Yes! I stopped conferencing 2 yrs ago, after my son wondered whether I had “abandoned” him after a 36-hour trip to Montreal. (that was the needle that broke the camel’s back- there were several other incidents related to when I was away). I explicitly told my (all-female, incidentally, but all much older than I)…

The disconnect isn’t just between academia and reality. I was just chatting on another thread about the huge gap between all the teaching and school programming an family which goes into teaching gender equality and fairness to kids, and the daily unthinking casual sexism which our kids absorb daily and repeat. Like…

It’s just too easy to prepare meat as the the main meal of the day. That’s my excuse anyway. Vegetables need prepping- a veggie-based dish takes some time and effort- not to mention extra effort- to be good. Meat-based? A stew, spag bol, a steak, beef strips fried up with noodles or some rice? Not so much.

There’s a precedent for that. If “criminals” condemned to be stoned, which happens, are able to escape the stoning, they should be allowed to escape and not re-captured.

I remember my great-grandmother mispronouncing / miscalling the names of her daughters-in-law. Today, my mother does it- but not to their faces :) Definitely a power move.

omg- I'd forgotten how black beyonce was! She is sooo much darker in this clearly more youthful pic of her.

What a very long article. I started reading this article because my son plays minecraft and also watches fan-made minecraft videos on Youtube obsessively. I thought it would be a short-ish article, and I was utterly taken aback by how much you had to say about this bloke. I didn't make it to the end.

"she's happy to share her accomplishments..."

I only realised from this photo that beth behrs has a big beak. As a person from Middle-eastern origin blessed with a disturbingly huge snozzle myself, I extend gratitude to this woman for eschewing nose surgery.

I have had a total crush on Portia de Rossi ever since I saw her in Better Off Ted (IMNHSO, a far far better show than Arrested Development), and the news about her and Ellen made me leap with joy as now I have a possible chance with her.

Woman here: i'm sorry to say that I've only used online dating sites to find men who are physically attractive to me. I can barely ever be bothered to read through those carefully-crafted profiles and the zillions of bands and movies I've never heard of. I have great and intellectually stimulating conversation with my…

Liaoning vs Cowpen? Cowpen?! What sort of name is that for a ship- a warship? I have no idea what Liaoning means, but it sounds way cooler, plus when you try pronounce it you have to open your mouth wide as if you are a yawning lion. Cowpen?!!

Really? Your undercarriage is YES PLEASE? You can't think of anybody sexier than Adam Levine?
So sorry for you.

"...and definitely not of Olay..." LOL

oops- I mean NOT telling him it's a bad word..

I didn't want to fetishize swear words, and also I thought it a tad hypocritical that adults drop f-bombs all over the place and tell kids not to, so the first few times he said fuck, I was like meh. So now he says fuck all the time. I've told him I don't care and he can say it at home- I have other things to obsess…

Oh god. I appreciate all this undeniably sound advice, and it is making me so depressed. The take away from this article is that every damn word you utter to your children has to be carefully worded and evaluated to make sure it is "descriptive" and not generic" and "judgemental"- otherwise you will scar them for…

True Love does not know age...

You know, if on top of leading a dramatically and undeservedly problem-free, idealized, and completely life with no financial issues for herself and her progeny in the foreseeable future, she were also to be "left alone", I would feel there is absolutely no justice in the world.

Argh... what's happening with the angle of the head here? And that dreadful rictus grin? MAKE IT STOP