Great article. My only concern is that people don’t focus on the poverty aspect and not the race aspect.

No, I did not mean shame. I meant empathy, which is why I wrote...empathy. Children that young can’t yet differentiate between the two. She, in all likelihood, just felt generally bad. Which, again, is a totally natural reaction for a human being who hasn’t been brainwashed yet. It’s the parents’ job to guide that…

Ha, ha. The MLK “I have a dream” reference is priceless.

For quoting MLK a lot in their anguished letters, I think some of those Seattle parents forgot this passage from the Birmingham County Jail letter-- replace moderate with liberal, because that’s just the shifting goalposts since the Reagan Years:

I will never cease to be impressed by the amount of racist white people who truly seem to believe that Martin Luthor King Jr., were he still alive, would be on their side.

“Passive-progressiveness” now that’s a great turn of phrase.

Counterpoint: The reason Trump and his supporters continue to shit all over us is because that is what they do.

As someone who’s marriage is most likely unraveling, it’s really dismissive to hear friends and other say “Well, marriage is hard work!” Yes, all relationships are work. But there’s an ROI for that work. You fight, you make up, you get needs met, you meet needs. Sometimes though, it is just terrible gut wrenching…

I am in no way a ‘fan’ of Doyle-Melton-Wambach, mostly because I find her earnestness to live in her ‘truth’ and be a ‘love warrior’ obnoxious...but her ex-H cheated on her repeatedly (and possibly is a sex addict?) and hid it from her. After it came out (in therapy), they still tried to work on the marriage before…

Screw “Must-See TV.” Bring back “TGIF” from 1990.

Yep. I am continuously shocked at the puritanism that comes out over this. At least reactionary right-wing evangelicals are consistent, unlike a lot of self-professed “sex-positive” liberals who do mental gymnastics to explain why their pearl-clutching is really feminist or something.

Pigeon women should take a lesson. Every morning on my way to work, I see those puffed-up pigeon bros chasing girls... a guy will puff up his feathers and follow a millimeter behind her every move, shadowing her, cooing “Whatcha doon, mami? Huh? Whatcha doon? Whereya goin? You don’t talk, huh? Hey. C’mon, don’ be like…

Wouldn’t it be a shame if we reported an illegal immigrant who pretended to have a job to enter the country, but didn’t actually, married for a green card, then FINALLY got a largely ceremonial job, BUT refused to do it and cost taxpayers an inordinate amount of money because she refused to uphold the…

I gave birth last Saturday, when I was only 25 weeks along, because my high blood pressure turned into preeclampsia and then HELLP syndrome in a matter of days. Original plan was to keep me at the hospital for as many weeks as possible before delivery, but my labs turned bad and then worse and doctors think I would…

Of course every other human must react the exact same way you do in situations or they are clearly wrong.

Do you/have you had young kids? Flying alone with two babies is intense. I think many parents would break down pretty easily in that situation. It makes me feel empathy, not embarrassment.

I know you’re trying to make a joke but, truly, in flying hundreds of hours across the globe, I’ve never witnessed babies and children behaving anywhere near as badly as most adults. And even babies or make a fuss (when forced to travel in a small eardrum-splitting tube with no sense of agency or control over their…

Yeah, as much as people hate flying when they are near children, it’s 10x worse when you’re the parent. It can be really difficult for parents to physically accomplish what you need to accomplish before take-off if they are flying without another adult to help. I always bought my babies seats so that I could bring on…

Agreed. The FA was a roid-raging dick to this Argentinian woman who was told by flight crew that it was ok to take her stroller on the plane, and Mr. Ragestroke FA clearly didn’t get the message, which is on the flight crew, NOT the passenger.

The woman was travelling with 2 babies. I hardly think needing a stroller is being a dick.