Smoke and a pancake?

Why are we checking out her package again?

@Lizawithazee: Yeah, I can't do the messy house. It tends to screw with my add and leaks into all other aspects of my life in a negative manner. I wish it were different for me, but it isn't.

@PantyWaist: Because for years, even as an adult, she still looked like herself. Every time I see her she looks more and more like Skeletor. I barely recognized her on Grey's Anatomy a few years ago.

@Charlotte Corday, Miss Stabby Stabby 1793: Yeah, I couldn't do your job. I *hate* traveling for work. It is more stressful to me than anything else I do.

@CorporateTool: Yeah, I have a friend who works 16 hour days, 7 days a week for a few months at a time. He actually has to have a personal assistant to keep his homes livable. Otherwise he just wouldn't have time to do laundry, grocery shop, clean... He already seems to go without eating for a few days at a time.

@nex0s: Yeah, I have that same reaction. Why does she keep getting skinnier? =(

@bria: Daycare is basically a fact of life for many people. I wasn't begrudging it at all. In fact, I went to daycare myself. I see nothing wrong with it as long as the parents make sure to socialize with their children and find out what is going on in their lives.

@Charlotte Corday, Miss Stabby Stabby 1793: And I certainly applaud you for taking that stance. Not enough people enforce their personal boundaries in relationships, and if that is one of yours by all means stick to it.

@fuckermost: They were not badmouthing a man's ability to be a good father, or a single father. They were expressing discontent on how they are treated unfairly, paid less, and discriminated against because in general patriarchial society expects them to sacrifice more than their male counterparts to be a "good"…

@Charlotte Corday, Miss Stabby Stabby 1793: I think that guys in your field would have to deal with that crap as much if women would state outright their expectations surrounding such an occurance. If the men go elsewhere, isn't it really their loss?

@fuckermost: Uhm, please take your trolling elsewhere.

@CorporateTool: I wouldn't consider that a successful father.

@marin79: There are basically some jobs in which you have to work as dictated or else. You can't actually say to your next potential employer, "I left because they were working me too hard."

@Charlotte Corday, Miss Stabby Stabby 1793: Well, really that's something to work out between you and your mate. If you're a single mother in your position, you're basically screwed.

@BadenBaden, who was attempting to phase out her name but ha...: Unfortunately certain professions have a basic reality about the work. Demanding that the practices be more realistic merely increases the chance of your job being outsourced to someplace cheaper.

@Xavoc: Of course, that's just me and the industry I work in. I have no issues about whether or not I make more than my SO. What I care about is that at the end of the day we get some time together to curl up on the couch and unwind.

Hrm, the interesting corollary to many of the views posted here is that as a male you're not expected to have a personal/social life. You're expected to work when they tell you to. At least that's how it goes in the industry that I work in.

@braak: I thought it was caused by listening to a certain Def Leppard album...

@exelizabeth: I think it's more like 52% of the population actually.