I don't see how that would work, though. My friend had wildy overprotective parents and she actually had a secret Facebook account that she used (set up with a fake name) and another account known to her parents.

Yes - but people lie to get around it. We have a similar problem; 10 year old wants her own email address - we talk about it and set up guidelines together. But then gmail won't allow her to get an account because of her age. She wants us to lie so she can get one " 'cause everybody else does". So, do we lie to…

Just have a rule about them having to be friends with you so you can see what's going on. I know an nine-year-old with an instagram account, she posts dumb pictures with somewhat unintelligible captions and has a tiny friend list that includes both of her parents. I'm not sure how she even knows that instagram is a thi…

He definitely wears bronzer, the state color of NJ.

Good detective work there, DVQ.

can we get a cookie interview on jez?? MAKE IT HAPPEN PLEASE.

Hah! The communist thing is really funny, school districts are so strange and conservative.

She probably also thinks that goddamned dress is White and Gold.

I had a weird pre-hiring physical for my first (unionized, public district in California) full-term teaching job that included a surprise drug test, so they do exist.

I've always wondered about drug tests for teachers! I've never heard of it happening, I'd imagine unions would be like "NO WAY" but there's such a weird purity culture in teaching/teacher training (elementary ed programs in particular) that I was warned not to even have photos of me near a glass of wine at dinner on…

Totally. My experience in schools/teaching is just that it tends to attract people who are super, super conservative and people who are super, super progressive who got into the same career for vastly different reasons. This leads to a lot of conflict. Sometimes being "well-liked", especially by students, is seen as a…

Lots of information missing, but I'm thinking:

I dunno... maybe she just shouldn't have swallowed that IUD in the first place.

I can't believe Lucious couldn't see that coming. Don't tell the boy that music is his truth and then be surprised when he comes out in song.

I am confused about the flashback scene where Jamal wears his mom's (?) clothes. That would suggest that Jamal identified as a girl and being gay is not the same as being transgenered.*

I have Raynaud's, too. My cutoff temp, though, is about 65! It sucks. When my feet or hands get cold, which is often even when I'm indoors where there is "heat", they won't go back to being normal and not being painful without an external source of heat. So, lots of hot baths and holding onto hot mugs of tea for me in…

He looks like the Cheetos cat.

If Mimi-Rose has good health insurance (which, if she's less than 26, she could still be on her parent's plan), her abortion could have been super cheap. An abortion would cost me $20.

I'm just hoping that Arquette misspoke, and was talking about having gay men and men of color help support women (including not just straight white cis women, but also queer women and WoC) in the ongoing struggle for gender equality. Because if we're talking about the gender pay gap, it's WoC who are affected by it…

What about the mermens? This is mersandry.