I’ve been feeling that way for a while. I am ravenously hungry for grandchildren.

That’s how they used to do it in the basement of the Lubyanka prison. I think it was 100% effective.

Happy to see Abraham Setrakian get a proper sendoff, since he’s always been my favorite character — and equally happy to see him last this long, since the authors of the books stupidly killed him off in the second book out of three.

Why does this make it harder? You seem to be assuming that people need a label to know whether an article of clothing is OK to buy for girls. Why can’t they just look at it and decide?

What do you say to these people when they ask you that? I’m definitely not a Christian, but in your position I would be so furious I don’t what I would say or do if someone asked me an equivalent question, as an extremely proud parent of a gay son who trusted me enough to come out to me when he was 12.

Thanks. It’s astonishing to me now to think about how many years I waited — all because I was so afraid.

Congratulations! The very thought of having to be at a party — any party! — for four hours makes me feel ill, so I know how difficult something like that can be.

I’m very sorry. I know how that feels.

When I was a small child (back to at least the age of 3), I used to beg my mother on a regular basis to let me wear a dress. She put up with it until I was about 8, when I finally realized from the expression on her face that she disapproved. The memory still makes me cringe with embarrassment. It was another 30…

Why not just “Kids,” as others have suggested?

I’ve been accused of horrendous bigotry for being a trans woman who openly expressed skepticism about the legitimacy of the identities of “otherkin,” and said that I believed that their discourse hurts trans people.

Exactly. Free MAGA hats for those made homeless by the hurricane and flooding, valued at $100 per hat. 10,000 hats = $1 million.

I said nothing of the kind. All I said was that it’s not as easy as snapping your fingers and having the sheriff put him out. Of course it’s worth doing — it just takes a while.

I didn’t miss it; I saw it. And I’m not convinced that demisexuality is analogous to basic categories of sexual orientation and gender identity like being heterosexual, or not being trans.

Someone in the comments did say that — “he doesn’t deserve to be in their lives at all” — or I wouldn’t have commented in the first place! I was responding to something someone did say; you’re arguing with me about something I very much didn’t say.

I read both the pieces you linked, and am not the least bit convinced that demisexuality — although what it describes obviously exists —needs to be given a word to distinguish it from “normal” or “typical” sexuality. Because as much as you (and those pieces) insist the contrary, it very much IS “conventional” or…

I’m pretty sure you still need to get some kind of court order, don’t you?

You’re absolutely correct. But those are separate issues from the question of whether her mother has the right to exclude him unilaterally from her life. She doesn’t.

Satchels of gold!

Bethenny wasn’t pregnant, was she? This was long before she married Jason.