We stumbled into the vortex of YouTube Kids with my 3-year-old during potty training — we needed something that would convince him to stop playing and sit on the toilet every hour or so, and every other incentive we tried failed — and I deleted the app off the tablet after we realized that he could follow the sidebar…

Not all of their clothes are that hideous — my mom has a pair of plain blue Lularoe leggings. But you can buy plain blue leggings anywhere, not just from the trunk of your Facebook friend Linda’s car.

Perez Hilton looks... poorly.

I just checked out Bob Marshall’s website, and it reads like it was written by a particularly nutty 13-year-old. I can’t believe he was in the House of Delegates for TWENTY-SIX YEARS.

Not at all the most important part of this story, but how in the heck did he appear at the door wearing only a hand towel? I’m relatively slender and the only part of me I can cover with a hand towel is, well, my hands.

I’m so sorry. My dad was never physically abusive to me, but after he died I discovered that he’d hit my mom at least once (which means he probably hit my stepmother too.) If he were still alive, I genuinely don’t know if I’d let him spend any time with my young son. As for your children not getting to know him; I…

I think it would 100% depend on the context - is this someone at my company, or at another company? If we work at the same firm, do I report to him, or does he report to me? If they work somewhere else, are we likely to work together again in a professional setting? What have our interactions been like before this…

Huh. I was a Georgetown University employee about ten years ago, with insurance provided by the university. This was well before Obamacare, obviously, but my recollection is that my Georgetown insurance covered my hormonal birth control, provided that my doctor said it was prescribed for some other reason (i.e.,…

Oh honey, you’re only a martyr if you haven’t done anything wrong.

Am I the only one who finds “Santa’s Coming For Us” to be somewhat.... ominous?

I agree that “Look at Me” is terrifying, but I always thought it was fake :) To each their own scares, I suppose....

Yes, that was supposed to be “years”, sigh.

Yes! I woke up the other night to get a drink of water and thought “I’d better walk to bed with my eyes closed, just in case.”

I reread the stories from the previous year, and this one still haunts me:

I love how he describes pressing his erection against women without their consent as “pursuing a relationship.” Who said chivalry was dead?

I had never heard of Dorothy Stratten before, so I looked her up, and oof. What a bizarre and awful story.

Not necessarily inappropriate, just creepy: when I was a naive and idealistic 20-something, I worked for a progressive advocacy group in Washington. I’m not sure if it’s still the case, but at the time you could wait outside the Senate floor to try to talk to Senators as they left. My coworker - also 20-something and…

“strong and constitutionally legitimate interests in promoting childbirth”

Well, there it is, the silver lining to being an only child. The only family member who can tell a scandalous tell-all about me is me!

If you ever needed proof that God’s female...