What I’ve noticed is that self checkouts around me don’t seem to have eliminated anything, they’re put in in addition to what’s already there. So, the CVS has always only had 2 registers and usually just one of those registers open at any given time, but now there’s also three self-checkouts off to the side. Same with…

In my state it’s legal to sell, you have to have a license to do so and every bottle carries a warning. (It’s not $15/gallon though, it’s pretty much the same as pasteurized organic milk, sometimes less because it’s local.)

I also use Out of Milk. The only bummer is that I do most of my shopping at Trader Joe’s and TJ’s uses these special snowflake barcodes that aren’t UPC, so I can’t scan stuff into my pantry list easily. I have to enter it manually.

He could, though it would look markedly different than the way things are run now. I’m usually the one that makes big projects that require time and research and planning happen, so there’d probably be less of that. But that’s fine. I have my own system of budgeting and bill paying which I’m not sure he could manage,…

I traveled alone to Scotland a couple years ago. A+ experience, would go again. I vastly prefer traveling alone. It’s the bestest.

My husband’s large extended family is full of incredibly high-achieving men and women. Lawyers, finance, science, etc... I am the only mom of my generation to not leave work. (Husband and I are also the least fancy, career-wise.) Right now, the only other working mom is my sister in law, who was out of the workforce…

I’m aware. And it sucks because with the right management, most jobs could easily be 8-hour-a-day-and-forget-about-it jobs. It’s a massive failure of leadership.

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.