Ah, yes. The good old “the solution to male misogyny is to expect their female partners to take on the additional emotional load of teaching men to be adults” response, with an added bonus serving of “living up to the inherent responsibilities of adulthood is actually just a personal preference” nonsense.

I’m so sorry. My husband is better than most at taking on the mental load, thankfully, but I still end up doing a lot of the mental labor on things, even though I am also the breadwinner. I’m the one who figures out which bug sprays are okay for kids and what the fuck we are supposed to do with our extremely gifted…

I feel ya. We specifically noted in our kid’s contact info that my husband’s number should be called first. But until I swapped our numbers under our names in the sign-ups I always got the emergency calls. Nevermind that his office was 5 minutes from the school and I worked nearly an hour away.

Enjoying our three day weekends? 

I agree that married women get a raw deal, but not getting married at all doesn't solve the problem of entitled men. They'll just act entitled somewhere else.

I’m in a place career-wise where I’m deeply unsatisfied with my job, despite a solid reputation, good standing in the company, seniority, and a nice salary. I tend to be the person in the family who does the majority of the house work and childcare and while I do not want to be a stay at home mom (bless those of you…

I’ve been in the workforce for over 20 years, and here is all men have to do to ensure women get the short end of the stick at home and/or at work: nothing.

This shit just ENRAGES me. And people will believe it because he said it.  

“Discrimination and family-unfriendly policies are among the causes, but research has suggested another influence: “The returns to working long, inflexible hours have greatly increased” in this “winner-take-all economy.”

This is the GOP’s new ‘welfare queen’ that doesn’t exist, except much more dangerous as unhinged right-wingers will actually kill people over this.

I’ve known some women who’ve lost pregnancies pretty late and it is absolute hell. Not that it’s a walk in the park early in, but when you’re “out of the woods” and actively preparing...I wouldn’t wish that in my worst enemy. 

Not sure that these people are inclined to be swayed by “statistics” and “reality”. 

I hate this motherfucker.  That’s what I’m reduced to.  And just when I think I hate him as much as I can possibly hate, he makes it possible for me to hate him more.  

We have no village left to help us raise kids.  I was so tired I hallucinated. I nearly drove us off the road after going down the street to get diapers one afternoon. Working parents and SAHP suffer equally. We were not meant to raise children in utter isolation. We were meant to raise children with support and help. 

I hate shit like this.

We coslept because we were just so damn tired but my husband is a very light sleeper and boy did I become one. We also used an owlet which made us feel a little better. Now I just need to get the three year old furnace out of my bed.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Positional asphyxiation can happen right in front of your face with your baby strapped in.  Fisher Price wants you to think it is dumb parents using this the wrong way.

I don’t know, seems even more awkward to have a doctor suck the clogs out...

Having had a clogged milk duct (thankfully never clogged my milk ducks) and the eventual mastitis I would have let Danny Devito unclog it if he was willing to give it a try. 

i just found out a few weeks ago that i am very unexpectedly pregnant. i took the test the same day i first suspected anything. the following day i was at exactly 7 weeks.