Ha, no, or if we are the link is more distant and I’m not sure of it exactly - just Austrian aristocrats, and I don’t think any of the cousins there even use the titles anymore.

Or a withering frown fraught with disappointment that just curdles your innards and turns you to very well-behaved mush... I am NOT a respecter of titles of any sort (political, socio-economic, starlet, whatever), but I’d still offer up a “your majesty” for *The Queen*, that lady has lived through some shit and come…

I totally thought it wouldn’t be capitalized, that seems really excessive. And that’s hilarious that she still has ladies-in-waiting. One of my great-aunts was a lady-in-waiting for Kaiserin Zita back in the day, but that was still, what, nearly 90 years ago?? Ladies-in-waiting are so last century...

ha, not The Queen (she’s not Il Duce!), but I think properly Queen is capitalized as a title/modifier of a noun, like “Mr.” Johnson, “President” Obama, etc.

We’re basically in agreement then :)

Sex is awesome and all, but I would put sleeping way above it on the list of things I need to function

Again, like co-sleeping, it’s something that has been going on forever and still happens in many places - I’m not comfortable with it, but my family has the physical space for it not to be an issue. I don’t think it’s automatically a bad or gross thing though /shrug.

Meh, it’s really not that bad, especially during the 6-8 week period you can’t have sex anyway. My partner and I switched out between our room and the guest room for the first 3 months. My daughter was barely 6 lbs when she was born (so too small for me to be comfortable feeding her in any position but sitting) and…

Yeah, I can tolerate the snuggling and wiggling and tapping and poking for about an hour and then the 3 year old gets hauled off to her own bed again.

All over the world and throughout history this is a thing that happens/has happened/will continue to happen, sometimes for convenience, sometimes out of necessity, and sometimes even just ‘cause it’s nice to sleep with your kid every now and then (which for me usually lasts about an hour when she climbs into bed at 3…

There’s a really sad story in the news right now about a dad (a veteran in Nova Scotia) who had PTSD and who just killed himself and his family, including his mother. Even with treatment, which he had been getting, it can’t always be helped. We need to get better as a whole society at working on these issues, we can’t…

Definitely self-awareness and empathy. I think both can be both inherent and/or learned (hence why so many assholes have a change of heart when suddenly it’s one of *their* loved ones who is sick/gay/injured/oppressed/whatever - far from ideal but better than nothing). I think both are well-represented by that little…

But chances are you were introduced to alternative approaches, you had alternate caregivers who balanced out your shitty mother (a dad, a grandparent, a friend’s parent, something), you were educated, you were not as disenfranchised, etc. etc. You learned enough to know that your mother was not a good parent and to…

But that requires education about parenting, if you only ever experience one method, and have no or inconsistent exposure to alternative approaches, or anyone to just tell you that that isn’t good parenting... you won’t know it instinctively. Parenting is not an instinct among primates, including humans, it’s a purely…

My sister did the exact same with her daughter, who is biracial- my niece could literally climb my sister without any help, and if my sister tried to set her down or let go of her she’d end up crouching over with a toddler glued to her that she couldn’t dislodge. I swear that kid had suction cups all up and down her…

I hope you’re being sarcastic...?? Cause otherwise nope, not without a lot of teaching/talk about consent and relationships and *reality* to balance out the actual fantasy land that porn inhabits.

If you do it all in more moderation than when you’re not pregnant, both you and your baby will turn out just fine. I ate everything and even had an occasional glass of beer (and a glass of champagne, in public at a restaurant no less, on my birthday when I was 8-1/2 months pregnant - nobody batted a fucking eye). If…

I work in a health department where we’re studying this issue, I agree with everything you’ve been saying, but please note that your vape residue does contain harmful substances, it definitely smells better than cigarettes but you still shouldn’t vape in enclosed spaces around non-smokers, particularly kids!

There is scientific evidence to confirm that vaping is harmful. However there is also strong scientific consensus that it’s not nearly as harmful as cigarettes.

I work in the field... the science isn’t conclusive on the harms of vaping, but there’s strong consensus that it’s miles better than smoking cigarettes...