Just...don’t. I mean, I’ll allow acceptance of tried-but-disliked items from a close friend/family member - you know them, and their shit, and you know when they bought it and the circumstances in which they keep it, and when they tell you they only tried it once, you can believe them - but otherwise, da fuq you doin,…

I’m going on 17 years with my Simmons Beautyrest. It’s lasted through 3 moves in two states. It’s great, my partner likes it, and it doesn’t squeak like a motherfucker when we have sex.

I love dresses now but refused to wear them as a girl.  AT ALL.  Not until I was 12.  But I’m now working in IT, I have a PhD, and I love math.  I hope my daughter gets to be a totally complex person who gets to choose all these things for herself.  I just wish people would STFU about my daughter wearing “boy…

I hate that first date with dad nonsense.  I'm still convinced there's a lost chapter from The handmaid's tale that involves this and purity rings.

Or “I don’t know, girls just don’t seem to like me!”

I also deeply hate, “Oh, he’s flirting!” He is not flirting. He is a baby. He does not want to have sex with you (or anyone, because, BABY).

Realizing that you can never be quiet enough...that’s always quite a moment.

“The gendering aspect is also really interesting. Especially since this is happening at the same as people becoming more aware of trans and non-binary people and, it would seem, like we were moving away from such a gendered and binary approach to parenting which as you mentioned is incredibly damaging. But it’s also…

This is nauseating and I cringed while reading this entire (well-written) article.

We learned the hard way that my son couldn’t wear cheap diapers. When he was on his back, his penis would face up, and the urine would come out the top of the diaper. Little bugger required the most expensive Pampers for 3 years.

Alternatively:

I’m a dad of girls (#girldad?) and when they are together they can be rougher than any pair of boy siblings they’re friends with. Not that it is a competition obviously - but my experience with them has definitely opened my eyes about the expectations for girls vs boys (even before reading this article). Mainly, it’s…

I’ve noticed that when it comes to social media, women seem to feel the need to label and categorise themselves, at least more than I’ve seen men do it. Not just mothers, but groups of women friends too, whether it’s hashtags around brunch and rosé and their “squad” and the like, and I know several friends who came up…

I also get cringey when I see a fellow #boymom (gross) taking her 5 year old son out for dinner and is like “Date night with Aiden!” Um, it’s not a date night. It’s you and your son out to dinner. WTF. 

I’m a mom of a six month old boy, but I’m not a #boymom. Not only do I not have time to read mommy blogs or get into mom culture, but it seems very limiting for mothers to build their outward identity around motherhood. I mean, yeah, I spend like 80% of my time when not working or sleeping with my baby, but at least I…

I don’t get shame from questioning that number. I just don’t understand it. I’d wager the majority of adult men could identify her by sight and know her name. For her fame and popularity, the women deserves a tremendously larger amount of money.

All I know is that there is no way any other actress will top Claire Danes’ crying face. 

And I will forever love how Amy and Laurie ending up together and Jo ending up with a fat middle aged German professor (though most of the movies cast him as younger and hotter) was Alcott gleefully and deliberately trolling her fan base because she was pissed off that all so many of them seemed to care about was…

Can we talk about Emma Watson? I applaud her activism. Quite intelligent and engaged. She seems like a genuinely nice person. Her beauty goes without saying.

There are sooooo many weddings where you want to take the bride aside and demand she not marry this weiner and to instead bless this nice, groomed, healthy adult you’ve got picked out for her, but instead people are just quietly laying bets on the over/under for divorce within eight months.