Here’s my personal favorite

You need weirder friends. My feed this time of year includes pictures of that elf either doing bad things or having bad things down to it. Here is one of my favorites.

If for no other reason than it’s bad TV. If I want to hear someone prose on about pregnancy or their upcoming trip, I’ll talk to my friends. And they are at least funny, cuss and not super into god so yeah, I’ll pass.

I feel genuinely bad for Jill and Jessa, who were raised in what essentially amounts to a cult and had their traumatic childhood experiences outed to the world without their consent.

Chinese women typically don’t, either. Of course, there’s a distinct tendency in Japan to consider China and Chinese people backwards, et cetera, so that’s not likely to convince Team Retrograde that they should go ahead and let women keep their last names.

this. i was going to, i was, and then i realized it would require a tiny bit of effort and i changed my mind.

I pretty much didn’t change my name after my marriage out of laziness, but I lied to my husband and said I Felt Strongly About The Patriarchy And My Name is My Name.

It’s true though. When I kept my name the entire town fell into disarray. There were roaming gangs of feral children attacking seniors. The moose organized themselves and turned against us. It was pure chaos. We had to abandon the place.

I tried to talk my partner into taking a neutral last name (neither his nor mine), but he didn’t like my suggestion: Poodlewrangler.

Look, all I know is that if I ever got married you could bet I would put my foot down and make sure that we honored tradition by my wife taking my name or my name isn’t Bears.

Considering the falling birthrate Japan ought to be bending over backwards to accommodate women who want to be working mothers. But the patriarchy never sleeps I guess.

Many women, however, would consider this transition a mark of progress. And for those who must maintain two names—one professional, one married—repealing the current law would mean no longer living with two separate identities.

Please keep doing that. Smile, say hello, ask how they are doing... As a Muslim woman I can tell you we appreciate that act more than you know. I’ve only had a few instances of someone saying something nasty to me in public but lately what I notice more is people looking away. They pull away and look away and the vibe…

Fucking racist teachers. God if I had a penny for every bigoted teacher I had to deal with going through the North Carolina public school system. Why even become a teacher if you know a good portion of your kids will be of the non white variety. And it pisses me off people like this are teaching kids and contributing…

When I was 20, I was working at a bookstore and living with my boyfriend, who also worked at the same bookstore. It was a small bookstore, with only 7 employees and when the holiday party rolled around we all went to a bar in Montouk and proceeded to get ripped. I had lost track of my boyfriend and started to make out…

So it is Christmas eve and I am sitting around the fire with my family. My parents’ house smells like mulled cider and is decorated in all its seasonal splendor. My phone rings and it is my on and off again ex-boyfriend! Things had ended badly with us and he wanted to reconcile! I was on could nine… Swoon!

By “Holiday” do you mean the Good Friday when I hooked up with super hot Alex? Or the Easter Sunday when I met him at the family brunch and learned he was my dad’s half-sister’s son?

You’re the type of person who got America into this mess! Who would eat this? Who would SERVE this?!

Ok...

Both the holiday and the embarrassing come at the end of this story.