Nooooooooooooooooo don’t call him Junior Mint, please don’t do that, that’s a nickname I call my oldest son!!!!!!!!!  YOU’VE RUINED PARENTING FOR ME

Fucking hell. We live one county over from Stafford county. My youngest son is trans. So far, the HS administration has been pretty decent to him (not so much his fellow students, of course). But I’m writing an email to the principal to make sure if there’s an active shooter situation, will they please make sure this…

I responded with a very snarky “Clearly I want them to know that it’s totally time to go have the dirty, dirty sex.” And before she could respond I told her “look, the message is ‘I prefer you not get cancer’”. She continued to attempt to argue with me about it. We.... aren’t really friends anymore.

When I mentioned to a friend that both my kids were getting the HPV shots, she actually asked me “But what kind of a message is that sending them?”.  For real.

Yes, kids love Sesame Street. And when my kid was a baby I wished to GOD that they would come out with diapers that had NO design on them. Because my kid really wanted to look at the pictures on his diapers - so he took them off, all the time. And then would promptly pee on the carpet.

Crap.  I’m flying out of DC that morning.

THANK YOU for running!!!!!!!!!!  Kick ass, take names.

Oh please.  She couldn’t ask nicely for them to be a little quieter?  Explained that she was working in her office?  And the mom and child were SO loud that even closing her window wouldn’t make any difference?  I call bullshit.

Here’s one of my favorite female independent film critics: Please go check out and support MaryAnn Johanson’s website, https://www.flickfilosopher.com/ 

My teens would tell you this has been true for at least 5 years already. My oldest, 17, has never even had a Facebook account. And my youngest only keeps his account because the old people in his life (like me) like to send him annoying links, and it’s easier for him to ignore them if they are sent to his Facebook…

A good rule of thumb is to follow what the person says - my trans child uses the words “prefer” and “preference” when telling people what pronouns are correct, and is okay with me telling people “Kai prefers he/him/his pronouns”. If the person in question does not use those specific words or if you’re not sure, best…

“Your intentions are not my problem, but your hands touching me without my consent are. Take the stabbing and think twice next time.”

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This makes me indescribably sad. My mother got me a copy of “Our Bodies, Ourselves” when I was 13 years old, back in 1981, and I read the entire thing cover to cover in one night. It was the single most helpful thing my mother has ever done for me

I came to this thread and was about to offer some advice, but I think Box Wine Sommelier covered it better than I possibly could. Come back and let us know about your progress!!!

Ugh it was sooooo awful. I saw the pilot preview about a week ago. Just no, no, no. And I agree about the super awkward way they shoehorned lines from the movie, it simply didn’t work.

Yes. Definitely.

Every single man I know who decided to shave it all off after starting to go bald looked FANTASTIC once they went full cue-ball.

I mean, they all looked just fine before that, but once they committed to go hairless, they looked even better (and sexier)

Holy shit. I don’t always agree with what Jane says in these columns but CALL THE POLICE, DO IT NOW.

So true about the genetic lottery. My mother is a paragon of healthy eating, regular exercise, meditates, diligently sees her doctor etc - and yet she’s had a heart attack, has terrible teeth (even though she’s just as rigorous about dental health), has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, serious hearing loss, weak…

Thank you. I have a compromised immune system - not so much that I can’t get the flu shot, but bad enough that if I do get the flu, it’ll most likely land me in the hospital. And my BFF who I love so much just revealed to me that she doesn’t ‘believe’ in the flu shot because big pharma and the insurance companies are…