I thought this comment from the NYT comments was interesting:

I love my daughter to bits, but five-year-olds can be incredibly boring. There’s only so many times in a row I can take listening to her sing the same verse of a song she only knows those words to and not very accurately before I need something else to pay attention to or I’d fall asleep.

This is a very problematic topic. For example, if you have two people who both agree that they will marry but will be comfortable with some straying within some specific parameters, then hey! Go for it! I do believe that traditional marriage isn’t necessarily a one-size-fits-all thing.

Goddammit I am hate-reading the hell out of this thread right now.

I was thinking to myself what sort of deeply disturbed person “is trying to find a babysitter who I can trust” but seems so socially inhibited as to be incapable of speaking to their neighbours.

Humanism is more of an answer to theism than it is to social equity. What she said is more akin to saying, “I’m not a democrat; I’m an atheist.” That’s the problem...people assume the definition of humanism because it’s got the word human in it. And Feminism is about parity and balance, which is what she’s saying…

Because it implies that there is something inherently wrong with the word “feminist.” She and others dodge that question like it’s a bullet. That’s what wrong.

The problem is that the definition you just posted there isn’t what she meant. Humanism has zero to do with equal gender rights. Feminism promotes the nice easy balance she spoke of. She meant feminism, but she was afraid to say it.

It disappears sexism (real sexism; not “misandry”) as an axis of oppression.

Jesus Christ if people don’t know what humanism is they should stop using the word. Yes even you Meryl.

Theory:

GET THESE or THESE. They’ll take a painful red-and-white bump down to a flat pink spot overnight, and if you have something stuck to your face, you won’t pick. Also, unless you’re talking a huuuuuge zit, they’re way too big — you can cut the small ones in half and the big ones into thirds. They are MIRACULOUS.

Hey, revolutionary warrior on the internet, a whole lot of kids and innocents are going to get dead and burned in your smug masturbatory fantasy. But you go ahead and finish, because we know how much it means to you to spaff your asinine, chucklefucking, class-warring effluvia all over the place. Just don’t forget to…

No. Nowhere did I say that being a stay-at-home mother isn’t a valid choice. But it should BE a choice, it shouldn’t be EXPECTED, and it should be just as valid and normal for fathers as well. If the current batch of conservatives really had the welfare of children and families in mind, they’d be promoting social,…

Nope. Only those who seek to impose their own values, morals, and opinions on everyone else with the force of law. I’m white, I’m straight, and you can go fuck yourself. Thanks for playing, though.

By all means, keep using the term “wife,” to mean someone who takes care of all of that shit.

Serious question, how common is it for people in professional jobs to go part-time on a long-term basis? I work in engineering and I can’t fathom ever being able to do it part-time unless I was self-employed. And I don’t mean like in a cultural sense, I mean that if I was to work part-time, I don’t see how I could…

Man, I’m thrilled if I’m still wearing something after a year and it’s not fallen apart already.

Yeah if one of my interns said that to me I’d be like “UH, NO. Wanna go home for the rest of the day?” and if one of my staff said it I’d read it as a silly joke since we are tight. But if they did it on their first day I’d be like “Oh really? That’s how you’re gonna start out? In that case the answer is no find a…

Yes, not a nickname but that particular colloquialism is only ever used in instances where it goes without saying that the person will do as you ask - as in a boss says it to an employee or a mother to a son. It’s very rude to say it to someone over whom you have no authority.