I have to ask (if it won't give too much away) what were the two cultures? I'm nosy as hell.

It needs to start even earlier than that. I work in a day care and I teach pre-school-aged children consent. "No means no and stop means stop." gets tossed around a lot in my class. They ask for permission to touch or hug. They understand that there are ways to say no that don't involve talking (My class is 4 and 5…

Read "Under the Banner of Heaven." Super-fanatical religious sorts don't like their women reading and thinking for themselves. They get all backsassy and then you gotta put 'em down for good.

Mmmm, I like watching you sleep. And 365 days from now, I'm going to murder you and and eat your kidneys for dinner. It will be fun, I promise.

Let me join in the chorus of Fuck Her. And I'm not even speaking as a working mom (though I am that), but as a goddamn human being. Expecting people to work until 10 PM for no earthly reason? GTFO with that shit. Unless you are literally doing heart surgery or preventing a nuclear meltdown, there is no reason for…

She sounds like she was pretty much a dick as a manager if you DIDN'T have kids. For fuck's sake people, some of us have lives, hobbies, OTHER family members we like to spend time with. Companies have stopped giving a shit about any of us... why do they think we'll continue to sacrifice everything, and kill ourselves…

All the stars to the lady entrepreneur who out-trolled Mr. Shit-on-me.

Yes, I'm replying to myself, I know... I just wanted to add on I have the PERFECT protest sign to picket the WBC and I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, being from Texas and all.

Clearly, the Dread Pirate Crunch is taking no prisoners.

My husband and I met in grad school and didn't hit it off immediately. We got stuck in the same miserable class together on Monday nights. It talked about music history, and one night the instructor went on an endless ramble about Schubert's "syphilis attacks" and kept saying the nonsense phrase "syphilis attacks"…

One of the biggest mistakes I see in jokes, and storytelling in general, is that people have no idea what random extraneous details to omit. It depends on your audience mainly, but if it's a joke involving technology, and you're telling it to your grandparents, you can probably leave out the fact that they were on…

Who screwed up my wedding? Writer/Director David Mamet (young folks may know him as Zosia Mamet's father). He was filming a movie in my hometown the day of our wedding.