Thank you so much for doing that. In 1988 I got an abortion at a PP in Brookline - the one attacked in 1994 - and I still vividly recall the woman who got right up in my face screaming at me while I waited to be buzzed into the clinic. There weren’t any volunteers outside that day to help me walk through the…

What really gets me are the huge parties for tiny kids, like 1-4, who aren’t even going to remember it! WTF, what is the point.

Mmmmm, Entemmanns. My kids get a Betty Crocker cake from a box every year, with a can of cream cheese frosting on it, and it’s great and tastes better than a lot of the expensive baked goods from bakeries that I have had at other kids’ birthday parties. One year a mom asked me for the recipe, haha. She seemed confused…

I think a fair amount of it is internal, wanting to fit in, to be like the cool kids, whatever. I think it helped that I waited to have kids until my thirties and so was less swayed by the worry of what “everyone else” is doing. Like the title of that Mindy Kaling book “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” - worrying…

You hit the nail on the head with the “lifestyle childhood” bullshit that goes on. I really had to swim against the tide in order not to get caught up in it when my kids were little. Obviously when the kids are tiny and constantly trying to kill themselves, it’s hard to relax and have free time because you do have to…

From the magazine article - “At his request, she said, she pushed down his pants, loosened his diaper and performed oral sex on him.” - AAAGGGGHHHHHH

Wasn’t that what the cop was implying, that she consented? I guess my point was that everyone is saying that minors don’t ever consent to sex, that the very idea of a minor saying yes is impossible, but they do sometimes, which is why both statutory rape and rape are crimes but are not exactly the same thing. In the…

Ugh, I’m not defending the rapist but yeah there are 2 meanings to the word consent, the legal definition & the dictionary one, meaning to agree to something. How else do you define the difference between the rape & the statutory rape of a 14 yr old, for example, if not by saying in the first case there was no verbal…

She did consent per the dictionary definition of the word but it does not count as consent in the legal term because she is too young to legally give consent.

Yeah, my husband could handle everything. Would the house be up to my OCD standards? No. Would everyone be ok, sure. He would have a hard time dealing with stuff like vet , dentist, doctor, tutoring, kids’ activity stuff because he works full time. I work part time so deal with that stuff. I would be totally screwed…

I’m really enjoying all these gifs.

Her dad is Andre Previn. I imagine anyone with divorced parents would be irritated to hear their dad is no longer their dad because their parents got divorced & their mom started dating another guy. No your dad is your dad, your moms boyfriend is your moms boyfriend. No need to make it weirder than it already is -…

Eeeek. Uh, ok points for being honest I guess? Though I do think when couples have such an insane age difference like they do, there are always going to be weird daddy issues - not just with them but with Hugh Hefner & his young wives, Donald Trump & his young wives, Jeff Goldblum’s wife is like 30 yrs younger than…

Reading Cheri’s book, she writes about how Kim Fowley chose girls who had unstable backgrounds with poor family relationships to be in the band. He definitely groomed them to be docile by verbally berating them all the time about what dogs and pieces of shit they were. I’m not surprised the girls didn’t leap to save…

I read Cherie’s memoir a few years ago. She writes about multiple rapes - twice about herself getting raped and once about witnessing a super creepy situation that I guess was the Jackie rape? In her book she doesn’t name the woman but describes a disturbing scene when on tour. I’m unclear as to why she is being…

Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion by Jennifer Saginor is worth checking out too. Written by the daughter of Hef’s official doctor of the Playboy Mansion during the 70s & 80s.

Order it from your library. My library has a webpage where you do a search for any book you want, place a hold on it and they will send it to any library branch you want to be picked up. I hardly ever buy books. You can also get ebooks for free from the library.

His aunt is Rosemary fucking Clooney. Ugh, kids today. Don’t you guys watch White Christmas every year?

Eeeeeew, I don’t get some people. I cannot fathom fucking this guy and he is about my age. At 19? I’d have sooner been flayed alive than have sex with an ugly old guy like that. Not to mention the horrible political views this jerk has. UGH. I’m imagining the intern to be like the Reese Witherspoon character in…

He posts funny shit. I never thought he was trying to pass stuff off as his own.