Jokes about menstrual cycles are not funny. Period.

The omnivores start by starting a nice letter writing campaign to not lose their favorite spot.

One side are being outright pretentious dicks, the other side are being passive-aggressive pretentious dicks.

Yeah, I asked because I didn't want to google and accidentally see something horrifying. I approve and appreciate your decision to not include pictures.

The box logic described in this article does little to explain:

Yeah, I understand there are character limits in the headlines, but BOTH the parents were shot - and, as you said, the father was probably injured much more severely - so it's strange to omit the father from the headline entirely in favor of alerting us to the presence of a fetus. (Also smacks of the classic "women's…

I've felt the same way for a long time. They are "The Absolute Worst Generation".

Denying things that actually happened is called gaslighting, in case you didn't know, and pretty serious emotional abuse in my opinion.

How do you know my mother??

Yup. My husband's mother does this. She was/is an addict and is physically and emotionally abusive. But she did a GREAT JOB b/c he's successful! Someone give that woman Mother of the Year!

I have some experience dealing with someone (not a parent) who is so willfully disconnected from reality that they just don't understaaaaaand why you're upseetttttt what did they do wronnnnng can't we talk about it? And fine, you summon your backbone and your patience and you explain it clearly and simply. And your…

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

Hey, it's not easy to have skin that reflects the entire visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum so evenly. If that doesn't deserve special recognition, what does?

"...each branch comes up with its own criteria for excellence and each nominates its colleagues..."

My kid thinks my Magic Wand is an oversized microphone. Mamma needs to practice her karaoke. A lot.

Also, in all fairness to Target, I think one of those vibrating cartoon toothbrushes gave me my first orgasm.

Obviously the cat disagrees with the Right to Bear Arms.

If the company can't afford a $10 tip on pizza, they aren't giving out raises or bonuses.