I agree. I don’t care either way about the Plant woman, but the tone was so incredibly judgey. It’s a shame, as I’m sure it’s (probably) not the case, but all the references to momtrepreneurs or whatever... it just comes across as written by someone with a huge chip on their shoulder. There was no need for that - the…

This is a super fair critique of this article. The one point I wanted to comment on was this:

They often don’t have much more money- it all goes to childcare. If you have and need a full time job, you have to get childcare for your child/children and it’s not cheap. I know women whose entire paycheck goes to childcare, but if they quit to take care of the kids for a couple of years they doubt they could get a…

If you read other recent posts on the subject, it’s not champagne and caviar for everyone spending a college tuition’s worth on preschool. In states where high costs are the norm, it’s more like being stuck renting and using old cars and going deeper in debt while praying for the day that your kid gets into public…

Agreed. There was a shit-ton of mean-girl-ness in this article, especially in that paragraph you pointed out.

Thank you for this. It is so frustrating that women who are also mothers seem to be the last demographic everyone feels great about mocking endlessly, and I notice this especially from younger women who haven’t had children yet. I never see this level of derision aimed at dads, so why are mothers so horrible and…

Agree. This woman shouldn’t have authority over anything because she is insane. Hearing stories like this make me seriously reconsider every having children because I would never be able to operate in a community like this.

Where I live, people think the purpose of an apostrophe is to warn the reader than an “s” is coming at the end of the word.

It’s actually not that much. In fact, I pay over $19,000 in maryland. It’s high for my area, but even the low end (like the kind of places where they leave your kid in a swing for hours at a time) charge at least $1000 per month. This is the problem with parenting and child care and telling women on welfare to just…

That word is an instant eye-twitch for me. YOU ARE A FUCKING GROWN UP! GET IT TOGETHER!

AND he reached right across a whole other person to do it, as if the guy wasn’t even there!

True story - my mom and grandma have curly hair. My grandma had always gotten shit at jobs for her hair. When she finally got a union job, she wore a straight wig for her entire probationary period (a few months?) ad then the day after her probation was up, she wore her real hair to work and they couldn't say a damn…

I’m so tired of my curly hair not being “nice” or “professional” enough. It’s so ridiculous that curly hair has some kind of weird value attached to it.

Rayanne: walking thriftstore and mid-90s style icon. <3

Sorry, I had to illustrate your story...

My personal theory is that some cats can bi-locate, especially when sleeping. Not all cats can do this (or most don’t bother), but it explains a lot of the “saw the cat on the stairs, then saw him sleeping on the couch” stories.

Your cousin’s poor computer skills annoyed enough an IT’s ghost to do troubleshooting over Ouija.

Jewish mothers always right

The nerve of these women! Men NEVER band together to get their candidates elected!