I’m not sure I would like a world where women were just as “expected to work” as men, and that 93% of us worked.

Where’s that cure for cancer?

As someone who works in this field, I don’t think the comparison is flawed at all.

I understand that you meant it light, but I see it in everyday life. My FiL (who is wealthy beyond my imagination) is down-to-earth and a cool guy when he wears an old t-shirt and cheap pants on the weekends. When my dad wears the same type of stuff, he it doesn’t make him down-to-earth, because that’s his only option.

The big deal is that you shouldn’t have to run around town trying to find a pharmacist who agrees with your doctor.

I was so perplexed by this article. Admittedly, I don’t read the MP as much as I used to.

You do realize that it’s a privilege that your friend is able to dress/act that way? He can show he “belongs” or is a worthy person by (and I’m taking some liberties, because I don’t know your friend) knowing fancy social norms (which fork to use, etc), having other wealthy/important connections, having an education…

Haha! Actually, you should probably touch my friend, he worked as a tour guide at the Ingalls homestead during the summers!

You have me beat! I lived there for 21.75 years.

I’m a Jezzie who has visited DeSmet.

If the couple has made it clear that they do not want physical gifts (and would rather you simply not get them a gift at all), and you insist on getting them one, you're the one in the wrong there. There's really no getting around that.

That kills me. What if little Billy said to Nana at Christmastime "No matter what I ask for as a gift, you should give it to me. Even if it's Grand Theft Auto. Even if you would rather give me something of your choosing."

No matter what, you are going to get boatloads of crystal vases and picture frames. Even if you make a registry with none of that on it. Even if you only do a HoneyFund.

If it were me, I just would just not register. People who wanted to give gifts could buy whatever they wanted. The couple can return/donate/sell/throw away whatever they don't want. People who want to give cash could do that.

You know, I have a lot of issues that I'm working on. But thank you so much for the advice.

Yes! At the beginning of our relationship, we went on 2 or 3 "vacations" to attend friend's weddings. Unfortunately, we were both teachers, and the weddings were during the school year, so we'd fly out Friday, go to the wedding Saturday, and come home Sunday. It blew any sort of a vacation budget we might have had,…

I'm obviously not lunchcoma, but here's why wedding gifts/honeyfunds are different for me...

OK, I'm going to show my pettiness I guess.

instead they should have given her the original prison sentence

To piggyback of what Vulcan Has No Moon said, I know a middle class white woman who was sleeping in the same bed with her baby when it died. (Maybe SIDS? Maybe she rolled over and smothered him?) There may have been a little investigation, but it was done in a way that would be sensitive to her loss.