I would sooner freeze to death than wear one of those abominations.

Then you should definitely BLOW UP their phones and email inboxes with your expressions of extreme displeasure with their asshattery. I sometimes feel like I’m just screaming into the void here in true-blue Massachusetts, even though I appreciate the safety that my liberal bubble affords me. I do my duty and email my…

I’ve been in touch with both Senators Markey and Warren. My point is that if I only had time to make one call, it would be to the committees themselves and not to my own Senators who are already on board.

Replying to un-gray.

My face goes numb and I lose control of my lips. They go all floppy and it looks like I’m maybe having a stroke.

Fucked-up is fucked-up, no matter what the race of the people involved. And wouldn’t it be nice if our justice system recognized that fact and acted accordingly? I am as horrified and outraged by this incident as I am by incidents where the roles are reversed. But I also understand the difference between Racism (the…

I would cosign any of those events.

I have a cousin and a friend from high school who both did this kind of crap with their daughters. One of them has a t-shirt that has a list of “rules for dating my daughter” on it, and they’ve both posted similar tropes on Facebook. They both also have sons, but none of this seems to apply to the boys. When I’ve…

Notifying every single parent of a school that a child that is allowed to use a different bathroom or a different pronoun is an egregious violation of their privacy.

Can we trade Camille for Dorit, please?

The majority of my parenting philosophy has been to think of what my mother would have done in a given situation and then do the exact opposite. It’s surprisingly easy to come up with alternatives to beating her with a wooden spoon, locking her out of the house, or calling her fat, stupid, lazy and useless when she…

In some cases, their hands are tied as well. I’m not at all defending those cops who end up making a bad situation worse, or who act unprofessionally, or who use excessive force and whatnot. I just know that there are times when they are required to take someone into custody, even if it’s the “wrong” person, because…

That was an appropriate time to summon help. Your sister was out of control and in danger of imminently harming herself or someone else. Short of a scenario like you described (which sounds absolutely nightmarish, and I’m sorry for all of you having to experience it), it seems like having the police show up can only…

Damn. I’ve been white-personing wrong all this time!

My father. He has the palate of a toddler.

No. It’s for onion rings. You savage.

Right. I mean, I know that, so it’s a bad example. I was just trying to say that it would take something seriously dramatic and beyond my ability to manage before I’d call the police. And again, speaking from a place of privilege, as a white lady in an affluent suburb, I have nothing at all to fear from the police,…

You beat me to it. My mother was the queen of the shitty parents, and yet I have managed to not allow history to repeat itself with my own daughter. People who use their own shitty upbringing as an excuse to be shitty parents themselves are even worse than the average abusive parent, because they know how it feels to…

Maybe this is my privilege speaking, but short of a psychotic episode in which her life or the lives of others were in danger, I cannot envision a scenario in which I would be calling the police because I had a fight with my daughter.

My kid was a wonderful toddler. She didn’t throw tantrums, she ate whatever was put in front of her, she said “please” and “thank you” (she spoke in short sentences before she could walk unassisted), and was just generally delightful and adorable and an absolute breeze to deal with.