I’ve watched it a few times; the first time concentrating on the note-passer, but then the other times focusing on the other TSA personnel that seem to pass in and out of the area. Not enough visual evidence to say they’re complicit, but they certainly didn’t seem at all fazed that their co-worker was passing secret…

I just commented the same thing in a thread above. I should have scrolled further!

Because it marks foods as ‘bad’. Look, I know it’s weird for those who didn’t struggle with growing up inundated on the ‘diet of the week’ as a kid and surrounded by that kind of thinking, but marking foods as ‘bad’ only leads to guilt and shame whenever you ‘cheat’ or ‘break the rules’ and have it.

It’s best to…

Would like to take the opportunity to plug my friend’s book for middle grade and young adult readers, about eating disorders and recovery. She herself had an eating disorder as a young adult so is writing from experience. She worked to find resources for boys, minorities, LGBT kids, etc. who aren’t the stereotypical…

Also, this is not true. Caloric surplus is why people become overweight. Yes, eating only oreos is bad because they lack vitamins. But if you eat nothing but fruit, vegetables and unprocessed grains, and your eat 2X your daily caloric needs, you too will become obese. It’s science. You can’t argue with science.

What other investments in the community are they making? Are they trying to celebrate diversity by hosting events, lecture series, festivals, etc. aimed at bridging cultural divides? Are they enacting laws that make it easier for women to exercise their reproductive rights? Are they investing in community policing…

Arguably that’s what they’re going for. It’s not like any of us glamorous coastal elites* are the NRA’s target (ha) audience.

Exactly. I also go to bars on the weekend when the cell phone doesn’t leave my bag. The bartenders don’t really chat to me while I stare at Sportscenter waiting for the person I’m meeting to arrive, so I don’t understand the stink eye when I try to multitask during the week.

My husband gets bizarre remarks about having to shoot men around my daughter. They're unsettling. She’s a baby.

parenting culture is flipping weird

Strangely enough, I’ve had people tell me that boys are “easier” than girls. Come to think of it, it was a woman who had only daughters, and one grandson.... Maybe raising kids is just hard.

I wanted to be Stacey but I was a Mary Anne.

On that note: A slightly older friend just posted a photo on FB of her husband taking their tweenaged daughter on “her first date,” so that he could show her “how a gentleman acts” on a date. I avoided throwing up in my mouth, but it was a very close call for a while.

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…

There’s no genetic or evolutionary reason for boys to prefer cars (which didn’t exist until maybe a century or so ago). Your son - like many children - likes cars because they’re an object he sees a lot in his world that he’s trying to figure out, and they make an interesting noise. And, of course, he lives in a…

A phrase that drives me crazy is referring to a baby as “my little man.” It’s not a man. It’s a fucking baby. And maybe, if you do a good job parenting, he won’t turn out to be the kind of men we all deal with every day. 

It must be difficult for these women to be the first people to ever raise male offspring.

After my ex broke up with me, I married my husband two years later.

Also, not complex.  You want to fuck other people, he doesn’t.  Not hard at all. 

The other rich kid friends of Olivia Jade posting “GO OFF!!!” and “OH SHE DID THAT” on her photo is downright embarrassing. Peak wealthy white privilege.