I’m not even going to watch this. I’m just going to look away. It neither merits nor requires my attention. Thank you for telling me about it, Rich. I appreciate the warning.

Our first woman president will be a VP who steps into office because one of these old white men kick off. It’s really depressing that’s where we need to start, but I’m beginning to think there’s no other way.

Our daycare costs exactly as much as our rent and the inclusion of it into our budget has pushed us so close to the red that I have a panic attack roughly 1x/week trying to deal with it. And it seems like I can’t talk to anyone about it because everyone’s advice is ‘cut back on your expenses’ - like that’s some sort…

My mom was a single mother in the early 90s with three small girls. She worked two jobs, drove us to school when she could and put us on the bus when she couldn’t. We started feeding ourselves when we were very small and doing laundry early too because my mom literally couldn’t do everything. We too learned to be…

I just don’t think anyone who hasn’t had an infant to 4 year old in the last 15 years has any clue how much even a crappy daycare costs. And guess what, those of us who have are just trying to get through the day and not able to make this issue known.

I have a 1 y/o and a 4.5 y/o who is heading to kindergarten in August. I'm ridiculously excited to only be paying $14k in childcare over the next year, instead of $27k.

I can’t hear “sexy baby” without thinking of the 30 rock character:

I’d also argue that Elizabeth Holmes’ trombone/Cookie Monster voice was trying to achieve the same result: being non-threatening to men she wanted money and power from. And it worked with some help from conventional beauty.

So much this. Coupled with so many bad sexual experiences, like where I felt pressured to do something that felt good for him but did nothing for me.

Gosh, how rude of us to use her for our own conversation fodder, like she’s a common appliance or houseplant. Perhaps we should do Gwynnie a kindness and outright ignore her for a while. Obviously, she would prefer to launch tv shows, release books, and set up wellness conventions in complete obscurity.  Poor thing.

C-sections can actually have longer recovery times and you are considered disabled for longer. It also involves a longer hospital stay. There are many reasons elective c-sections are not recommended for all, although I’m glad moms have choices.

There was a thread on here a while ago about loves/infatuations that just kind of never leave you. You may be perfectly in love with the person you’re with, have kids with, have a life with. ANd very happy.

When I was in college I had the opportunity to travel to Maryland to see my boyfriend and some of his friends from high school and their girlfriends (whom I later married, had a kid with and divorced) at their beach rental during spring break. I didn’t have a car of my own, but had found two students, sisters, on a…

And this, friends, has been the person who provided the seeding for today’s extremist right wing. Not Fox News. Limbaugh has been on the air for over thirty years and the summation above is totally on point - he has spent four hours a day, every weekday on AM radio stations across the country, sputtering on about any…

It’s a closed, hospital-grade system, so all you need are your flanges and bottles to hold the milk. There is no way for milk to get into the pump and cross contaminate with another person’s milk.  

Slightly after our first kid was born, I was tasked at the office to plan our office move to a new space. I was working on all this at home one evening, with my giant print outs of floor space and spreadsheets of names, and word docs of section requirements for people and spaces, and my wife asked me where our…

I think you are absolutely correct. I think the author of the article gets too wrapped up in being upset about fat shaming to understand the real problems with the show. Changing your eating habits is how you lose weight, being able to exercise comfortably is it’s reward. I do give The Biggest Loser credit for…

Not sure a show about friends living together is a high enough concept that you can attribute the idea anywhere. I guess Living Single owes credit to the Golden Girls then?

This commercial isn’t great, but I’m not seeing how it’s problematic. It’s tired and unoriginal, but the woman isn’t a passive object, she’s the main character. And she’s not being objectified, she’s accidentally doing something inappropriate in front of children.

There’s a reason the roles aren’t reversed. If the movie were called crazy/poor person, the plot would fall apart and the happy ending would most likely feel too far-fetched even for Hollywood.