I’m on Team Wig for the “natural look” but still. This is not an accident. Whoops, I slipped and became a black woman!

That hair takes effort. She was definitely trying to do something.

“Whole family shady and cray” gets my vote.

Yep, me too. My lunch break is scheduled for 1 PM, so I eat my lunch at my desk at noon. I use the faculty/staff gym which is 2 blocks away. I can get in a 30 minute workout and shower, and fortunately no one in my office is a hardass about getting back from lunch a few minutes late (we’re a pretty fitness-oriented…

That’s actually not bamboo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_…

I’d say that in the cases of Soso, Larry and Alex, they all are written to be terrible and unlikable. That’s sort of the point of them.

I learned this pretty quickly the summer I temped at the sub-prime mortgage lending arm of a bank. This was before the sub-prime lending meltdown occurred, so the bank I was working for was buying up sub-prime loans left, right and center. My job was to go through the paper loan files and check that all the documents…

Word. I once forgot to take my headphones to the gym and thought I was going to cry until the front-desk attendant (it’s a tiny employee gym so everyone kind of knows each other including the attendants) took pity and lent me some earbuds that had been left. I do not even care that that might be gross—I wiped them off…

And beware the stats, too, because there are some super shady figures put out there by homebirth midwife organizations. Completely manipulated stats based on voluntary self-reporting and fudging of outcomes reporting. Because guess what, homebirth midwives also have an agenda based on their own self-interest or…

We have high infant mortality because we have much higher poverty and much less access to routine medical care for those in poverty than other industrialized nations.

We have midwife-led centers attached to hospitals here in the US, too. It’s not as common, but if you live in a largeish city there’s probably at least one. That’s how all my prenatal care was done, and when I delivered one of my midwives was on the ward and would have been the one to catch my baby had I not had…

Maternity wards and NICUs are routinely on separate ventilation systems. The hospital I delivered at is a specialty women’s hospital where the majority of the place is dedicated to maternity, post-partum, and NICU.

Citation needed.

It’s a cute book, but I have always been irritated by the fact that it’s a sausage party.

Other things I freely swap pronouns for on the regs:

I see a lot of dads pushing babies where I live, but the economy of my city is mostly higher ed, medicine and tech. Lots of flexible working hours, and as a result lots of dads taking a major role in raising their kids. My husband is a really involved dad and he’s often out and about with our son and he gets way fewer…

“Family” is just code for “controlling women.” This is all easily understood from the standpoint of what they really want is all women to be barefoot, pregnant and at home. It’s not about children at all. If kumquats had a magical property that forced women to be occupied staring at a kumquat all day long at home…

You should also know that not all women get g-spot orgasms. A lady may appreciate you making the ole college try, but do not feel like a failure (and for god’s sake do not feel like you need to finger her for one thousand years) if she doesn’t get off.

With a salvation-through-faith ideology like protestants tend to have, all that matters is that you believe rull hard that you’re saved. It doesn’t really matter what you do or what you say because the next moment you can clap your hands and get right with God and it’s all good again. (I’m not a Christian, but in the…

Once upon a time I was a teacher, so I’d hit the Kinja character limit answering this question.