@danceswithfat: Thank you so much for that excellent explaination. I hope you'll allow me to explain myself - your direct opposite.

@sushini: I'm 100% with you on that. Perhaps my non-conservative vote will be useless in Calgary, but I'd rather no government than a conservative one.

@zegota: When telemarketers or charities call/mail and call my mom Mrs. [Dad's first and last name] we a) know that it's not one that she supports and b) often gets a very rude response along the lines of that person doesn't exist. *click*

Puppy knows she's a member of the family. If she wasn't no one would stand for her stretching out to take up 2/3rds of the couch.

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@drunkexpatwriter: I think we'll have to agree to disagree. That MOB hat was elegant and tasteful, much better than Camilla's hat. Actually I might email that picture to the MOB in my life as a little favour from maid of honour to bride...

*rolls eyes* How ever did my aunt recieve an excellence in teaching award when she had the gall mix her professional and private lives. Not just content with having two genetic by-products of sexytimes she taught them when they reached her grade!1!

Seeing as Canadians go to the polls on Monday, this is a timely article. There has been plenty of debate on this issue in the last couple election cycles. Harper's conservatives have been firmly in the individual payments /tax breaks camp and been vitrolic regarding liberal plans for subsidized childcare spaces.…

Hmm, that's kind of weird. My arches are quite flat - to the point I saw a foot doctor to get orthotics for my athletic shoes. (One go around the agility ladder was sufficent to get a charlie horse in my arches *winces*)

@Malle.Babbe: Exactly. To my junior high peers a quiet bookworm with good grades who wore loose, comfortable clothes must obviously not as she seems. Ergo a nasty rumour about prostitution.

@septembergrrl: Even if you don't have free schooling through university there's a huge difference between 15000* in tuition per year and 5000 a year. Canadian students carry debt, sure, but not nearly as much.

You seriously want to emulate this guy?

@79SemiFinalist: Everything about that guy was terrible. I just happen to love my sneakers. Also there's something especially galling about him demanding a woman must sacrifice both health and comfort before he'll deign to bless her with his attentions. (Can you tell I've had the "high heels are crippling you" lecture…

Yuck to the guy in the article who turned up his nose at a woman who had the audacity to wear *gasp* sneakers on a date. Actually yuck to the whole smug sanctimonious blend of mysogyny and putting Russian women up on a pedestal labeled "exotic domestic submissive."

@SophR: Thank you for saying this before I watched it. I won't now, poor darling cow...

@drunkexpatwriter: I just threw up a little bit when I read this. The people who think of things like this and the microwaving etc are sociopaths, full stop. I'm horrified to hear this is something gaining ground and as sick to my stomach as I'm feeling right now, thank you so much for spreading awareness about it.

Yeah, I tried one on in NYC last summer and laughed so hard at how ridiculous it looked that a sales associate came to see if I was ok.

@Irin Carmon: I think in some cases it goes beyond that - my parents did a good job teaching myself and brother #1 the ins and outs of laundry but brother #2? There's an excellent reason why his nickname is "absentminded professor."

Wow, I guess my bookcrossing group sprung out of nowhere, rather than an all women SF/fantasy bookclub. I kind of want to know where she thinks some of the great writers of heroine-led fantasy came from? Does Tamora Pierce not exist in her world? How about Kristian Britian, Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, or Holly…

@briarbite: It's been a long time since I've seen this anime but I thought they encouraged her to cross dress to pay off an ever increasing debt. I always had a bit more trouble with the debt angle.