I called my dad “papa” growing up, but we speak French and my kids speak French, and that just happens to be the correct word. Now I’m annoyed at hipsters for ruining it for us francophones.

Thanks for the link! I have a love-hate relationship with Québec. I’m not “de souche” or “pure laine” (I’m basically a POC), but I get why Québécois get emotional about their culture. They fought really hard to maintain it, and it’s not just “we hate all anglos”. On the other hand, yeah, they totally neglect francos…

As a Québécoise living in the USA... Counterpoint: Massachusetts.

I agree. Where we live, we need an all-terrain kind of stroller (wooded area, beach, grass, gravel, dirt, etc). We have a cheap one and a Bumbleride and we keep going back to the Bumbleride. Man, that thing can turn on a dime! Buy whatever makes your life easiest, I say.

That’s the thing for me. Even though my body rates a solid meh, I have a face that reads like sex (I have inherited my mother’s heavy eyelids and big lips). Men think my face is hitting on them even when I’m asleep. Men think I want to give them blowjobs because I’m eating my lunch. It is absolutely fucking creepy.