Love this idea! You could also buy a set of colorful dish towels to do this, and make the wrapping an additional part of the gift. Because otherwise I'd think the fabric would start to fray after a few wrappings/unwrappings.

I thought the exact same thing.

Her arms look oddly short/shapeless in that photo. Like the rubber arm Harry gets after having his bones removed in Chamber of Secrets...

So men's ideal woman is a Real Housewife, huh?

Your comment says everything I wanted to say but in a much more eloquent and concise manner. Hear, hear!

What about a "This post is making me reconsider our friendship" button, for when people post sexist/racist/otherwise questionable things.

Carrie Underwood should be out finding a new agent, not praying for the souls of her haters. Any rational person would have told her it was a bad idea to tackle one of the most beloved movie roles of all time — across from Vampire Beel, no less.

All these cultural messages say that the hero gets the girl. And of course, everyone is the hero of their own story!

I read that as someone reflecting on how they used to view women — the thoughts of a reformed misogynist.

Your comment prompted me to look into paid maternity leave — I guess because my state is one of the more progressive ones, I never realized how incredibly rare it is for states to require employers to provide paid family/medical leave. From Wikipedia:

I wish companies with religious beliefs could just believe that their employees will either act in the "correct" way or, I don't know, be hypothetically punished in the afterlife for their actions. But that would be too easy.

Yup. Normally I'm very against using the "slippery slope" argument, but in this case it actually is scary. If Hobby Lobby wins this case, and then in the future a company whose CEO belongs to a religion that, say, believes women shouldn't drive decides to only hire men because the jobs include travel... Is that then…

From a financial standpoint, I just cannot wrap my brain around why a for-profit company would want to discourage its workers from getting birth control. I mean, employees being on birth control generally means less paid maternity/paternity leave they have to provide.

Holy shit — put a warning on that next time. I almost screamed.

Let's nuke the funding to Planned Parenthood (and the multiple options of female birth control) and instead put that money into research for a real male birth control. How many girls do you really think are responsible enough to take the pill every day at the same time?

Yes! I adopted a cat this Spring who is somewhere around 5 or 6 years old (they weren't sure, since his previous owner left no medical records when she died) and he is the cuddliest, sweetest thing. He's also incredibly well-behaved.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST MY TEARDUCTS??

Honestly, I think it's the whole act together that makes it really disrespectful (especially the religious elements). If she had come out in that dress with a non-stereotypical hairstyle and set design, I think it would have been fine. There's a line between cultural inspiration and appropriation, and Katy crossed…

It's like his hair is so embarrassed that it's trying to escape.

We should absolutely be talking about prison reform here in the U.S., but I think the difference here is that people are being jailed in Russia for what in the United States would be considered free speech. If Pussy Riot had staged their protest in an American church, they may have been arrested for trespassing or…