Parents are the best at this. Last week my mum got angry at me for calling her (jokingly) on a (little, inconsequential) lie and she had a complete freak out and screamed at me that I was a liar, a lunatic, manipulative and evil. An hour later (after I swiftly retreated to my room crying) she came in to ‘talk’ and...…

Yes, it must have been a two-step process - you can definitely buy ‘color stripper’ (AKA the nastiest bleach they can sell for human use) at the drugstore and then color over that pretty quickly, but the result is unlikely to be anything but shit.

It’s really great. Tomorrow is draft day for the second full women’s season and all the guys I know are just as obsessed as they are with the men’s AFL. So many Aussie girls play Aussie rules in high school but until now only had social teams to ‘advance’ to... also we have more female umpires in the men’s AFL now and…

I admire Kayla and if you are this brave at 15, you are going to make a great journalist later (or a great whatever you want to be!) but from one ex-journo to a new one: do not go alone with this man to look at the border patrol routes, no matter how much you’re no longer scared and feel sorry for him. You are 15;…

I keep arguing they have the best bodies in sports... every player has to be able to run (both very long distances over long games and also very fast sprints when it counts), jump 10 feet into the air, catch a ball, run with said ball while bouncing it (and it’s not round), handball and kick with great accuracy,…

I... did not know leggings for guys was even a thing, outside of pro cycling (where it’s still not good.) I’m not happy that now I do.

Agreed on bathrooms as safe spaces, and definitely on dragging a friend there for a chat... I wouldn’t like a unisex bathroom unless it was a single either.

Yes, but Megyn first. Hey NBC, that I’d watch!

Where do you live? I’m a woman so it’s (normally) men approaching me, but the standard “I’m really flattered, but I’m also in a relationship/married” (as was appropriate at the time) with a kind smile has without fail worked just fine to politely reject guys in Australia... in Los Angeles I knew I needed a better line…

I have a strong feeling that if you asked her she’d swear she “doesn’t see color,” so yes... take all the stars.

That trajectory is tragic... soon she’s going to be wearing a puece “upcycled 70s motel carpet remnants ” jacket complete with... IDK, original oil stains. Go on wardrobe, you know you want to... “recyclable fashion is in, Megan!”

Also don’t ask someone if they’re planning a natural birth apropos of nothing in front of mixed company at her husband’s very formal business lunch, then squeal “eeeewwww!!!! Your vag is going to be ripped to SHREDS!!!” so loud the next four tables can hear.

I am an expert at the quiet (if not silent), no one-else-notices “your fly is down,” or “there’s something in your teeth/beard.”

Mother without child here. I left my abusive ex when my son was 2.5 (after 13 years together) and I immediately got full custody, no questions even considered, the history was all there. I let my ex see my son on weekends when he wanted (which wasn’t often) because I thought that was the best thing to do (he was never…

Similar situation but teenage boys had my back! When I started dating my high school boyfriend I was 15. He had a few friends at our school, but his lifelong “gang” I’d never met. So I was anxious to make a good impression when I was invited to a backyard around-the-fire party with all of them....

I think my formal (foreign prom equivalent) was awesome, because I felt zero hype. I bought my dress the day before! The event itself was pretty blah (except laughing at some ghastly dresses) but me and my boy of about two years got back to his home (where we had our after party) with enough time for a rather…

Co-sign. A friend did extended breastfeeding which was fine with me, none of my business. Except it was when mommy’s darling little five-year-old started constantly trying to pull up my shirt and paw at my chest (“isn’t he cute! He wants a feed!”) and I was screaming on the inside.

To be fair, my then three-year-old had self-declared ‘girlfriends’ (and ‘boyfriends’) all the time. Kids learn things at preschool, although the serial monogamy (he only ever had one girl or boyfriend at a time, but he didn’t drop the last one until he was pretty sure he’d picked the next one) he probably inherited…

Ooh yes! When I became one of those I continued working freelance. The manager of my biggest client asked me to lunch to discuss a project (not hugely uncommon). So I hired a babysitter, went to lunch, and heard how he had recently discovered I was getting divorced and he thought I was very attractive and he would…

I actually know a few professional corpses! My ex worked on a very popular TV crime show. Increasingly they use (scarily) realistic dummies when only a corpse is called for, not a character who becomes one, but in the first few seasons at least, every body on that autopsy table was, in fact, somebody.