My uncle is like this and it drives us all crazy because the lies are all inconsequential. If you ask him a question, the answer will probably be a lie, but the lie won’t make him seem cooler or more important or smarter than the truth. So why?!? It’s so exhausting.

I feel the same way. I have a kind and wonderful Dad, many lovely uncles and had a really sweet Grandpa. My husband is awesome. All of them see women as equal human beings worthy of respect. Am I just really fortunate? I suppose I am and that is really sad.

“Christian name” is just an old-timey way of saying first name.

OMG that is the cutest thing. I love that age.

It depends on the reasons why, I think. My husband wanted a third and I would totally love a third, if I could just have it delivered to me at about six months of age. No pregnancy, no newborn phase. But I think you’re right, in most cases that would cause tons of resentment.

My husband wanted a third child, but he works a lot and I felt so overwhelmed when my second was a newborn that I could never put myself through that again. I had PPD, felt like I was drowning, it was awful. We are at peace with our decision to stop at two, but he was disappointed for a while.

I know of a very strange situation (a former classmate of mine and his wife). He wanted kids, she didn’t, but her parents also wanted her to have one, and offered to essentially raise it for them. So now the dad and wife’s parents share childcare, and she doesn’t do much of anything. It seems to me like this will…

I put mine on last because I hate when I’m straightening my hair and errant hairs get stuck in my bra.

And Mary I married Philip II of Spain

I feel like he’s being purposely obtuse. Everyone knows that there is gender discrimination *against women* inherent in monarchy, in that a king automatically outranks a queen. He can’t become king, and neither can Prince Philip, because his title would outrank the monarch. Shut up with your reverse sexism, Henrik.

It’s so good! I’ve just been harassing everyone I know to read it.

I have an acquaintance who was a successful model (cover of Vogue-level) and she’s in her forties now and STUNNING. But I often wonder about what it must be like to be that beautiful, with all the baggage that goes along with that. I’m generic-looking in the extreme, so aging is not a huge deal for me, but is it…

Your mom should read Hunger. Roxane Gay doesn’t tolerate that shit.

But twins? My friends who have had twins took longer to get back to their non-pregnant bellies.

Or maybe she had a c-section and a tummy tuck at the same time? But that is definitely so damaging for women to see. When I first saw my sister’s huge belly after she gave birth I gasped, because I had no idea that you still look pregnant for a while after the baby is born. It was refreshing that the Duchess of…

I was going to say the same thing. Danielle Brooks did amazing work, better than Uzo Aduba in my opinion.

Completely agree. He blew me away.

All those ladies were great actors (esp. the actor playing Irene - she broke my heart). That episode just made me ache inside.

Totally agree. Michael McKean just blew me away in Chicanery and in the finale. I had no idea David St. Hubbins had it in him.

Right? How was she overlooked? She’s incredible.