It is the same thing if you are talking about a person who doesn’t identify as either gender. It is the natural extension of that grammatical rule.

If you can’t afford an open bar, you can’t afford the wedding you are planning. This should be law.

Until a kid is, like, 2, I’m ok with stopping everything for sleep. They’re horrible monsters without sleep and it can start a terrible avalanche of doom once you move from tired to overtired to several days of overtired. That can ruin a thing. From 2-3 I think you should make an effort for naps, but they can miss…

I hate when they are weird about sex. When I had my first pap, at 18 because the doctor sent a thing saying I should get it, the doctor acted so put out when I told her I was not sexually active. Like I was either lying or wasting her time (probably both). She was super rough with me, too, and I’m sure that it was…

A colpo is rough. I had to do that, too. I feel for you. I think I was supposed to go in every six months until I had a normal pap and then every year. But I’m supposed to get tested every year, period, forever, so maybe the strain I had is cancer causing?

I find it almost impossible to go to the doctor multiple times, several months apart. Babies and toddlers need two doses of the flu shot the first time. Three years in a row I managed to get them the first shot and not the second, because I have ADD and I just couldn’t get that second one scheduled. Now the…

It’s even more guilt-inducing than that. The one with the young woman says that she has cervical cancer, caused by HPV. Surely her parents would have gotten her a shot that could have prevented cancer if they knew about it, right mom?

UGH. Her best friend’s mom? That sucks, because clearly that lady holds some sway with your daughter. I can’t stand the “conspiracy against Christians” crap. No one is forcing you to have sex once you get the vaccine. How is it possible for one group, with so much privilege (I’m assuming this woman is white, maybe I’m…

I never even tried to lynch a large child, or a teen, or an adult. I am far from perfect and was a pretty dumb teen. I can confidently say lynching was never even considered as a thing to try.

YES. Get a good attorney and take their advice wrt handling finances, etc.

No, it’s not. “Retarded” is commonly considered a pretty insulting term. It literally means “slowed” and is not an accurate reflection of the special needs that neuro-atypical and other children with disabilities have.

Well said. I would have said the same thing less clearly in about 2,000 more words.

I read this headline and thought “oh, shit. I’m even dumber than I thought. I thought Wakanda was a fictional place.”

I love that so much. She thought he was discriminating or whatever just because of someone’s [her] name.

I didn’t realize you were so widely reviled. I’ve always enjoyed your commentary. Though, to be honest, because you are smart and articulate, I did assume you were a woman. Jez is one of the few places I’m ungreyed, so I generally read a lot of the comments. Not sure how I missed this fact about you.

That’s a great article. Thank you

This is what I was trying to say. You said it better.

I’d actually be fine with the sets if they weren’t explicitly marketed to girls. I’m glad your son likes them, and I think it’s awesome that you’re cool with it. But a lot of parents, sadly, wouldn’t even let a boy look at them because the box is so feminine. And I think marketing Lego vs Lego for Girls sets up that…

I love this, but I really dislike the Lego Friends line. Aside from the fact that there should NOT be “girl” lego (which implies that all other lego are for boys), it upsets me greatly that the Lego friends don’t look like lego people.

Both of my houses have been the highest in the neighborhood. Not necessarily on a hill, but in relation to the neighbors, much higher. Completely subconscious. Our first house had two 100 year floods in the first two years we lived there. While our neighbors’ basements were full of water, we got some a few inches one…