Oh I get hopping mad when people ask me if my husband will babysit when I get the chance to go out. “It’s just called PARENTING when it’s your own child!” I always retort, embarrassingly loudly and probably spitting a bit.

I’d have the sam reaction you did. But why do we want to hug and applaud men for having discussions about their own children?

Stop. Stop laughing. Stop it. I’ll make you stop. Did I mention Patty is my character’s little sister?

Telling us she’s your sister only makes it funnier/worse.

you’re not going to watch the video? I’m going to file a Title IX complaint against you! For Feminism!

Actually it’s pretty much the same love story as Twilight.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

WHAT IS THAT. I just visited again to check, and within ten seconds of loading the page :

Well, douchebags gonna douchebag. Good riddance. Also, Mallory Ortberg is evvverything. Also, I would spend way more time on that site if it didn’t immediately kick my laptop into Panic-Mode Survivalist Freakout OMG Grind Grind FAN FAN FAN FAN HOLY SHIT WHAT’S HAPPENING. Is it Flash? Some kind of overwrought CSS…

I am always encouraging my kids to eat pudding cups so I have a reason to buy them. Nothing makes a better late night snack than two or three pudding cups. Jeez kids, do we need to buy more pudding cups again? Where do those things go?

Even Keith Richards would be dead 5 minutes in

It’s when your movement stops being a rational one, based off of pragmatism and self-criticism, and starts becoming a religion, fanaticism based on dogma rather than discourse.

Honestly, this feels a lot like punishment. I’m not saying that that’s what the police as an organization overtly set out to do but the lack of police presence is basically sending the message that if the police aren’t able to police the way they want to, then everyone suffers. The people who feel it the most are the…

It makes me wonder if there’s some internalized helicopter/ “special snowflake” parenting going on, too. “Someone said a thing I don’t like. I don’t know how to think outside of my tiny mindset and can’t solve my own problems! I don’t have to put up with that! I must eliminate the source of this discomfort, which is…

Me too. I was brought up as a second-wave feminist, so at 34 I am finding the current iteration of feminism to be frustrating.

“symbolically incoherent” is a phrase that a lot of college students need to have in their head when they plan their activism, just saying.

What bums me out most about this is that the question of consent laws, “spheres of victimhood” and the worry about infantilization is SUCH an important and interesting one (and…

I have issues with choice feminism, to be sure. Everyone has the right to make whatever choice they choose, but some choices are inherently more helpful to the mission of equality than others. Now, on the other hand, we all have to live and function in a patriarchal society. This makes it basically impossible to live…

Then I demand a raise. And a BJ.