'Unfair to boys'? The reason you don't see many female names being adopted by mean is because it's 'okay' for females to show masculine traits but not the other way around. Think about that for a moment.
And of course most trans women go for feminine names. Just like most trans men take masculine names. That has little…
Geth
geth
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've only got the one tattoo, so I'm no expert. I mean, maybe there's a good reason that Lady Gaga's bare ass has to be fully exposed while the artist works on her upper back. Maybe.
I'm all FOR women doing exactly what they want, but when did society decide that picture-perfect model looks were The Right Looks and that what you were born with wasn't okay? I mean: we get all this SHIT pushed on us on an hourly basis — even if you don't read fashion magazines or tabloids, it's THERE with the…
I always felt bad for my sister growing up because I was in Boy Scouts and she was in Girl Scouts/Brownies at various times. Their activities were like the world's most boring Home Ec class, while we were rappelling, hiking, knots, rafting and learning how to safely handle and maintain axes, knives and saws. She told…
Hollywood is cranking out yet another Nicholas Sparks movie (The Best of Me, for those keeping track). And I would…
Or "How to Miraculously Keep Your Prestigious Job at One of the World's Biggest Newspapers While Completely Sucking Balls At It In a Manner Akin to a Fiery Car Crash Despite The Certain Fact That There Are Probably Hundreds of TV Critics Who Would Write Better and Fuck Up Much Less In Your Position"
Thanks Geth, am trying and will keep on keeping on, whichever way the wind blows.
@KatCallahan, @stopbeingterribleandillstopbeingmean: I just want to say how happy it makes me when this type of conversation actually goes where it's supposed to and everybody ends up understanding each other and the situation a little better. It seems like a complete fucking miracle every time.
Eh, it's not gonna kill her, and it doesn't make you shitty parents. You're human - you need a break sometimes, and I'm guessing you're not sitting her down in front of Game of Thrones or something. :)
I was a young mother. My own mother was so angry at me for it, that she did little in the way of supporting me, emotionally, mentally, or financially. Her philosophy was that I should lie in the bed that I had made for myself. When I was overwhelmed, I learned to keep that to myself, or risk hearing for the 700th time…
This is why speaking frankly about motherhood matters, and why support matters, because what any one woman cannot summon can be summoned by the village, if it exists.
All of this could have been avoided upstream if birth control had been available like aspirin, and if good sex ed were given to, and absorbed, by all. Those things being as they are (shitty), hers is a limit case for many pro-choice people, including me. She may have well delivered a stillborn (which would make her…
In a bag. In a dumpster.
I'm sorry- abortion law aside, this woman gave birth to a child, who was apparently alive but presumed by the woman to be dead, and she sought hospital treatment but LEFT THE FETUS OUTSIDE OF A RESTAURANT. You can't just do that, what the fuck? I am so pro-choice, I'm almost pro-abortion, but that's not the way you…
Glad to see you're able to see things from both sides!
Well Ari Schwartz you've outed yourself as a pessimist... again. Couldn't the question be "when should I crap myself today?" I say we get back that can do attitude.
Twitter is proof that most people shouldn't be allowed to have opinions beyond, "when should I not crap myself today?"