No mention of the social security and 401k contributions you’ll no longer be making, nor the cost of having to stay home much longer than intended due to not being able to reenter the workforce. And the working partner had better max out their life insurance because a stay at home partner is screwed if they die or…

We keep regular office hours because we do customer support (internal customers, so it’s not like we’re supporting people who need us after they get home from their own work), but we are out of here every day at 5:00. Our manager is scrupulous about it, and also scrupulous about all of us taking an hour lunch away…

I don’t see many of them here in The Big City, but I got behind one the other day that had a bumpersticker that read “Lift It: Fat Girls Can’t Jump!”

Same at mine, but I think another major contributing factor aside from no greek life was that it was a tiny school—1500 students when I attended. So yes, there were douches and sexual assaults and I had one hell of an abusive boyfriend there, but there was no hiding in large numbers, you could not be an anonymous bro…

It’s not a lie, it’s just not the whole truth. What happens down south is on a bell curve—a few women just shoot that baby out like a greased egg with no ill effects, and a few others on the other side have some busted ass shit long term, and everyone else in the middle has varying levels of wreckage, which frequently…

True that. A lot of Jez’s articles on having kids tend to devolve into a bunch of “ugghhh what self respecting woman would ever do that????” and that’s honestly just as bad as “you’re defective if you don’t want kids.”

At a certain point, people who want a long term committed relationship will just decide that this is as good as it’s going to get and waving yourself around out there any longer will bring rapidly diminishing returns. I have a really strong memory of making this decision with my now-husband because I did, in fact,…

Yep. Fifteen years and counting of quiet cooperation. It’s a nice way to live.

I went to a college that had no Greek system at all, so for me it’s like a secret look into the lives of Trobriand Islanders or something. Completely foreign to me, and bizarre.

I think your are misunderstanding Republican objections to birth control pills vs. libido drugs. See, birth control pills prevent a woman from being punished for having the wrong kind of sex (i.e., sex not with them). This pill promises to make their own wives want to bone them more, which is a-okay. Pathologizing…

By here I mean a couple of the comment threads, not the article itself.

Whole lot of mansplaining up in here.

Preach.

I hate his music, but I think he’s really funny and charming. I’d hit it.

If you go to the link, Eric embellished heavily. The copy at the link (didn’t watch the video) says nothing about body type not mattering and makes it pretty clear that this is definitely a manly man kind of thing. But it’s kind of LH’s thing to present information that is clearly for a very specific sort of person…

I went to a non-Greek school in the 90s and even in yesterday’s higher education, it was not missed or needed.

Women generally have a much, much harder time doing pull-ups than men.

The name of the publication this was pulled from would seem to indicate that there is a specific body type required.

He seems like the kind of entitled asshat to think sexual assault is nbd because hey who wouldn’t want his D?

I hated my maternity leave because it was simultaneously boring and incredibly stressful. Mine was also a good sleeper (until he was 3 months old and I went back to work, then he pulled the rug out—jokes on you, mom!), but the unpredictability of everything with a newborn—will they sleep for 3 hours or 15 minutes?…