Honestly it’s an experience people have been conditioned to “want” - if you can’t think outside the wedding industrial complex box a teeeny tiny bit... then you’ve kinda been gamed. Not that most people deserve to be taken for a ride, but if you don’t participate in the nonsense in the first place you’re less likely…

Isn’t purchasing a dress made in China from a bridal chain store the definition of “buying off the rack”...?

If Sandy Hook could be derailed and couldn’t sustain momentum for real systemic change, this case sure isn’t going anywhere :(

I work for the feds in Canada and all of our salaries (even Executives) are standardized by classification and level, anybody could look up my salary range online (just not the specifics of what exact level within that range I’m currently at). While there are definitely still gender disparities in terms of job types…

Most nursery sets (furniture) I’ve seen are various shades of stained wood or white, grey and black, she shouldn’t have issues there - and then just paint/decorate in whatever colours you like! Embrace the rainbow! My daughter’s room is yellow, my friends’ painted their daughters’ rooms orange (sounds awful but looks…

And because they’re idiots who were unable to pass a 6th grade biology class...

Sure, but unfortunately for that baby, the kinds of people that throw “gender reveal” parties (first: YOU’RE REVEALING THE *SEX*, NOT THE FUCKING GENDER YOU FUCKING MORONS), are the kinds of people that are going to try and hardwire cis-heteronormative sex/gender bullshit into their kids anyway... :/

My silver and black thug cat, who looked a lot like mummy cat above, was killed Saturday night... Your boos are adorable but I don’t think I’ll be ready for another for a long time - my guy was my first cat (I have a dog as well and my childhood pets were dogs), and he was seriously one in a million, so affectionate…

Definitely. I was at a big festival in Denmark when I was 27 and was there with a big mixed group, so I never felt as though I was in any danger - but I definitely saw some extreme drunken/drug-fuelled antics that could have led to stupid or even illegal behaviours... You’re basically camping in a field/forest with…

Mine too, and otherwise she doesn’t go near poop beyond a quick sniff - I obviously don’t encourage it and pull her away, but figure it’s basically fermented grass, there are worse things she could be getting into...

I actually shouldn’t complain much, I haven’t experienced a second of nausea with either pregnancy, but I do hate the tireds!

It was boring, but by the time I started pre-natal I was well into my 5th month of utter exhaustion (it turned out my Graves-diseased hyper-thyroid went hypo during my pregnancy and I never realized that my energy slow down was due to that until near the end, yeesh). This time around everything is in much better…

I played setter in mixed competitive volleyball til I was about 4-12 months along the first time... and then my hips broke :) This time I’m planning to keep biking as long as possible, but I can feel myself getting slower and slower and I’m only at 12 weeks. This is going to be a loooong summer...

I dunno, I`ve read up on Bengals before because I was curious about my cat, he fits a lot of the description of a Bengal, including his personality (nutso, chatty, loooooves his family and his dog, haaaates other cats), size and markings (black and silver stripes and swirls and mix of dark spots on a snow white…

WHAT? (googling)

That reminds me of a storyline in one of Sherri Tepper’s books, where an inbred FLDS-like community was coming to its inevitable genetic end... pretty horrifying, and that was fiction, ugh.

Lol - I’m a policy wonk, it’s built into our DNA to be that person :)

I was a kid for Tootsie, that’s the one I really remember, but I’ve always loved her - and was ecstatic to see her on Friends as Phoebe’s mom, she was great. I don’t actually give a shit about celebrities beyond entertainment value (and knowing who to write off for assholishness), but it tickles me that she’s a cool…

I think I only ever read the Weirdstone and the sequel, the Moon of Gomrath... I just found out though that he wrote a final book (now it’s a trilogy!) in 2012, I may have to reread the whole thing now!

That’s weird, I’m a fed and have never heard it called First Nations anything - under Harper it was Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, and before that there were variations on Dept. of Indian Affairs (not trying to be pedantic though realize it’s coming across that way, but the nomentclature of this…