Yeaaahhh... I remember my mother insisting to me that she totally knew what she was talking about when giving me advice as teen, and that I just needed to listen to her and I wouldn’t have any problems. According to my mother, my grades were low because I had decided it wasn’t “cool” to be smart, I didn’t want to go…

Yep. I wonder how many of the people here snarking on her because “oh, I’ve been 17 (10-20 years ago) so I completely understand what you’re going through” get frustrated with Boomers’ out-of-touch perceptions with how we should be living our lives.

I do agree with you. The same way we “Millenials” complain about Boomers not understanding why we won’t just take a minimum-wage job and “work your way up” after graduating with six-figure student loan debt and a cost of living that has in no way, shape or form kept up with wages, I’m certain that teenagers today have…

Ha, when I was a teenager, I hated other teenagers because they were so immature and overly dramatic. In fact, I had to let EVERYONE know how much more mature and totally low-drama I was than all my peers. Largely by gossiping about all the DRAMA my friends had in their lives and how I was, like, SO superior to them…

Yep. I still feel like a kid playing grown-up.

Yeah, this. People love to act like today’s kids in general are just THE WORST, but the truth is that everyone is self-absorbed around that age. It’s a tough time. You’re experiencing a lot of shit for the first time, yet adults expect you to act like a grown-up. I sympathize 100%

I said “many,” not “all.” Lrn2reed.

While I agree that you don't need to 'come out' to your parents as non-monogamous, if he's a writer who has written publicly about his relationship, and they found out that way, that's different.

MTE. Are they all going to walk out? WTF?

Oh, yuck. I hadn’t seen that one.

CAME HERE LOOKING FOR THIS. It really is the best.

CAME HERE LOOKING FOR THIS. It really is the best.

Yes, Anna was dismissive and rude and has apologized multiple times for acting as such. Your point?

What about what I said was factually incorrect?

There is no more apt description for the entire situation than “shitshow.”

What’s worse is that the basis on which bloggers objected to the original story wasn’t very convincing, and the sort of thing that people pull out of their ass every time there’s a high-profile rape case. “People I know at that school say they don’t think the problem’s that bad.” “The whole thing sounds shifty because…

That’s a fair criticism, but on its own, wouldn’t necessarily be enough to suggest the whole article hadn’t been completely fact-checked. Someone who used that as a reason to dismiss the entire article still wouldn’t be taken seriously.

Exactly. Many of the original critics’ objections were along the lines of “that doesn’t sound like something someone would say to a rape victim” or “I spoke to some people I know who go to UVA and they say it wasn’t true,” all of which was flimsy evidence on which to dismiss an investigative report by a fairly…

I don’t think anyone’s taking issue with gentle sleep training. It’s the “lock the door and don’t go in until daybreak” that people are objecting to.

I kind of feel like even if you’re over-indulging your baby at first, it’s a lot easier to teach the kid why you’re setting certain rules once he/she is old enough to understand what you’re telling him/her. Like I stressed out about weaning my son from the pacifier but I waited until he was older and started…

Really? Because I actually did sleep train and imposed a schedule, and I felt like people were a lot more judgey if you did co-sleep past a certain age or let the kid feed on command. Maybe it’s just the different parenting circles but I got a lot more lectures about how my four month old would never sleep…