Apparently he and his wife play their trombones in a house made of candy. 

In my family people would bleed the family dry before going to the government for assistance. It’s one of the ways that poverty combines with bootstrap mentality to bring down entire extended families and communities.

I didn’t eat a fresh blueberry until I was 25 and working in food service. Blueberries are not found in working class homes--maybe if the family gardens but I’ve never met one of those in real life. 

I absolutely would have watched it if it was on one of the five subscription sites I already have (amazon prime, netflix, hulu, HBO, or Disney+) but I positively will not be getting another one. In fact, Disney+ and HBO will be out the door until the Mandalorian and My Brilliant Friend return. 

I’m not trying to make anyone feel bad for not wanting to be around their own family...but it’s really important for people to know that misery isn’t the only feeling to have in marriage. You don’t have to put up with that. There are also happy single people and happy married people...even married people with kids. 

Yikes. I’m so sorry...but why have you stayed for 20 years? Not all men are like that. 

Same. I didn’t know how amazing it would be to be with my partner and our daughter all day--it had never really occurred to me. Missing those hours every day now really bums me out. 

As a gen-x woman, I have absolutely seen women like this. They scare the shit out of me. 

Exactly! A) A woman should never marry a man who hasn’t lived on his own before. B) A woman should not marry a man she hasn’t lived with. C) A woman shouldn’t expect a man’s ability to take care of himself to improve after marriage.

Except that when we look at the actual time spent--women are usually correct in the estimation because men underestimate the amount of planning and work goes into running a household. Ask a man and a woman how the “magic of Christmas” happens and you get a pretty good picture of how this actually works. 

Sis? 

I have a husband who is a full grown-up—who not only can cook dinner and do laundry, pack his own bags, keep track of his own shit, but also does without prompting. When I talk to my married female coworkers, they act like he’s a unicorn. It’s so fucking depressing. He also happens to be a good father and the amount…

Well, I just realized that Olivia Munn is an actual person and not just Jennifer Lawrence with her hair dyed darker. Weird.

I’ve been rewatching Big Love so I’m really feeling that Chloe Sevigny second sister-wife look.

In my experience, women only ask for dick pics when they are showing them to their friends and laughing about them.

Let’s go back even further so we can add Dirty Dancing to the list. 

Except that the morning after pill is contraception, not an abortifacient.

I think that’s a dodge. Right-wing men who are highly invested in the patriarchy and its continuation know that this is political. They may be troglodytes but they are not stupid. By saying this isn’t “political,” Baldoni hopes to avoid blow-back and, more importantly, not be asked to do anything beyond writing an…

As someone who is sailing into the heart of middle age as I write this, I feel like I finally understand why so many old people listen to jazz/classical/world music...it’s because lyrics written by people in their teens and twenties are really, really cringe-inducing when heard from the second half of a life span.

Literally the only thing worse than “wine mom” is “holier-than-thou-sobriety mom.”