I am a mom. In fact, I am the only mom in the group of my work friends. None of my friends want kids but most of them do like children. I really hate this stereotype of women that don't want kids must be selfish, childhating, mega-bitches. I wouldn't be friends with people that hated kids or really hated anything…

I am trying to think of ways to spin the trend piece that would feature Childfree Type B's like us ... "Radical Feminists or Sound Sleepers? Trend-Spotters Are Confused.

:muffled applause:

I'd also like to offer another Lady Type up for discussion: those of us who are opting out of having kids by choice, not because we're too focused on our careers to pop out babies or whatever the stereotype is. Some of us just don't care. We'd rather focus on working hard, building solid relationships with the people…

I love that she made him call his mother. Way to go her!

I really think there are few punishments worse (for non-criminal offenses, at least) than forcing someone to confess to their mothers their misdeeds. Bravo.

Oooh I like the additions! Pinkies up.

Okay. So I was living with a boyfriend of five years, and one night as we're sleeping, I wake up to him having sex with me. I didn't really even wake up, it was more like I entered a lucid dream. The next morning I asked him about it, he said he didn't remember us having sex. He snored, and sometimes had fitful…

YOur friend is awesome.

Attention commenters: this piece is not about white women stealing braids from black women because black women had them first. It's about the NYT writer being an idiot and subbing "white women" in for "all women." You are still allowed to braid your hair.

Not just white women. White RiFF RAFFs too!

Okay, I'll grant the media attention is all skewed white, but white women have been braiding hair just as long as black women have. Braids are a pretty universal way to deal with long hair. Rather than "white women" the important part of it is is "rich women" (which are generally white.) It is not because "white"…

Doesn't exactly fit the theme, but someone downthread reminded me of when I was 19 and worked at a cafe in a super white town and would constantly get people asking "what are you?" and then being disappointed when I rattled off every country in Northern Europe and then added, "oh, but my grandma is Black Irish so…

AHHHHH OMG GIRL YOU ARE LUCKY YOU MADE IT OUT ALIVE.

A guy i had dated for 6 months told me he was going to Aruba with 6 of his guys friends. He asked me to housesit for him, water his plants and drop him off and pick him up from the airport. Before he left some of his other friends invited me to go skiing with them. After I dropped him off at the airport I went to…

My ex told me that he was not allergic to latex, and insisted on having sex with condoms as well as with me on the pill.

Didn't this happen to, like, everyone who was sexually confused and emotional on Livejournal in 2002? I am just amazed you knew all the players in real life.

He had several framed pictures of a woman I had assumed to be an ex-girlfriend or something. Whatever. One day he asked me if I wanted to know who she was—he then proceeds to tell me that this woman was his sister (then did look a bit alike, to be fair). She was raped and murdered several years ago. He couldn't talk…

We had a new guy start working in our office and it quickly became apparent he was interested in me because he would creepily hang out at my desk and try to chit chat in Spanish, which he thought was fun because no one else in the office spoke Spanish. It wasn't. It was weird. He would ask me about my hair and if I…

I can dredge up nothing weirder because I have no such memories to draw from. On the plus side, if you stay single forever then your significant other can never lie to you.