Hmm. I think they then get married, move to my neighborhood (or at least their West Coast counterparts do) have kids, and then the guy keeps at it and the woman never works again.

In my experience, it mostly just makes them a pain in the ass. But yea, it could get even worse.

They’re divorced now but he still shows up to family events to spread his particular brand of assholery. He also looks and sounds a lot like Donald Trump— reddish hair and annoying accent, plus the arrogance and dickish views.

I had a libertarian “friend” once tell me that there shouldn’t be any discrimination laws. If companies discriminate, people will just choose not to work there, and then the company will lose out on the best workers so they’ll be forced to shape up. As a (defense side) employment lawyer, I couldn’t stop laughing long…

Just scan the comments to random articles about working moms, the pay gap, anything, and there is plenty of support for this. “Why even HAVE kids if you’re not going to raise them?” Just fuck you.

My asshole Republican brother in law actually started spewing that to me once. That was why real estate was so expensive, he said, because of all the dual income families. I think I was a junior lawyer at the time (and female). He sucks.

Is this maybe only because there are some women trying really hard to hook up with these banker types? Like it’s the holy grail because it’s going to lead to big money? I have to think there are 20-somethings in NYC who hook up in a more normal fashion. It makes me sad to think tons of women are just waiting for a…

I know two people who posted on Facebook about their kids “getting into the gifted program.” Ridiculous.

Yep! I haven’t made the reservation yet, but I’m planning for us to go on Sunday Feb. 21. I’m so excited about it! The weeklong volunteering sounds amazing. I have them on my Facebook and I watch their videos almost every day. Good luck finding decent airfare!

I always think about the police, paramedics and ER staff that deal with this stuff. I wouldn’t blame them for just beating a few of the people involved to death.

How the fuck does that even occur to a person (using that term loosely)? I hope she heals well and that she never has to know. FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep. I have a friend who has a thing on her fridge that’s like a handy reminder of proper things to say to children. Like instead of “stop that” try “please reconsider your approach.” Or something like that. How exhausting. I like to think my kids appreciate my authenticity. They're well-behaved and funny as hell.

Yea but that works too because then the people involved see that you’re giving them a talking to. Anything other than ignoring the problem, or worse yet, giving in to their whining/bad behavior.

Are there a lot of south bay people? I always got the sense that the LA people were more Westside and Silverlake. I’m not all that active though (and have two burners that I don’t know the passwords to), so if there was a meetup people would be like who are you? I’m about to go walk my dog on the greenbelt in MB…

I don’t want to go here, but here I go. Having been a five year old girl, and having had a five year old daughter, are we all clear on the amount of physical damage this would cause? I mean rape seems like a euphemism. I put this in the same category as a murderer, no question.

I’ve always wondered that. I’m an attorney and at one point thought I wanted to be a DA (notably, before I had kids). I fully understand the importance of the judicial system and how important a jury is. But if someone tried to show that to me, I would put my head between my knees, close my eyes and scream until they…

Oooh i read that. Scary as hell!

I’m in South Bay too! And my dog was decidedly meh about the dog beach in Long Beach. We’re like but you’re a lab!!!!!

I have nothing useful to add other than that I’m also 43, married 16 years but still together. I live in a beach suburb in Southern California near lots of everything, but I still don’t know where I would begin. I have a friend in this situation, divorced a few years, a couple years older than me and very attractive.…

That’s totally what we did. We’re more like agnostic and it works for us. I want to leave it open for them if religion works for them for whatever reason someday.