Probably the opposite of my parents: I was told for the entirety of my childhood that all dudes wanted was sex and anything I did was going to turn them on (so cover that shit up) and were the total opposite of girls (etc) and all I could think was, “but like... all *I want is sex...”

See this is why I hope my violent days are behind me when I have kids because I would have crossbowed folks in the knees over that shit. SHE’S 5 ASSHOLES STEP THE FUCK OFF.

Always let her know she is more than an object. My dad doesn't alway tell us we are pretty unless we make an effort. He goes out of his way to tell us how smart we are though. Every chance he has. He says he would rather have smart daughters rather than pretty ones.

I'm mom to a 10-yr old boy and I figure the best thing I can do to combat this struggle is raise him right! It is my greatest concern for him as he approaches puberty. I worry more about this than almost anything else about parenting right now.

Yes, I was 16 when this happened and I developed a major attitude toward men as a result. Some old ass man at a water park wanted to take pictures of me and my friends in out bathing suits. He said he was a “modeling scout.” (sure). We said “no thanks” and he kept hounding us about how he was the “real deal.” I was so…

I don’t remember when boys started checking me out, but I remember grown ass men being creepy as hell. I was about 12 years old walking home from my mother’s job (less than 1/2 a mile from our apartment) when a guy in a car pulled up beside me and made lewd comments about how pretty I was. He kept gesturing for me to…

i feel you.

To me there is a HUGE difference between attention from boys of the same age and from adult men. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t get attention from boys. Sometimes it was awkward (being pelted by rocks) sometimes it was sweet (like the boy who kissed my hand in the kickball line in 1st grade and proposed. He…

Italy is disgusting like that. Italian men know no shame.

I’m either hideous or oblivious, because I have no idea.

I mostly ignored boys in school, totally uninterested. But thinking back, when I first started wearing real bras in 5th grade, boys used to make a game of snapping my bra straps.

I’m from the Northeast and have never heard that. Ice cream is scooped.

you mean hand-scooped?!

To be fair, I have no idea what ‘hand dipped’ means in relation to a shake - whenever I’ve seen a shake made or have made them myself, all the stuff is put into a blender, blended, and then poured into a cup. Nothing that I could conecivably call hand dipped involved. That said, he phrased the question pretty poorly...

What is a hand dipped shake though

Looking just like Kourtney right now. Except that I'm pumping while wearing grey Old Navy yoga pants. While watching Game of Thrones.

JEZEBEL NOTICED MY PETITION.

Do you mean if I was the leader of the free world and had sex with a practically underage intern, betraying both my role as a wife to my husband and mother to my child, and the prurient details were being splashed in loving detail across the world media, and I’d jeopardized everything that my husband and I had worked…

To be a fly on the wall if and when she did, tho.

I’m sorry, is this supposed to make me like her less? I know violence is bad in most contexts, but honestly, I would have thrown a lot more than a lamp.