Excellent point! I've been a teacher for years, and even though I joke w/my students and we have a good relationship, they would *never* think to suggest such a thing. She must have set up an environment to enable/encourage this. And the whole "boys have penises and must love being sexually assaulted in school with…

Amen, sister! My kid is about 4 and no periods since getting my IUD! I know not everyone has that luck, but I'm taking it for 8.5 months of daily vomiting, including having to run from my classroom to heave into a trash can without being stared at by teenagers.

Check out your plumbing system before the G diapers—they were causing massive clogs in older plumbing systems where I live! Newer houses should be fine. I did the cloth diaper thing with a diaper cleaning service—it was great for us, and baby Mac was much happier and less stinky in cloth than in disposable—but other…

This comment totally made my day—I bet she used the Moon Door for his potty training.

I don't think that America's Next Top model should just be women either, but I think you are missing the power dynamic of a more powerful group/class excluding a less powerful one.

Why is Michael Cera a lady duck? And do you think those of the GOP who think rape won't lead to pregnancy because the female body has ways of shutting it down were thinking of *ducks*?

"NAMBLA! We're not killers!"

" I have the right to freedomize my children all I want without the Demonazis telling me what I can and can't pantsticate."

Interesting how just pointing out that this show idea is sexist and unnecessarily focusing on men brings out the angry XYers. One wonders why lemmywinksno assumes that that we are thinking we are "owed" something because inequality is being pointed out. Also, just because a club/group/etc. doesn't want members,…

Call me an ugly American, but drinks should only be one of two temperatures—cold on the point of freezing (enough ice to keep it there! Not just a few cubes to chill it a little, BRITAIN!) or hot. Luke warm is unacceptable. This I believe.

Pizza with tuna fish? He is the weirdo. That is not right.

This girl is a hero! I remember being bitterly upset as a child about being forced to have girl toys at McDonalds, but it never occurred to me to fight the system in such a documented and systematic way!

My kitty sleeping on my lap and gently kneading in his sleep suddenly seems very menacing. Good thing he can't read. At least, I don't think he can...

Wow—horrific events for you! Frannie is lucky to have such an understanding mama.

ass to ass a la requiem for a dream

Definitely sounds like you have had some seriously awful shit to deal with, and I don't really understand why someone is thinking you shouldn't be on Jezebel—-I would like to think that most commenters here are supportive of survivors of rape regardless of gender, and I think you have a good point that expressing…

My brother and sister once did the old "Saran Wrap over the toilet seat" to our parents. The joke was totally on them, as they needed to clean it up. Well played, parents.

I like the cut of your jib!

Panic on the streets of Madison....
http://vimeo.com/m/32313559

Fingers crossed for a Parks and Rec treatment of this!