I don't know if critics are saying it, but there are plenty of people who dismiss Jane Austen as old-timey chick-lit, and yet would never question the quality of male-authored classics.

If you can recommend a good Nicholas Sparks book, I can recommend a good short pier to take a long walk on. I like this Jodi. We should be friends.

My father suffers from chronic pain and sometimes needs a break from regular chairs/standing (and also his in-laws). When he shuffles off to his comfy chair in the den, I usually follow with my own bottle of wine and the mister, sometimes one of my cousins. We watch Monty Python or Peter Sellers flicks and avoid the…

Alcohol and Sadness.

Keep in mind this doesn't work if you have a sense of shame and/or care about everyone thinking you have diarrhea.

My secret weapon is an "upset stomach" in case I need to hang out in the bathroom for 20 minutes and play games on my phone.

Also, just for the record, is any of this substantiated?:

Taylor Swift dating your son is your biggest fear?

Seriously, if you're stuck with a Duggar, Jana is the one you wanna go with.

So, my parents' dearest friends are an Indian couple, and in the wife's family there was a small scandal and a BIG blowup when she, the second daughter, "got" her husband. Her husband was a Captain in the Navy and from a better family and so on. Her older sister felt extremely slighted and ill-used over the whole…

Chevy Chase pulled a Johnny Depp. "Pulling a Johnny Depp" now means making a drunken ass of yourself during an awards show speech.

I thought the Duggars were against gay marriage.

tebow, run like you're in the nfl.

Oh my gosh can you imagine if Jana pairs up with Tim Tebow and Jessa is stuck with that doofus Ben? Jessa doesn't even get the mansion like Jill does. And if this Tim Tebow business is true does that mean Jinger has dibs on Skylar Weiss? Anyone else out there willing to admit they've seen every episode of 19 Kids and…

I'm hoping Jana is the one that flies the coop. She seems like she could be pretty fun without all the Duggar rules holding her down.

Re: DuggarBow, I see this is as a GOOD thing. Why ruin two other normal people when they can just get together and have a good, old fashioned time together.

For an additional perspective...I use the term "females" when I want to use a term that encompasses both women (age 18+) and girls (minors), cisgendered or not. I haven't found any other word that means this!

Anna Kendrick is so great. She makes me proud as a fellow Mainer, and she's absolutely right in this. I'm never going to refuse to identify as a feminist for fear of some guy (or girl) getting all weirded out about it. In fact, it's probably a pretty solid way to separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were.

Honestly I didn't even give it a second thought, because my brain just goes toward the natural alliteration of feminism —-> females. I personally never mean it in a derogatory manner, but if that's a real trend, then I'd hate to unknowingly be part of the problem.

*raises hand* guilty. Thanks for pointing that out