Right, Rey is like, so boring and not interesting to play as, whereas I have always found myself deeply passionate about, and highly invested in, small metal thimbles and top hats. I mean, have you heard about Thimble’s backstory???

Wow this is some bullshit. Girls are into Star Wars as much or even more than boys. This is a shame that they left off the lead character in the movie.

Insufficient interest in Rey or Monopoly?

I am eternally grateful that the liner notes I added to my playlists are gone for eternity.

and creating play lists on tapes, wait till side 2.

Cassettes tapes of the radio, interspersed with “SHUT UP, I’m taping this!” 

You young whiper snapper, we had 8 tracks.

We used to drive around with cassettes.

Nope. Not to my knowledge. However, my husband still has his olde binder of CD’s. I never owned a CD binder. He did because he is older than I am. His kids think it is odd. I’m sure our kid won’t even know what to think. But maybe someday they will be worth something? He’s always said he wants to digitize all…

*siiiiiigh* Oh man, I remember the Say Anything column in YM. It was the only magazine of that sort I got as a pre-teen/teen (I remember also getting Cricket magazine which was an awesome literary mag). Hideous secondhand embarrassment while reading those. My home life was sort of in upheaval when I was that age and…

I was a closeted teenaged gay guy who would read old copies while working in the school library just for this section. When your existence feels like it’s defined by shame and fear, these sorts of stories helped me try to put things in perspective. I distinctly remember thinking that if a girl could still sound cutesy…

Haven’t read the article yet but I remember the story from the picture there about the little kids who caught their cousin making out. Suddenly I heard Tori Amos and could smell My sisters CK One. I can still feel the inflatable arm chair sticking to my ass. Oh the anxiety I felt when my knock off drug store giga pet…

At our school, Home Ec was referred to as “Personal Family Development”. We made frozen chocolate bananas coated in graham cracker crumbs. :)

Representation matters, asshat. If you’re measuring relatability by your own basic borning-ass life then you’re doing it wrong.

Hmm. I think it’s great that they don’t want people to feel embarrassed about periods. I guess I always just read it in a “thank God this stuff happens to other people, too” kind of way and never felt like they were trying to make me feel embarrassed, though I can see how I would read it that way as an adult. But I…

As soon as I saw the headline, that was the exact story that popped in my mind—the tampon string tug.

I’m in my 30s, too, and it was called Life Skills. It was split between cooking/sewing and shop class. I know how to sew basic things because of that class (torn pocket? let me at it.) I also can make pancakes perfectly, too.

I think they’re going too far with the whole body positivity thing; no matter what, it’s embarrassing to bleed through your clothes or on a desk chair in the middle of a school day. It’s ok to be embarrassed by something natural! It doesn’t make periods wrong or shameful. Oy.

These are the People who threw a party where the theme was the African continent and this happened and was encouraged.

“People like to complicate fashion,” he adds