She is such a self-righteous shit-heel. When Daniel Ortberg took over Dear Prudence, it took me a long time to even think about reading the column, because all I knew it as was “that place where Emily Yoffe calls women sluts”. She’s a complete and utter Serena Joy who is so filled with fucking malice that she’ll…

That exact scenario happened to you? And your wife just up and left you and took the kids?

I’ve been going to OB-GYNs for 30 years and I’ve never been examined without a nurse present. This is not new. 

No OB/GYN is even allowed in the exam room without a nurse present.

On what planet does this happen? 

How are you going to feel when it’s women in control and they refuse to hire men “just in case” he’s a Pence?

Except that never fucking happens.

The fuck? I don’t know who Greta Thunberg is, but sailing across the Atlantic is the about the most un-snowflake like thing a person could do.  That’s right up there with alligator wrestling in my book.

“The world of tea parties and dresses and endless hours spent reading books was familiar to me, but boys? What would we do together? Would it be rough housing and fart jokes and stinky little boy feet? Would I fit in in the world of boys?”

I doubt my baby pictures will out my identity. It’s more important to share this FASHION from the 1980s.

I pick chihuahua mom.

Realizing that you can never be quiet enough...that’s always quite a moment.

This is nauseating and I cringed while reading this entire (well-written) article.

The problem is when we ascribe those parts of our kids (like one preferring cars instead of dolls) to their gender because our culture says that’s how people assigned to that gender ought to behave. If you had a daughter who made engine noises and said, well, that’s evidence there’s something about the girl…

1) There are lots of little girls like this too.

“Because you’ll clean up for them, so they have no incentive to be careful.”

I think the danger is when you emphasize and reinforce the difference too much. Or you think because a child is a boy that he can’t like things that are stereotypically feminine.

Even before I had a kid, I’m constantly surprised at how people are so eager to ascribe gendered expectations to otherwise normal behavior in babies and children.

Yikes.

I’m the mom of two young boys and I actively dislike the whole #boymom culture. My boys are not defined by their gender and I am not defined by their gender either. Yes, there are a lot of fart jokes and muddy feet, but there is also long hair and painted fingernails. Trucks riding in doll strollers. Plush dinosaurs…