I'm tickled that you used the word "tickled". I'm jolly well tickled about it.

Similarly I hate Jayden but am not overly offended by Jaden. And I love Jade for a girl. There is no rhyme or reason to it.

Not all of them. I changed three of the five in this play. In some plays they won't be so simple to change, but in this one three of the five parts could be played by any gender.

Merida, arguably both sisters in Frozen, Jane (of Jane and the Dragon), Susan (Monsters vs Aliens), Mulan, Rapunzel and Mother Gothel from Tangled, Princess Fiona (from Shrek)..... Yes, I watch a lot of cartoons. What of it?

I have actually done this. I wrote a play with 4 male roles and one female role - then I started reading Jezebel and I looked at my play and thought - why the hell is this play a sausage fest? What was I thinking! These don't need to be dudes!

Ah thank you for the tip. I have finally figured out how to do this.

Also: thank you.

Please, share away. Mum would be horribly embarrassed, but I don't think anyone will go to the bother of finding out who I am in order to embarrass her. Though chances are we know each other, or our mothers were on the Plunket committee together when we were babies or my cousin is married to your auntie or....

She likes me!
Fingers crossed.

I'm in precisely the same position. I have heard rumours of an invitation thread but I have never seen this mythical beast.

I love the ones of people looking normal and flawed. Cameron Diaz, Lorde, Lena Durham - I'm looking at you. You all look a bit tired and blotchy without makeup on - how I look everyday. Yay! Kelly Osborne just looks like she would be so fun to be around. I like all these people a little more for having seen these…

In New Zealand we get 14 weeks' paid (not paid a huge amount, but it's very helpful) maternity leave and one year's parental leave where employers are obliged to keep the job open. This one year can be shared between mum and dad, mum and mum or dad and dad however the parents see fit. We also get a statutory minimum…

I visited my French grandmother in hospital WHERE SHE WAS DYING and she told me how pleased she was about how lovely and thin she was getting.

My grandmother gives the worst gifts. No - scratch that. She gives great gifts to her son's children, but her daughters' children have inherited second-class citizenship from our disappointing (i.e. female) parents.
One year I got a cookbook from the 60s with the pages stuck together with food. I still managed to read…

Maybe you should stop being such a judgemental killjoy (she says judgementally).

In New Zealand right now you can buy a meat pie at McDonalds. Georgie Pie was a fast food chain when I was a kid and - even though almost no one actually went there when it was open so it went bust - everyone is nostalgic about it and feels like they so would go there if it were open now. Seriously, there have been…

I really, really hope his response was to say "Big mistake. HUGE. I'm going to my lawyer now"

This kind of experience is what made me finally "get" white privilege (understand it, that is - I presumably got it just by being born white). In my case I really had walked out of the store without paying! (By accident of course!) But still, no one batted an eyelid. I just walked back in with the alarms still ringing…

You're right - I was being hyperbolic. There are some on the internet (expensive though!). But where I live there certainly aren't any in the shops.
I guess my main point is that they just can't infer from how many "boys'" toys they are selling that it is necessarily just boys who are buying them. I mean they would…