Now, you’ll have to go slowly with me here, I’m in a country that has up to a year’s maternity leave (2 weeks enforced, 6 months “ordinary” leave that’s the recomended, and up to another six months “additional” that’s completely optional, with your pay guaranteed for 39 weeks and the rest between you, your employer…

Oh my, that’s one culturally offensive potato.

Totally know where you’re coming from. When I break no contact with mine he goes back to doing similar, these guys get off on seeing you upset, ashamed and with no confidence. The accusations that you’re at fault for being upset is pretty par for the course for them, it’s gaslighting, so don’t ever feel that your…

Oh god, when the whole purity ring mumbo jumbo hit the news over here everyone was aghast at the promising your purity to your father until you got married, it’s a thousand sorts of fucked up, isn’t it?

I can’t help but have my eye drawn to the tampons “plus mince” in the photo...

OMG these are adorable.

Yup, loads of kids aren’t provided with them. I had to buy my own, the sort I could afford were those thick pads that were like a bag of tissue with a lump of cotton wool sliding around the middle. The chaffing was so bad I was regularly in detention for refusing to do PE as well, so free access to reasonable quality…

It was the reason given whenever we asked - “but there’s two of you” was all we’d ever get. We were the only twins in primary school (there was one other twins in secondary, but they were fraternal so they didn’t look alike and didn’t partake in school activities, so we didn’t know them well enough to compare notes)…

School plays: They’d rather leave one out than both, and wanted distinguishable children

I’ve only seen him playing cameos in films and TV, I gather he was like the UK’s Mr Motivator, a morning TV aerobics instructor.

OMG, shared PJs takes the biscuit!!

I do have the impression that larger families are better at treating twins as individuals, since several kids clumped in the same age bracket helps focus the brain on making sure a lot of kids all feel loved and included. Major props for also ensuring the temptation to Christmas bundle was prevented, just being a…

Oh yup, which seriously sucks when it’s clothing!!

Would you have sex with your brother?

Ah, presents would have seriously made me feel awkward, we never had a celebration, whilst our brother had big whole class birthdays every year.

Well aside the annoying questions, we missed out on a lot of things that our brother and peers had, with the reasoning “but there’s two of you” for everything. No birthday parties, no parts in school plays, shunned by others because they were still jealous from nursery school that we were made to wear stickers every…

As an identical twin, it annoyed me purely because they seem to be playing up to the stereotypes that are expected of twins - it wears thin after getting the 8,000th time of people asking “do you finish each other’s sentences”, “do you feel each other’s pain”, “can you read each other’s mind” and the gross “twins...…

I always love it when bigots use the word “agenda” in place of the phrase “I don’t want to understand anything about any other group than the one I am part of, so don’t know what you’re about. Hence, since I can’t explain what you’re saying properly, I’m just going to imply that you are part of some sinister…

Do these guys also kick off that Mother’s Day is sexist (well, to use their speak “sexist to men” or “reverse sexism”, they seem fond of phrases that highlight how ridiculous they are) because it’s not all about their men-ness? I’m just curious at how determined they are to erase any significant acknowledgement that…

Well thinking of relatively well know male survivors of abuse, Corey Haim didn’t get the same sort of attitudes Kesha has been exposed to - I can’t recall anyone making noises like they didn’t believe him or felt he was to blame in any way, and he’d said that Corey Feldman knew about the whole thing as it was going…