Not gonna lie, I got a little teary when he said his brother encouraged him to talk to someone. Those two clearly love each other and that warms my cold, dead heart. I’m not close at all with my siblings, so I always look at such warm relationships with a combination of confusion, intrigue and envy. “Wait. You called…

I might be a bit unqualified to offer this advice outside the fact that I was a kid once. Anyway, why not take your daughter’s love of all things princess and turn it into a learning experience? Princesses were often very well educated women, and were expected to know multiple languages, and all other sorts of useful…

I don’t remember my mom being friends with the parents of any of my friends, and it didn’t even occur to me that she should be. It’s hard enough to find friends without the added pressure of aligning social circles with your child.

The race to the water fountain after gym class was always intense. I feel you, I was always one of the first to get there and then had a ‘fuck you, I’m drinking here’ attitude once I was there.

Flip side: “Everything is Free” when you are a kid in poverty is just “You Can Afford Absolutely Nothing” so I’m Team Adult Autonomy on that one.

I cried the one time I got a C. Cried like a baby.

I can’t believe Getting an A was a 14 seed. You know what kind of people read Jez? Nerds. We didn’t just love getting A’s, we LIVED FOR IT.

Vacations last way longer than mouth stuff, and wouldn’t that also include GIVING mouthstuff and receiving bad mouthstuff? I’d rather go to Cabo for a 3-day weekend.

Gary Steiner is cisgendered.

This movie sounds so interesting, I definitely want to see it... the plot sounds more like of a gothic movie than “horror” movie, don’t you think? Clouds of Sils Maria is currently available on Netflix and I’m gonna watch that this week.

The comments on a few articles about the strike on this very site were making me raaaage. “I can’t afford to strike unlike all those wealthy white women!” No one is forcing you but if think strikes have ever been about wealthy people taking off work I think you need a history refresher. They also totally ignored the…

Yes, the episodes in S6 where she comes back from being dead? Such a good representation of depression and mental illness. And her friends were such dicks to her after literally pulling her back from heaven.

I loved how Buffy dealt with depression. Those arcs rang true to me, and have stayed with me, for almost fifteen years now.

Both teachers and child care providers are two of the most underpaid professions in this country. I get really pissed when people think that teachers are just stand ins for child care providers because even child care providers deserve to be paid 2-3x what they actually make.

I can’t stand the fact that people criticize teachers for “wasting taxpayer money.” It seems like most people tend to think that teachers only work from the first bell to the last bell but they could not be more wrong. My mom has been a teacher all my life and a majority of the time she worked 10-13 hour workdays. As…

Like how men have a stranglehold in politics determining everything for women?

The way she described Ben reminds me of many women’s relationship with narcissistic men (I know that n word is thrown around a lot, but I think it’s an epidemic in this culture.) Reaaaally trying to avoid ever being with anyone who is Brilliant And Generous And Charismatic but makes me feel small. Big people should…