I’m not the tiniest bit shocked by the scheme, or the list of participants, or their plausible arguments for why it’s totes okay to do this, and that’s just because of WHERE I LIVE and MY PROFESSION... and honestly, if it wasn’t for the fact Singer tried to make his scam a 503(c) instead of just paying his taxes under…

YEP she’ll be just fucking fine because we live in hell. 

I know a lot of people with kids who literally have no friends, they just hang with relatives all the time, and do the superficial couple-with-couple night out or mommy coffee group.

I’m sure the moms weren’t compensated, if by that you mean paid any more than single folks, and I’m sure they experienced the same sexist female gap in their paychecks that I did.

And don’t forget the many, many times per week the childless are called to take care of any off-hours business because the child-full have already vanished off to daycare etc.

In the U.S. childless adults don’t get the tax breaks that adults with children do, which can also certainly help make up for some of those differences. Also, for those of us without children, sometimes employers seem to justify paying those without kids less since they don’t have as many responsibilities from the…

I don’t have kids, and I confess, I have felt jealously towards people I know who got a great job that I wanted, and within a year went on maternity leave. I’m in Canada, so it’s paid and for a long time (I think a year or so) and then they just get to walk right back into their jobs! This pisses me off, because I…

That’s not completely true though. So the dudes that get time off also expelled a baby from their body? People that adopted also somehow managed to expel a baby from their body? No. It’s an allowance for creating a new family and dealing with that. It’s a chance to spend some time on something you find to be important…

First of all there is no golden path for mothers at work. It’s not a rose garden.

But put it this way: if your friend group decided they would all go out for a nice meal and treat the birthday person each time (and also bring a gift), and there are 25 people in your group, and you’ve spent all year kicking in for the food and drinks and gifts for those 24 people... and now it’s Dec 18, and everyone…

That’s fair. I have very complicated feelings on both sides of this! I love me a good wedding. I will cry daintily when you walk down the aisle, give you a tight hug and the sincerest of best wishes, and then get drunk with your cousins and dance barefoot with sunglasses on to “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” until it’s…

Just had this conversation with someone, I get very annoyed with people who got married earlier feeling like they’re ‘beyond’ weddings, bachelor/ette parties, etc. My wife and I probably attended 50 weddings together before we got married, more than a dozen BPs and wedding showers, etc, in many cases organizing the…

Ah, I was the last of my friends to get married too. This meant that, as a poor twenty-something, I still had to scrape together cash to travel and gift them up (engagement party, house-warming party, bridal shower, wedding...). This meant, that as a thirty-something getting wed, those same friends flaked out, used…

“I also think people that use their kids as an excuse to be shitty friends to people that were there for their big life event(s) are kind of immature.”

But by conflating things like DIY and a $60 piece of ribbon from BHLDN, didn’t she suggest that any kind of wedding you could possibly have is too much? Like, based on this article, I can’t think of what would be an acceptable wedding.

I still love weddings. I don’t get enough chances to dress up and eat cake.

YUP - TL/DR “I already had my wedding and it was so perfect and amazing, but everyone else’s weddings are such a pain so can you guys just stop please?” How do these whiners even have friends to invite them to weddings? HOW?!!

I’m getting married at the end of the summer and this person sounds bitter as fuck. There will be no bridesmaids/groomsmen, no bachelorette, no gauntlet of bullshit events for our wedding. Weddings don’t have to be stressful nightmares. It’s pretty laughable that someone that got married straight out of college now…

Right?! Like, “I celebrated my love in this super ahead of it’s time OG hipster way and now anyone that tries to do that is posing and anyone that doesn’t try to do that is a Scrooge McDuck evil rich person who doesn’t truly understand love”.

Yeah, you’re 33 now, we get it.