I refuse to read this post because COOOMMMMEEE OOONN!

Men do it too — it’s just their voices are less policed.

Huh, it’s almost like code-switching is an actual phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-swit…

oh no, he called it out. Like the whole piece was “hey youse guyse writing TAL to complain about the vocal fry of our female hosts and contributors: I, Ira Glass, your lord and king, regularly use it, so you’re obviously a bunch of sexist fucks.” It was pretty great.

Women! You’re leaking, aging, hairy, overweight, and everything hurts. And your children’s clothes are filthy. And your voice is wrong. For God’s sake, sort yourself out!

I love how everyone is phonology expert when they talk about vocal fry being bad.

And I’m just adding my thoughts on the subject to the conversation, not criticizing the piece or the author. I didn’t say anything about either, just added my two cents.

That’s like asking someone who is against the death penalty if they would still feel that way if their children were murdered...

Right?!? It's better than crop dusting everywhere you go toting it along your diaper bag? Honestly, in all my years of public restroom usage, I've never been horrified by a dirty diaper in a trash can. Now. Grown ass adults shitting NEXT TO THE TOILET in my office restroom (true story)— that's a horse of a different…

Not really. A lot of bathrooms have a surprising lack of the smaller pad/tampon trash cans. Sometimes I feel even worse for the poor folks who have to clean out the stalls with the official little metal boxes on the wall, as they are invariably disgusting or just have small paper bags inside them. (Who thought that…

There was a big thing on of the local city blogs I read about throwing dog poop in people’s city issued outdoor bins (as in the big greens ones that get picked up weekly) and there were a lot of people who were of the opinion that if you throw your bagged dog poop in someone else’s outdoor trash, you are basically…

Well, let’s be honest with ourselves here- anyone cleaning a public restroom is by definition going to be throwing out other people’s bodily fluids. What we should do as responsible people is mitigate any exposure they’ll have, which is why it’s good etiquette to do things like tightly roll up a bloody pad and double…

I think part of the problem was the time delay. Speaking of interviews, I once did a phone interview. There was a panel, and I kept telling them that something wasn’t working right- every time I spoke, to me, I sounded like a banjo in a wind tunnel. There was a lot of distortion. It was very distracting. Plus a delay.…

I used to work at a McDonalds for 5 years. If the garbage smelled from a dirty diaper, we changed it, sprayed some air freshner and were done. We had to do a bathroom cleanliness check every 1/2 hr minimum anyways, changing a garbage was no big thing, we wouldn’t think anything of it. Go ahead and use the garbage cans…

Thank you!!

We had the fur baby before we had our human baby, so we’re very used to carrying those scented dog poop bags around with us at all times- they’re perfect for doubling as diaper trash bags. If we’re at a friends house, depending on how well I know them, I’ll either pitch the wrapped diaper in their outdoor trash, or…

It’s creepy and gross and now he’s managed to enmesh his own children in his sordid affair. They’re gonna need some therapy for this one. Good one, Ben!

I had a friend that worked as a Nanny in NYC while she attended college and she was shocked by how common nanny banging was. She even left a job due to a dad making constant passes at her.

To me it seems especially threatening to Jennifer since the nanny has bonded with her children. It’s one thing to know your husband cheated, but it’s another to know she is living in your house, playing with your kids, and now has your husband. I’d be ragin’.

I am sad that this nanny is named Christine. I was hoping for Jennifer. I want him to only date people named Jennifer.