o_0 I taught a multi-day lesson on minstrelsy, black face and cultural appropriation during the Jim Crow unit when I was a student teacher. The entire lesson was my own devising but my (black) mentor teacher thought it was valuable. I can't imagine a school environment where I would have to be afraid of presenting…

What are you actually being asked to change? I mean, what do you personally have to change that isn't easy as pie like "I should use this word instead of that word"?

I live in Pittsburgh and that's about right BUT HOLY JESUS GOD YOU CAN'T AFFORD THAT HOUSE ON A SINGLE $30k TAKEHOME WHAT WHAT WHAT??! If you are a single person making $30k, for the love of all that is holy RENT. We are fine with our $800/month mortgage (that includes taxes etc) with our combined income of over twice…

I'm happily married, dude. That doesn't mean that I don't get treated like dogshit by men on the regs because an unattractive older woman isn't even worth being nice to in a normal social context.

Oh, well, thanks for the permission to exist as a non-hot human. It was really keeping me up at night trying to figure out what neverletmedown thought I should or shouldn't be.

Christ. I would have spent so much less time mooning after that dude in high school I was friends with if that was the case. There was nothing short of skywriting that I could have done to make it more clear that I wanted to get. with. that. But nope. It sucked, I nursed my butthurt for a couple years and moved on.

What the hell is your problem?

I always advise people to let the professionals handle a rehoming if at all humanly possible. People think of all open-door shelters as automatic death sentences, but many are really not. They are staffed by people trained in caring for and rehoming animals.

From your mouth to god's ears, my friend. My spectrum of feelings on the man's writing for the past decade spans from "Meh, could be worse I guess" to "Oh jesus god no, what the ever loving fuck, this is awful!"

I'm just here to be grumpy that that quote seems to imply that Steven Moffat had anything to do with Casanova. He didn't. Which is why it was good and Sherlock, which he does write, is terrible.

There are miles and miles and MILES in between the kind of severe neglect and abuse that creates attachment disorders and working moms who send their children to daycare. So no, it is not a valid point to draw a line bewteen "working mom who didn't—-god forbid—attachment parent" and "reactive attachment disorder that…

Yes, what this situation really needs is some mommy war guilt. Good job.

They family is in a religious cult. None of this should be surprising.

I would actually bet cash money on cash money.

They aren't "self-supporting" in the way that the majority of us would define it.

My husband's former managers' solution to employees who rode public transit (which also sucks in our city) perhaps sometimes not being there right at the EXACT DOT of their schedule hours was "Oh, well, that's why we buy leases in the parking garage." Because everyone can afford several hundred dollars a month for…

They make the ground out of nerf for a reason!

Yeah, I am not a fan of newborns. Mine was a relatively easy baby (no colic, only major sleep problems occurred between 4-6 months, healthy) but still... the amount of time you have to spend just sitting there watching this helpless little thing, in a state of cat-like readiness for the second that it needs you, god…

I will cosign this. My almost-2-year-old is hilarious and a joy, and even when he's being difficult, it does't last more than a few minutes and he's on to the next thing. He's active and energetic so it takes energy to keep up with him but a lot of the parenting has become hands-off and so much less of that…

Look for it coming from New York or Ontario wineries and cideries.