Other Mother from Coraline. Mrs. Wormwood from Matilda. Mama Fratelli from Goonies. Mrs. Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

If you look more deeply into the study, the theory of the “gendered brain” has very little to back it up. If it were true, doctors would simply do brain scans of prospective trans patients to affirm or deny their self-declared identity.

Great! I’m in favor of gender neutral bathrooms, as long as there is also a female-only bathroom available as well.

100% An ideology that cannot be questioned and stand up under debate and scrutiny is worthless.

Trans women *are* different from women. They are male. It is not hate to acknowledge that fact, or any of the biological reality that follows from it.

She has never said all trans people are a threat to women, but that the erasure of sex-based protections (i.e. single-sex services, spaces, & sports) puts natal women at risk by eroding safeguards & creating opportunities for harm by male predators, who have demonstrably used non-dangerous trans people as a cover for…

Robocop definitely scarred me, particularly the body horror aspect of losing what makes you completely human. But the worst gross out in the movie that really stuck with me was the guy who partially melted in the toxic waste and then got blorgplooshed by a car. Blecch!

Being too self-involved to know what’s up with your friends can kill friendships, and it’s a super easy trap to fall into, especially when your own life is busy or stressful or hectic. Making that effort to look up from your own matters and touch base with your friends is super important. If friendship is a…

I may be alone, but I love to receive a gift card! When I give them, I like to pair them with something small and related—a coffee gift card with a travel mug, a spa gift card with some lotion or a pair of fuzzy slippers, a home store gift card with a nice candle. For people who rarely spend money on nice things for…

Not gonna lie—I might buy myself one of those cat butt tissue dispensers (to go with the cat butt coasters my sister-in-law made me.)

What kind of Minority Report nonsense is this, now?

I haven’t heard that one, but it reminded me of the book Sacred Marriage. The subtitle was something like, “What if God designed marriage not to make you happy, but to make you holy?” The main idea was that marriage is a refining force that magnifies our strengths and weaknesses, and (to be successful) requires us…

The 143rd day of the year is May 23.

For stainless steel, I haven’t found much I can’t scrub off with a little Barkeeper’s Friend. I think it contains magic. Or maybe powdered silica. Same thing, basically.

In most word processing applications now, two hyphens in a row automatically convert into an em dash. To me, it looks much nicer, but unless you’re a journalist—they should care about getting it right—it doesn’t matter immensely.

Well, I needed all the designs, of course.

My best purchase this year was packs of merino wool socks from Costco. They’re like a hug for your feet! They keep my feet toasty warm in the winter, but they’re also comfortable through the fall and spring due to their breathability. I bought thirty pairs, and got rid of a whole bunch of my sad little nylon ones. My…

I hope that every video they stream for the rest of their lives stops to buffer at ten minute increments.

We just bought a new mattress from a local mattress store. They pick up customers’ old mattresses and, depending on the state of the mattress, either donate it to a community shelter program or recycle it. They explained the whole process to us when we purchased. It made me feel good about shopping locally, knowing…

Forgiveness is a tough concept, but a good therapist helped me to see it more clearly. It doesn’t always involve reconciliation or restoration of your relationship, especially not when that relationship is unhealthy or dangerous. That is a separate matter. And it definitely doesn’t mean excusing the behavior—the…