I get the point you’re trying to make, and I don’t have children either and am 30 and have been working full-time for the last 12 years. But I don’t think that having children is the same as the personal goals you list. We as a society acknowledge to some degree that having children is a benefit to society as a whole.…

I had to add my voice to the ‘happy moms’ camp. Sure, the first few years were a lot of work, and their early school years required a good bit of juggling, but I am _much_ happier now than I was when I was childless! (My husband and I were together 6 years before having kids, so I’ve experienced both partnered…

The vast majority of people I know who are TRULY happy being parents are the ones who don’t give a shit whether I choose to remain childless. They don’t feel the need to try to convince others how amazing parenthood is.

My husband and I had a good laugh at her idea that leaving to pick up kids from daycare is in the same realm as leaving to help your friend drink margaritas after a bad date. No one calls CPS on you if you’re late for margaritas.

I don’t like this attitude either.

“Moms who allow themselves to have an identity beside being “MOM” are the best.”

And some childfree people, like us (well me, and from your response, I assume you), act like they’re better than moms because they’re too evolved to feel the urge to “breed”. There are huge assholes on both sides of this “fight”, but the point is that we shouldn’t be fighting each other at all, we should be fighting a…

I’m a Mom. It’s not my entire identity, and it’s tough sometimes, but I love it. Now, after saying that, I’m sure you don’t give a fuck. And that’s great! Just like I don’t give a fuck that you don’t want to have kids. Good for you! You made a personal choice, just like I did, and you’re happy!

My mom, a single mother, only gets pissed off when someone who isn’t a single parent says, “I feel like I’m a single mother” because their husband is on a work trip or something like that. She’s just like

Great book, but it only works with an appropriately dramatic reading. I usually pretend I’m venting to my children about my own life and the burdens of motherhood when I read the line "I HAVE DREAMS Y'KNOW!"

“Do you know who Biggie is?” one young man asked a girl in a crowd that was, according to their chants, eagerly waiting for Eric Church late Friday evening. “No,” she said while laughing.

Um, they made billions off of her dying black body so I guess that's just white America continuing its plunderous attitude.

Totally agreed on the bromance. Best duo ever!

While the last season was a bit weak, I still miss this show so much (not to mention the weekly pineapple hunts!). The Shawn/Gus bromance will always bring me an insane amount of joy.

Oh, you mean Psych, right? ;)

I am not always the most confident person on the planet, but I have learned well how to assert myself and discuss ideas like an adult, and this was truly a big part of it.

I have been in situation A.

I’m a gen-xer WOC in a largely white, male workplace. I use “I feel like...” to couch valid assertions and thoughts in an innocuous way. I die a little inside when I do, but compromising to survive professionally is a thing.

Rather than condemn millennials—and those, shall we say, contaminated by them—for shirking “responsibility” through discourse, let’s acknowledge our more pressing duty: to stop policing speech, and instead welcome the voices clamoring to be heard.

...sheltered from it if you are white. People of color, however, experience racism in the Bay Area all the time, every day. Like W. Kamau Bell at the Elmwood Cafe in Berkeley, or Rasheed Albashari and his friends at Lake Merritt last December, when a white woman yelled Islamophobic slurs at them and threw coffee on…