Check your flesh privilege, cassiebear

Yeah she's pretty... in a Madam Tussaud sort of way.

I think the idea that this is either-or is so misleading. It's fine to give a kid some choices. Giving them some choices that are age-appropriate and no big deal is not going to create a monster.

I am a mother of four boys, ages 25, 21, 12 & 10. The quote about 5 mins undoing a lifetime of parental teachings is spot on. You don't need children to understand that. Just a brain. Talk to my boys all you want. I'm open with my children. None of them have made me a grandmother yet, so I'm guessing these kids were…

Um, I wasn't making judgements. It was just a question I posed. Especially since as a person who grew up in a fairly religious family and went to Catholic School for the first 1o years of life-I didn't see how a few minutes would radically change who I am. So chill the fuck out, ok? I've been taking foster parenting…

LESSON: Never stop learning, and learn to love it.

We could Ryanair it! (obviously being Ryanair, we'd probably end up having to use said plane as a make shift dinghy)

First thought: "MUST GO EAT POTATO SKINS AND SUPPORT THIS AWESOME GUY"
Second thought: "Shit, I live in Scotland"

Maybe we are horrible people but we never give our cats pet treats. Our cats love shrimp (they share 1 shrimp between the 2 of them), a bit of turkey/chicken, cheese or salmon. They also like lettuce but that usually happens by accident.

The problem is that the expectations are unreasonable, which is where this system can collapse. If your requirements are "file these documents and book these meetings," that's different from "invent cold fusion and resurrect my cat."

Probably for SEO. I know it's a lot more fun to think it's the other reasons, but that's pretty much it.

Woah, where did my normal, intelligent Jezebel commenters go? For the 1,000 time:

Hey, man, that dude's daughter died of a heroin overdose, and then he made a plane crash and became an omnipotent being named Q. So HAVE SOME RESPECT.

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Well, people are entitled to their opinions—and also a benefit of the doubt about intended tone (sometimes it's hard to tell in a comment)! I think this is an example of fair criticism and it deserves a response. I also think there's nothing wrong with people having different opinions on things. It doesn't always have…

Thanks. In an ideal world, all pregnancies would be wanted pregnancies (birth control for all!) and there would be a robust social safety net so that women wouldn't surrender children for purely economic reasons. Until we live in that world, though, it's really important that women know they can walk into a…

See, "Abortion does not compute with my philosophy" would be just fine as long she understood that her personal philosophy has fuck all to do with whether or not a medical procedure should be legal, but I'm guessing that's not the case. I mean, hell, vaginoplasty and Botox don't "compute with my philosophy," but I'm…

I was surprised by how okay I was with my body since I had my baby. The stretch marks, lowered boobies and C-section scar don't bother me nearly as much as I thought that they would. For some reason my brain automatically processed that this is the way my body looks after having a child and that it's just fine. On…

High-needs mamas represent. My right hand is typing. My left hand is supporting the world's most exacting baby. All she wants is to eat the goddamned finial on this goddamned dining chair and it's not happening, and she is expressing her displeasure with her one-word vocabulary: "Mama."