I dunno. I always thought it was exaggerated, but I have a friend who lived in England for several years who was hit in the face by the mirror of a passing car (wrong side of road/dangerous...) and had to get her teeth fixed. She went to a dentist there who was trying to tell her she’d have to have a few teeth removed…

Dawg, rule number one of teaching: don’t write that shit down. Go to the bar and talk smack. Leave no written record. Of course those kids are dumbshits. But you’re supposed to labor under other delusions.

He was bewitched when we were in our mid-20s, that prolly explains it...spell hasn’t lifted, tho.

Too bad it’s usually not possible to just let people who can’t cut it fail...alas, it usually gets laid at your feet anyway.

And why should women be stuck bearing most of the child care burden, is my question, at this late date...if it is so mofo-ing important, why not more stay-at-home sausages? or breaking the work up equally?

Ugh. I feel like this starts early. I have a brother, and I feel like everything he did was supported and lauded to the hilt and like it was going to lead to the Future for him, and everything I did was treated condescendingly like the project of a little lady, isn’t that cute. My parents are not particularly grosser…

Be an asshole, get ahead. Not sure why this is the ethos of the modern workplace, but it seems to work like a charm. At least for dudes.

I’m in my late 30s and I am still treated like a newbie, in spite of having been employed in some fashion or other since I was 14 and having a graduate degree. Part of the time that’s been justified-I’ve changed jobs a bunch of times and there’s always going to be something new to learn (which has sort of been the…

Definitely not. Thirty-two is a cow age. I got married at 33.

Ugh, vomit. Because I’m sure the consequences would’ve been the same in both cases...oh wait, for him, it would’ve been what, self-defense or manslaughter (‘the bitch was cray, yer honer’) and for her it would’ve been whatever the maximum sentence is in her state and more. So at some point we will all wake up and stop…

I did go to my #1 pick, was on my way an’ all that, and then made a bad grad school choice and derailed. I am an office drone now (hopefully not forever). But I make an ok living and I have fun hobbies and nice people in my life, so...I mean, it’s not bad, and I don’t know what to tell you. Life is pretty capricious,…

That’s kind of a bummer, because for whatever reason, Kirsten Dunst just aggravates me.

:_(

Really sorry about your cousin.

Nah, but she’s hip to Red Corinthians and Blue Galatians.

I loooved that Zuul shit and I was a little girl. And my parents’ money was the same color as it would be if I was a boy. I just wonder what these people’s lives are like that they don’t have someone of the opposite sex to relate to in a movies-and-books-and-music way.

I did think it was a little bit of an odd editorial choice for the NYTimes, now that you mention it. I imagine lots of reporters have been pestering her about it and I don’t hold it against her for allowing herself to be interviewed, but yeah, it was a little bit People.

Ha. Watch the very same people do backflips to protect Uncle JimBob from allegations of molesting his niece and then telling girls who press charges against their high school athlete rapists that they are ruining someone’s life...bet you cashy money.

Is it 1995 though

I hope you’re right, because it is really, really effective...