Could be worse. My friend's own Barbie had dibs on her Ken, so when I came over, my borrowed Barbie was expected to get friendly with the girl's frightening Michael Jackson doll. She declined and politely knocked on the Dream House door to attempt a threesome with the others, which for some reason crossed the line and…

This kind of shit makes me feel so sorry for kids today. Kids deserve privacy too, and they deserve to be able to fucking play with a doll without their parents recording their conversations to listen to at their leisure. I can't even articulate how not ok that is.

I remember that I had a Midge doll who, every time I played with her, was very suicidal. I don't know why. My Midge just wanted to die. Barbie, meanwhile, murdered Skipper for fuckin' around with Ken, and then a jury of her tiny doll peers decided that bitch deserved the death penalty and so I made a guillotine out of…

ToyTalk has said parents can opt to receive daily or weekly e-mails that allow them to access the audio files of their child's conversations with Hello Barbie.

Have you ever stayed late with these people? They order pizza or some other take-out. They stand around and yap with each other. They surf the internet. They don't really produce much. Sometimes I believe they are waiting for a suitable time (dark thirty) to hit the bars.

In other words, she has empathy for people that are just like her.

This piece sure did no favors to child-free women as a group. It certainly seemed to set up that old dichotomy that the childless "career woman" is a hostile harpy to mothers and that they retaliate against mothers because they simply cannot understand until they have a child of their own. If I were childfree, I'd be…

I read this article the other day and look, I'm glad that she understands the perspective of mothers (and I should say, parents) now that she has a kid, but there is something about this that really rubs me the wrong way. I'm a childless woman and I've worked in a supervisory or co supervisory role with all types of…

She sounds like she was pretty much a dick as a manager if you DIDN'T have kids. For fuck's sake people, some of us have lives, hobbies, OTHER family members we like to spend time with. Companies have stopped giving a shit about any of us... why do they think we'll continue to sacrifice everything, and kill ourselves…

I don't have children, but I still give the side eye to people who'd prefer to stay late at work, despite the fact that everyone else can accomplish the same work during normal hours.

One of my cats melts like jello in a sack on a hot day when you hold him. When I'm alone, I dance with him because he lets me. He purrs like crazy and oozes about in my arms while the other pets look on like we're both nuts, but this cat is the perfect dance partner. He never minds if I miss the steps, and he's…

It's OK if she screws up a little now. In fact, it's good. I actually deliberately let my now 15 yo son kind of flounder in middle school because I wanted him to know that he COULD fail, before it actually mattered (high school). He is also gifted, but tends to the lazy. I think he got a B, freaked out, and it never …

I have a son with similar behaviors, and what I've concluded is that it comes down to what is important to the child. It took forever to find the one or two things that were important to him that we could tweak to get him to pay attention to other things—and it is soooo a work in progress. And by took forever, I…

I have had this "discussion" on Jezebel before, and it never turns out good. Everyone here has made up their mind that spanking = hitting = abuse. You are going to be called a horrible mother, you are not. I'm not sure why it was collectively decided that spanking is beyond the pale, when most of us were spanked as…

Ok "shaking the shit out of" any kid under 8 can cause brain damage. "Shaken baby" is a misnomer; shaking is medically damaging to all young children. You need to quit that now. If it's between that and spanking, then please spank your child. Spanking doesn't generally result in brain damage or death.

I feel like punishment options are nearly endless if you take into account physical labor. My parents had me doing my fair share of chores in the first place, and when I broke the rules I would have to pick up a chore they knew I hated or — even better — get resigned to some sort of Sisyphean errand. Examples: "Weed…

There is no performance if there is no audience

My gramma's smoke alarm going off meant grandad cooked for the rest of the weekend, YAY salisbury steak! Rabbit in mustard! Potatos O'Brien cooked in bacon grease! Colcannon! (If you haven't guessed by now, my grandmother...would rather have been in the basement with her cigarettes and whiskey.)

I don't see why the sarcastic "tell us why the term's reputation is cloudy" was tagged on. My impression of his comments was that he meant the word "feminism" was too frequently misused by jerkwad MRAs.

My mother always told us burnt toast was good for the complexion. Of course, the smoke alarm going off signals dinner is ready. (True story.)