I think that the point of “who we like” vs. “who we don’t” and why is a valid consideration here, and not necessarily indicative of the “The Great Feminist Hypocrisy” that some commenters are seeing. There’s a reason that many of us would laugh when Chris Pratt does this, and start sharpening our rhetorical knives if,…

If you run at the wall between platforms 9 & 10 while thinking about Clive Owen instead, it'll totally solve that for you.

In hindsight, I should have realized what I was in for long before it happened. My rugby girls, many of whom were quite vocal about never getting married, were suspiciously insistent on the bouquet toss, threatening the beating of my life if I chose to skip it. The stampede away from the bar when it was announced was…

Late to the party as ever, but I love a PTQ where I can copy my own previous work (when describing an inadvertently sports-themed facet of our wedding). I say, fuck the bouquet toss in favour of an out and out brawl. Literal blood on the dance floor (but not the metaphorically named band, they’re awful) or GTFO.

The selective spin on legitimate scientific study is what really burns my grits - that blind faith that no one will read the source material and/or will be so overwhelmed by the language of actual scientific rigour that they retreat to the comforting arms of the EWG and its ilk to be rocked to sleep and told…

One can only hope that will be a component of "The Artist is Present" 2.0. Marina Abramovic makes a presentation on landscaping to your condo board, and gently bathes your face with a moist banana leaf. Or something.

Let me see if I can explain... it's... a different name for racist apologia? Yeah, that's pretty much it.

I mean, she sat down pretty quickly, but possibly just to observe his high-hand-clap infused mating dance. It's probably pretty overwhelming. My heart was beating like a frightened rabbit's when my husband proposed, and we were by ourselves in his apartment, watched only by cats. No matter how elated I was, if it…

Fuck, man, sometimes (often?) I read your posts and am like "Mom?" If you were, I pray our screen-names would be just another white lie we concealed from eachother, but I digress. As a teen I would have said I was "100% honest" with my parents (or really, my mother, who was the conduit through whom all such…

I am dying laughing, because I'm pretty sure that my MIL bought the same one for us. For reference, I taught skiing for a living for several years and was a provincially-ranked downhill racer as a juvenile/junior. My husband still does "pizza... fries..." which, no shame, he only started in his 20s so we could go…

I should be clear that my feelings of sympathy towards this woman doesn't mean that I think she should have kept her job. It was the right decision to fire her, if for no other reason than to maintain the trust of parents and families. However, she seems to acknowledge her bad decision, and hopefully has learned a…

Yeah, the hidden opinions and proclivities of your neighbours are maybe hidden for a reason. I'm sorry about your neighbour, and about hiding-in-plain sight racists everywhere, really. It's definitely awkward to have a major break with someone whose face you still see across the driveway every damn day. Thankfully,…

Agreed. Interestingly, I'm in Canada, in a province that doesn't do subsidized daycare across the board, right on the border with one that does. The difference in cost to the families and quality of living for the providers is staggering. We have a decent minimum wage in our province, but even so, I'm amazed that many…

On the one hand, boo. But on the other, an area of overlap between extreme couponing and Mommy-centric buy/sell/trade groups sounds really promising in the secondhand message board drama area. Throw in some sister wives and you've got a TLC series that'll air 5 times a day for 10 years! I'll bring the chardonnay...…

Thanks - I don't do that kind of work anymore, and some days I really miss it. It takes a special kind of temperament to remain in that field, though, and I just couldn't sustain it and left when I felt like I couldn't do my best any longer. The men and women I worked with then who are still with the program are…

Right? And, I mean... I have a toddler now, and I can fully admit that sometimes he is a monstrous little asshole, but I would not be down with hearing that (in that way) from the mouths of the people who look after him all day. Instead, they say "WeeCanuck had a bit of a challenging day - it's all in his…

I worked in daycare, playgroup and daycamp settings for kids with behavioural problems for a few years, and in some ways I can sympathize with this woman. I think for the most part, the "convenient myth" you posit above is true - I genuinely loved the kids I worked with, even the ones who were absolute little terrors…

This is real - I'm part of a local parents buy/sell/trade group, and the frequency with which shit gets extremely nasty is kind of alarming. Yesterday, a lady who wanted some tips on pre-registering at the labour and delivery unit of our local hospital outed herself as a pretty gross bigot and racist within about…

I can't either. And I play rugby, where a French braid or cornrows is pretty much the only hair that will stay put for more than 10 minutes on the field (fuck you, ponytail). I tried so hard, but in the end, the best I could do was to make a deal with my neighbour's teenaged daughter to braid my hair before each game.…

Girl. Go to Spain in the winter. Fly cheaper, eat better, stay longer, and see shit when it's way less crowded. Buy many nicely made scarves and wear them fancily. Know that winter in Spain is not winter in Canada, or anything. Depending on where in Chile you're from and where in Spain you go, a little warmer or a…