I doubt he even knows there are separate tribes.

I’m not that old but I’m obsessed with history. This has definitely happened before. Doesn’t mean we have any idea how it will turn out, though. Sometimes things have gotten better and sometimes they haven’t. Knowing that, the question becomes: what are we doing to try to make sure that things actually get better?

As the refugee of large extended family Thanksgivings in my childhood, I whole-heartedly agree with this. My husband’s family (who we always do Thanksgiving with since they’re not thousands of miles away) is small. We get together, eat some skin off the turkey, watch some football, chat, and my daughter and her only…

I once found myself playing Cards Against Humanity with several women, some cis and some trans. Suddenly it wasn’t so funny anymore.

I’m allowed to hate her because I live in Oklahoma so I know that her accent is totally fake. She doesn’t even represent real rural Oklahoma. Hers is basically the Duck Dynasty of food shows.

Same.

You might be surprised. My daughter’s best friend’s parents are typical Midwest Republicans; I just avoid talking politics with them as much as I can. But a particularly loud-mouthed liberal friend brought up the subject at my birthday party and before I could even cringe, they were talking about how much they…

I agree. I even did a huge chunk of the babysitting for my little brother when I was a teenager, and I still didn’t get it until I had my own.

I’m only sort of out, but I’m okay with wading into the ocean step by step. I would say that all of those things that felt like they happened because of your sexuality were actually because of people’s prejudices about your sexuality. That it is scary but it is worth it because you will find people who love you for…

My mostly-Scandinavian grandmother did this. We thought it was really morbid at the time, but now that I think about it (and am trying to help move another grandmother out of her house), it makes a lot of sense. She lived in that house for 50+ years so there was tons of clutter. For instance, I remember her cutting up…

Exactly. It’s really easy to say, “My understanding of X is blah blah blah. Is that your understanding too?”

This is precisely why I either leave them alone (if they’re small and not in a place where I am likely to be, like on the ceiling) or take them outside.

This is so interesting! I learned to walk like this because my family went camping in the middle of nowhere a lot, and venturing outside of the firelight inevitably meant navigating uneven ground, which could be very jolting if you walk in a modern way. I would argue with him that it probably wasn’t the hard soles but…

The interesting thing about the refuse patterns around your house is that you can sometimes tell where the inhabitants who threw that stuff away came from. Brits tended to dump everything by the back door, while Germans usually dumped it in one spot further from the house, for instance. So make a map of your house and…

There are quite a lot of us who don’t think the current system works who were abused/neglected as children too. This is actually avoiding the serious issues with the system that this series brings up: 1) why is removal of the children deemed the only option?, and 2) why does removal only seem to happen to the poor,…

I totally agree.

Except that “female” assumes you know a person’s sex. “Woman” only requires that you can decode their gender.

It doesn’t even have to be straight. Plenty of Texan blondes with strategic curls.

Burning Man already sounded like hell to me. This is a whole new aspect of hell that I never even considered.

I had a house guest once who would leave the rug soaking wet. I never understood how that could happen until this thread.