“I feel like maybe she grabbed his tentacle before he had a chance to transmogrify it back into human form and they both had to cover.” This is for sure the best sentence I will read all week.

YES- this is exactly what MomsRising.org works on. Not *just* childcare costs, but affordability+quality + equal pay + paid sick days... all the many things that affect us on a daily basis.

There are good people out here too! Come on out to the coast!

These emails are not normal, at least not to me. I would never, ever keep my child in a place with a director like this.

I kind of wished she’d been a WOC. But will always carry with me the brilliance of “

Can we please make a pact to not see this movie? Netflix is hoping that even terrible coverage like this will lead to curious eyeballs. Can we please deny them that? This really sucks.

I've found that REN is amazingly good, with clean ingredients.

I actually don't read that as side eye...

I loved it. I thought it had far more beautifully paced, introspective moments than most Hollywood films. I thought it was an interesting meditation on alienation. I think about the final scene a lot. And my life is better knowing that the guy from Salvation Mountain exists.

I spent much of my childhood avoiding cameras, or endlessly hoping that I'd show up in pictures. But it was often impossible to see my face, and I felt embarrassed that I'd "ruined" the picture.

ugh... I'm kind of turning into that mom, the one who shuttles her kids around but doesn't find enough time to pursue her own stuff. I did sign up for a writing class and did what I could in NaNoWriMo, and I was pretty proud of that. But still, I could do better. It's important for my kids to see. I should really know…

Mikki Kendall first used the hashtag. Check out #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen Creator, Mikki Kendal, Speaks About Women Of Color, Feminism (VIDEO) http://huff.to/1cL1fuM@freedom_writer: Feminism Is Not Black And White http://frsky.me/1bsBvjG

You are not alone! In the US, we have pretty terrible workplace policies and social supports for women and families. Remember this: When *this* many people are struggling so much, it's not that we have an epidemic of personal failings. It's that the system is broken.

Don't be surprised. I've encountered jerks just like this everywhere, even UC Berkeley. heh, maybe especially at Cal.

I was confused too! But I think what he means is, "we don't raise boys with the intention, guidance and good role modeling it takes for them to become good men. We are also afraid that they'll express themselves, and that seems feminine and/or gay, so we tell them not to do that, and we shouldn't." Something like that…

#COTD

Hear hear.