Dude, this. My husband gets SO offended (and rightfully so) when people act impressed that he cleans, cooks and does laundry because we share the tasks. He’s even like “THIS IS NOT IMPRESSIVE. I’M JUST AN ADULT DOING ADULT THINGS.”

It also seems like wine and champagne are “fancy” and therefore you don’t have a problem. It’s weird.

I inwardly lost my rag last time someone asked me if I was pregnant when I wasn’t drinking. I said no and still got the nudge nudge wink, so I said ‘No actually, I can’t get pregnant, ever. I’m infertile.’ My friend was so embarrassed and I did feel bad, but it fucks me off that I have to have the conversations…

I am the same and I went to therapy. The therapist did not seem to think my problem was my fear of addiction :). You may need therapy because of the scars that having addicted family members left you but I think it is ok to be a little fear of addiction is bad.

I didn’t say it is? I work in addictions research and grew up around addiction. I’m the last person to laugh at it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that most husbands are probably bullshit. Three weeks ago my husband and I were buying new appliances washer/dryer/dishwasher and the sales lady was SOOOO impressed when my husband mentioned a feature he was looking forward to using. She said ‘dishes and laundry! You’ve got a good one’…

And then markets wine to us like it’s the cutest, girliest solution to our problem. Instead of, you know, telling men to clean the bathroom without being asked.

I mean, it’s probably that your husband requires daily reminding and managing in order to contribute 30% of the work you’re doing, not the occasional request to wrap a birthday present. I can see why that would drive one to escapism.

I’m also confused as how this qualifies as “paid.” You pay into SS as you work, essentially that’s your money. My work for my employer is paid, as in I am paid from my employer. I’m not paid from the piggy bank I started when I was 7 with my allowance. This is ridiculous.

‘Ovaritos.’

Also, women married to men are much more likely to take time off from work to raise children, and to be paid less, all of which reduce their social security. And then they also are more likely to outlive their spouse. Older women are far more likely to live in poverty than older men.

Well, as a man, I’m expecting these Ovaritos to be pink, to taste like a summer’s eve, and be way more expensive.

So, instead of requiring my employer to pay me for time off to take care of my kid, they’re going to take it put of the social security I will need when I retire?

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is working with Ivanka Trump to craft a paid family leave plan that will be appealing to fellow Republicans.

I don’t know why your comment reminds me of this but it does:

I love that the sentiment of this is that women are doing something *wrong* by not eating like dudes, when actually, dudes are fucking gross. I eat junk food in private, where no one can hear how loud I crunch or watch me lick my fingers, because its gross when anyone does that.

Or maybe the prospect of licking sticky fingers and then touching things in public is really fucking gross. IT IS FLU SEASON, PEOPLE! STOP LICKING YOUR HANDS AND TOUCHING THINGS!

This is so fucking ridiculous. Of course we eat lick our fingers and poor the crumbs down our gullets... we just do it in private shame the way that we’ve conditioned to do.

I was literally polishing off a small bag of Cool Ranch doritos as I read this and had reached the “tipping the bag into mouth for crumbs” section right at that goddamn paragraph.

Forcing parents to borrow against their own future is the quintessential Republican solution. Like borrowing against your 401k retirement (which has effectively wiped out retirement accounts), and the frighteningly irresponsible “financial product” called Reverse Mortgages, this is the latest way for the non-rich to…