No, I get it, I’m responding more I think to the comment you were responding to now that I look back. One of my central gripes with humanity currently is like a particular kind of performative wokeness that seems to believe that anything that is in any way associated with or may contribute to a corporation’s success…

Your criticism is making you feel good for all the wrong reasons.

Okay but you’re also shitting on this thing that has obviously brought these girls a lot of joy because there is an element of it that you don’t like. And shitting on everyone else who is celebrating it. And writing off all the other good that this experience does for them because, again, you don’t like that Kelloggs…

I get the apprehension over the cookie sales and am annoyed that the coverage of this only occurred because of the sale. Because I am really disturbed by the idea only monetary fixes have value, that there’s no value in all of the other community-building and self-esteem and relationships and practical skills that…

I heard about this troop a year ago when it was founded and thought it was an incredible thing and still do. To give homeless girls a sense of community, a shared space, safe adults whose opinions of them are not based on their academic abilities, and - yes - the opportunity to do things that other girls get to do,…

ITA. And these moments with their fellow troupe members along with the overwhelming support of their community in this instance may change these girls’ perception of the world around them and their ability to thrive in it. A simple donation doesn’t do that. I can’t with this cynicism.

The girls asked to do this. How about focusing on giving these girls a chance to be kids. They’re becoming a community, they’re making friendships that may last a lifetime and they’re Doing something they feel proud about. I agree that there are some issues with the way the transfer of money is structured, but this is…

I don’t know. They said that this was something that the girls were actively asking to do. And if you read the quote from one of the girls it seems like a lot of the value of the program comes from being able to do “normal” things, like have a cookie sale.

How about the story of them making money towards a kick ass group they belong to that teaches them everything from life skills to business skills to STEM skills that can maybe help them get a leg up in this world.

My mom is a teacher. She does not spend three months on lesson plans (maybe at the beginning teachers have to do that, but she’s going on 40 years in). She doesn’t do diddly to do with teaching during time off.

Teachers are not babysitters. Teachers are not babysitters. Teachers are not babysitters.

I was going to say, this film seems to be about how you think you’re going to be when facing a Big Parenting Challenge Vs. the actual panicked meltdown that’s always only one bad day away.

Mine were Black Russians and White Russians.

I loved having my mom at home... until middle school. She was going through mild depression and early menopause. I was going through my tween stage. It was a recipe for disaster. The yelling and the fighting were constant. She’d take something simple and turn it into a full blown screaming session at me. She…

Very close. I’m a bit younger than Sally would be - so my parents were using the cocktails to wash down Quaaludes for that after-work buzz.

You haven’t lived until your daughter and her boyfriend come into the living room and announce “the condom broke, and we need to get some Plan B right away”.

You youngsters have no idea what it is like to support your kids as they turn into teenagers —in a way that stays actively supportive and sex positive. It is all well and good to imagine how awesome you will be, right up until that moment when once your little asexual muffins turn into actual sexual being. Art/pop…

This! People are trashing this without seeing it, but its like how the article portrays almost to a T: this is a teen sex comedy where the joke is not the teens and their sexuality. The joke is on the parents who refuse to let part of their life be in the past and are trying to take it out on their kids.

Saw this Saturday (thanks moviepass!) and we were surprised how much we liked it. It’s a much kinder film than any of the trailers show, which just depict it as an Apatow teen comedy. Beyond Mann and Cena’s characters, the rest of the characters are pretty progressive and sex-positive. And the gross-out moments were…

She stayed with him because she’s a greedy fucking monster. Let’s not pretend that the women who married into this disgusting family are victims. They haven’t always only known what we all know - they’ve always known MORE.