Really? Because the second you have a child, it comes to the forefront of your worries. Check out how much a decent daycare costs, until the child is school aged. Money (still) has to be one of the first considerations a couple or potential couple has to look at, particularly when it’s a question of either marriage or…

Yeah, this was going to be my answer (or non answer) that it depends on the chiropractor. Some of them are actual doctors (usually trained in physical therapy/sports medicine initially) and not the kooks you hear the most about that want you to give your kids homeopathy instead of vaccinations.

It’s like a beagle. Tell a beagle it can’t have a cube of cheese. The dog will follow you around stealing cheese at every opportunity. It’ll find a way to get into the refrigerator. It’ll dig through the trash for the tail end of a sandwich. It’ll see you with cheese and follow you around relentlessly. It knows you…

The scientists were in Australia, the first person to go was the scientist that created the machine (we can assume they’ve always operated in Australia.) Nora said that travel was very slow, due to there not being enough pilots. It’s entirely possible/probable that she had to travel back to Australia to find the…

Everything I ever get for Christmas is made in Asia. China has a “one-China” policy that covers most of the relevant countries that we agree with/support/don’t press them on politically. Clearly this means that Santa Claus is actually Chinese.

I got a few points wrong, but others were good enough to correct me.

LOL! Actually according to plan, for once! (I knew someone would make the jump/joke.)

Because there might be bears in the schools.

I saw a small article about it on the BBC app, but nothing in any of the US media.

Or it could bring up the “this is why so-called ‘women’s issues’ are actually ‘everyone’s issues’” argument. It points out that due to the burden of elder care falling largely to women of working age, we’re losing a viable and valuable portion of our workforce and political potential because there is no other…

I know what a bogan is, but thanks. So Woman’s Day = XO Jane in print.

Ah, thanks for clearing up that it was not the same reporter/publication.

*snort* I doubt that he would have anything even approaching a decent chance. Most of the population of the Victorian era that were (officially, since women and children didn’t count) unemployed were men who’d suffered a crippling injury from work. Even just throw your back out and you lost your job to some other guy…

Two different attics. One (your husband’s or father’s or possibly your brother’s, since your femaleness made it impossible to own even the clothes you stood up in,) to hold you in while you were sick (read up on the rest cure, seriously horrifying) and one belonging to relatives (hopefully actually yours, but not…

Victorian Slum House was just on PBS. More people should watch that than Victoria. Because guess where most people’s families would have been? That’s right, sharing an outhouse and fleas with 150 other families!

I never understood how people could think Jane Eyre was such a “romantic” story. He has his wife chained up in the attic. How was that supposed to help with her being “crazy?” How do we know Bertha’s crazy? We have only he and sideho’s word for that. And I hadn’t thought of JE in YEARS until I saw Taboo this spring,…

Yes, to massage your hysterical uterus so you could be kept calmly in the attic until you could be transported out to the country relatives who would promptly chain you up like a dog in the attic for the rest of your life.

In short, it wasn’t a tabloid magazine (or so a friend in Australia assures me,) the reporter had been told on more than one occasion to drop it, one of those occasions it was the magazine’s legal department that told her to drop it, she went ahead and published it anyway, Wilson’s career tanked (and most of us in the…

ISIS could be trolling Trump.

They weren’t Americans, so the Republicans don’t care.