world is plotting against their little angel.

Using gay slurs, saying mean things about classmates and inappropriate things about girls? Technology may have changed the platform but it’s safe to say that this generation didn’t invent any of that.

Bet you wish you could go back, especially after seeing this:

God I LIVED for this shit. I had one of those folders that had the clear cover on the outside where you could put pictures. The whole thing was of leo from Romeo and Juliet. Then in my junior year I introduced the titanic pictures. Ahhh twas a simpler time.

Same here, except I’m married. Every now and then someone I just met will ask if I have kids, but I must say “no” with a certain tone, because only a couple have pressed any further. Most people drop it.

My reasons for remaining childless are deeply personal, and I feel at a loss when people ask me why. In some respects, it was my choice, but it was a choice partly influenced by circumstances beyond my control. I’m not, you know, 100% comfortable with my decision, so being asked by strangers is awkward. I wouldn’t ask…

Yeah, I’ve kind of gotten used to the fact that whenever a friend has kids that I’ll see less of her. Not because she doesn’t socialize anymore, but because she will mostly socialize with other people who have kids. I mean, I understand the reasons why, but it still makes me kind of sad.

Somehow I seriously fucking doubt it..