This is super relevant to my life right now. I don't want kids and my boyfriend does so we're both on a hiding to nothing in this relationship. People keep telling me I will change my mind, my sister said it doesn't matter if I don't love the child the fact that it's father would is enough (WTF) and my boyfriend said…

Can we please stop painting parenting as the only way to get "the highest highs" in life? It's extremely self-righteous and condescending to those who don't want kids, and a knife to the heart of those that do but are having fertility issues. People are different and varied and value different things. You do you &…

My Barbies were also involved in a lot of violence - for some reason I was really into kidnapping as a child so there was a LOT of kidnapping and being tied up. My stepfather came over for a date with my mom and found Barbie and Ken, naked, tied up with shoelaces, hanging from the bathroom doorknob and was like "what…

My Barbies were a dark and scary bunch. Not only were there warring factions among them, but there would be regular palace coups, usually involving a lot of nudity and bondage and the occasional public execution. Meanwhile, the My Little Ponies were always either leading military campaigns or doing disaster…

Yea, that period after the civil war when the blacks were lynching white folk? We never were held accountable for that. And when we redlined and bankrupted your community to inflate our primary assets? Total dick move. And don't even get me started on those HBCUs and their exclusionary policies. Dude, you ever…

One more point about adoption v. IVF (as I have to go off to meet one of my clients - a beautiful parentified 4 year old boy with a mother with a low IQ who keeps getting into trouble0.

Anyone else noticed that the dialogue around this is always "uck, old mothers" and very little attention is paid to the age of the fathers creeping up because of this?

Assuming that you're a fellow female, all I can say is: phew.

Okay this is just me, but I had/have a crazy high sex drive. What kept me from Doing It with everything attached to a penis when I was single was: fear of pregnancy, and fear of rape. I'm super anciently old now, but I remember. I remember.

"On average, men have a higher sex drive than women. Blame it on testosterone, call it whatever you want—but on average, men initiate sex more than women, they're more sexually permissive than women, and they connect sex to romance less often than women."

The divorce stats (that i'm too lazy to look up) back up your personal anecdote. I know the Karen character in Will & Grace was making a joke, but it really is true if you marry young: "Well of course you're looking for The One! How else do you get to the Two, Three, Four, and the Five?"

Also, most of the chicks I know who got married to the guys they met in undergrad are divorced and happily married to mate number 2.

A Midwesterner never thinks something so vulgar as "eff off"! Nice is what we say when we just stopped paying attention and realize it's our turn to respond with something.

Exactly. "I don't want to die first."

Plus I hate the phrase, "I don't want to die alone."

My friend got a little puppy and I'm alternating between burning with jealousy and squealing at teh cute on Facebook....

It is the best at getting that gross smell out of your dishwasher, add in a cup and run it on high/hot (no dishes!). Also like other people said about putting it in your drain and adding baking soda, it really refreshes your drains! I also like to make my own floor cleaner, you can use it for hardwood and tile there…

I use vinegar in the laundry as a deodorizer. The vinegar smell does not linger at all, it's completely gone by the time the laundry is ready for the dryer. It even works on stinky workout clothes.

My sis just started a housekeeping gig, and they use it for almost everything. Makes sense; it's super cheap, no cruddy ingredients, and it works. I always have a spray bottle handy, at least for cleaning glass. Vinegar and Comet are my house-cleaning essentials.

I have it in a spray bottle and it's my usual kitchen cleaner. Sink, countertops, etc. I'll have to try it on the pet smells; we adopted a new dog a few weeks ago with a much stronger doggy odor than our previous pets/other dog, and our couch is getting kind of pungent.