I feel like on Jezebel, and a lot of other women-oriented sites, the stress over not judging mothers has gone so far that no one is comfortable criticizing a mother even when she does something genuinely shitty/bad. Of course we shouldn’t be judging mothers for little stupid things but I mean, there IS such a thing as…

My mom has consistently said, for the past 10 or so years, that she loved the teenage years and above with me and my brother. So I’m not sure what Katmandu is getting at. My mom’s experience was that parenting got easier. Of course it varies for people, but that’s just my two cents.

I just started NJ (like literally watched the first episode of RHONJ this afternoon) and this little reference makes me giddy with excitement for the journey I’m about to embark on.

Thanks, I was confused when I read that. She’s only in the headlines for making ignorant/stupid/offensive comments, I really don’t see her as some intelligent hard-hitting journalist.

I was thinking about The Hills today. I watched all of it a few summers ago and may rewatch it again because its oddly addicting. But I’m still not sure why the show existed. And I don’t mean that in a “reality show is so dumb way!” because I am a happy consumer of ridiculous reality shows. But like, Lauren Conrad was…

The first five seasons are on Hulu Plus! Hopefully they’ll put up the 6th season soon for streaming. Its really good...I am actually jealous that you’re just about to start.

I’m just finishing up season 5 of Real Housewives of BH and man is Kim Richards completely out of reality. I feel bad for Kingsley.

Agreed, lets not go too far with this and swing over to “Kim Kardashian is a role model for us all!” That actually is exactly what the “celebrity ec0-system” promotes, for the public (us) to choose sides and then hold celebrities we don’t know to certain standards we form in our heads.

I live in Miami and my electric bill for the past month is absolutely obscene.

I know, I understood her thinking process and I guess I wasn’t shocked. It just sucked. I am only 24 but I teach and tutor high school girls and when they’re under the age of 21, they’re really just kids, no matter how mature they look. I think older women should be role models, not encouraging them to compete with…

It really, really bothers me when older women get into it with teenaged girls. Teenaged girls are NOT your peers, they are still kids.

Its summer so I’ve had a lot of free time (I’m a teacher) and I’ve literally been thinking every single day about the emails I used to send this intellectual mysterious douche that I was obsessed with and the memories make me want to shrivel up and die.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or severe alcoholic.

In Sarah Hepola’s book, she writes in one part how before she got sober she was so terrified of what people would think when they see her without a drink. She then writes how she realizes now that mostly alcoholics are the only ones who actually notice and/or care if someone is not drinking.

Yes.

I LOVE the case of D.B. Cooper! I think what I love about it is that no one got hurt (other than possibly Cooper), its a strange story, and we never found out what happened! I think a lot of Americans love the idea of just doing something completely insane to get a fresh start in life. And remember the crazy Mad Men…

I honestly went there when I first saw the picture so I was confused. I was like “doesn’t she mean her daughters would be on the left because they’re natural and the celebrity would be on the right because of labiaplasty?” I don’t really know what I thought lol...this whole thing is bizarre.

One of my Facebook “friends” (girl I met at a punk show once years ago) posted a meme saying “when you and everyone you know voted for Bernie but Hillary keeps winning” with a question mark, implying the whole thing is rigged. But the thing is, maybe everyone she personally knows voted for Bernie, but amongst my…

Exactly. It just doesn’t make fucking sense to go from Bernie to Trump. If you hate Hillary so much then either don’t vote or vote for a third candidate...but HOW does it make logical sense to vote for TRUMP when you were initially backing Bernie?!

Good point, and times definitely were different. Its just somewhat of a myth that it was super common for 13 year olds and below to be in sexual relationships. In fact, some of the earliest feminists in America advocated for statutory rape laws to try and protect girls from sex and/or marriage at too young an age.