My aunt gave me really good advice when I was applying for college--she told me to look into the Greek life stats and avoid colleges that had them altogether OR choose a school where they weren’t a big presence on campus. I didn’t, but in hindsight, my aunt was right. I can name a whole bunch of schools without Greeks…

Again, it’s not that they don’t intend to, it’s that we ran out of time in our curriculum every year. It’s in the textbooks. (I grew up in New York, the student is from Massachusetts but it’s a private school so common core does not apply.) I also want to emphasize that students don’t pay attention. I still remember…

This doesn’t surprise me. A student who was not in my history class saw my white board notes on blood libel and usury etc. and thanked me for teaching people about those things because “they don’t even teach the holocaust at this school.” I was pretty horrified, but not surprised. I also don’t remember covering it in…

Don’t use a reusable pee rag, that is a fast-track ticket to a UTI. I carry TP wrapped in a small ziplock bag in my pocket for peeing in the woods on short hikes and long hikes. It’s useful. Since I’m not fancy enough to buy biodegradable toilet paper, I pack it out in a separate ziploc bag. It’s the same bag that I…

Blake Shelton and an Oklahoma ranch perfectly fit with the person Gwen said she was all along, IMO. She explicitly said she wasn’t a feminist and she talked about wanting to be more girly, get married, have kids, etc., her entire career. Not that the SAHM isn’t feminist, but the picture of domesticity she painted…

I’m so very sorry for your loss. I think your reasoning for hoping for a boy is sad but makes a lot of sense.

Just imagine the reaction this story would have gotten in 2015. Now stealing wombs is just going to be a minor blip in the news cycle. That’s why they can get away with this.

Don’t have a good answer for you here, either. Harry Potter is really good children’s lit. As long as you talk to your kids about why the author sucks IRL, buy the books used so she doesn’t make more profit off of them, and point out the problematic parts of the series (huge red flags for the goblins at the bank at…

No problem, I hope I wasn’t too harsh! FWIW, I slip and call women bitches more frequently than I’d like to admit, but I’m working on it. And I’ve also amended my stance on this website many, many times. 

I’ve both been a teenage girl and I teach them every day. Along with the boys. We’re all culturally conditioned to ridicule women’s emotional outbursts and excuse men’s toxic masculinity, so I’m not surprised by your comment, just disappointed.

I don’t see them turning into the little bitches teen girls can be

I got excited about the chance to raise a not-sexist boy.

I teach teenagers and would rather have a girl any day of the week. 

I can’t imagine wanting to raise a boy. Then again I am sexist.

Whenever people start talking about babies’ genders with me, I don’t scold them, but I use the term biological sex in my responses. They get uncomfortable and change the subject. Win!

Surprised to see this is from the people who gave us Atonement since that was so well cast and this is one of the worst book-to-movie casts I’ve witnessed.

It did cost more, but they’d already footed the bill for the fittings and fixtures. The 3M pounds was for walls, plumbing, etc. As a royal property, it was in pretty good repair, so the figure isn’t very surprising even though it’s a historical home. Worth noting that they still don’t own this property and never can,…

Haha I didn’t mean to imply that these are normal work skills. Just that most influencers literally have no discernible reason that people watch their videos aside from their looks. At least a few show videos of them doing things that are vaguely interesting to watch!