As an adult, I laugh and cry at the random, arbitrary characteristics that have been assigned to sexually active and celibate women. Being a straight A student is about as random as having black hair or a name with one syllable. None of it has any connection to sexual activity.

President Obama said that people cling to their God and guns. People didn’t get mad because he was wrong - they got mad because he was right.

Every summer our kids have a budget project (we start when they enter middle school). My husband sets it up with them and builds on it every subsequent year. They have to research the career they want, where they want to live, where they want to go to school, etc, and find out the starting and average salaries, and…

If anything, being “independent” at that age illustrates exactly how insulating that bubble is, and always will be.

I “ran away” when I was about 6 or 7. My mom told my brother to help me pack and he was like “if she’s running away, then she’s not my sister so....”

She keeps saying emancipated but he only wanted them to pay for him a mansion of his own. He didn’t want to be emancipated from their money. Any teenager can move out when their parents are rich and can afford to buy them another home in a rich, safe neighborhood and to hire a staff to take care of all their needs.…

A job might do what all the talking in the world can’t. Even something that you’d have to set up but she’d have to keep afloat like an Etsy shop would be an eye opener. Even though I was always very mature and responsible with money, I still learned a lot about myself and the world through work.

If I had to listen to Jaden Smith for more than 30 seconds, I’d want him out of my house too.

Jaden: “Mom, how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real?”

Jada: “you’re ready to move out of my house”

A child’s brain isn’t fully developed until they’re 24 or so. There is NO way that Jayden was prepared to live on his own at 15.

EVERY 15 year old thinks they are grown up, their parents are holding them back and they need to move out. One good thing about being lower middle class, my parents could just reply “How are you planning to pay for that?” 

“translation : he was Catholic” - the whole Evangelical vs. Catholic is an issue that keeps coming up in these comments.

The scene where he proposes at the mixer after they’d broken up....so good! Seriously, Harry was one of very few men amongst a sea of man-babies on that show.

Harry is the only acceptable answer, obviously.

I feel like all of these terrible preachy movies could be avoided if people focused on Christian *characters* instead of Christian *stories* (as in, addiction + Jesus = recovery, hallelujah). Katherine Paterson, who wrote Bridge to Terabithia and The Great Gilly Hopkins, wrote great Christian characters and reached a…

When some conservatives point to the past as a time when women were revered, respected, and safe, it’s important to remember how much of the violence and abuse was simply not noticed or recorded.

I think the article conflates two distinct genres of movie. The Passion of the Christ (like The Robe and 10 Commandments, or more recently, stuff like Heaven Is For Real) isn’t a distinctly “Christian” movie. It’s a Hollywood film, made by a normal production company, for a general audience that’s expected to include…

In response to American Christians losing their privilege they have re-framed themselves as victims (martyrs) and Kirk Cameron’s movies play directly into these feelings.

Yeah. There was like a season and a half where Paige was annoying because you just wanted her to be quiet and stop asking so many damn questions lol.

it’s a power move! He knows the jacket is ugly! But he’s going to wear the HELL out of it

It is (was *sob*) such a fantastic show. This whole season was like one tense muscle. I was made that Handmaid’s Tale won all the awards last year and I will be furious if The American’s are shut out for their final season.