We went through a period of time a couple years ago where my wife was going to be stay at home. We approached it differently than the calculator, we went simpler. We already had a spreadsheet with our budget on it (tracked for a whole year). We copied it, then zeroed out expenses, and changed expenses based on what we…

These calculators always seem like they’re trying to convince people to stay home through disingenuous oversimplification. Work expenses include lunches, but stay-at-home doesn’t include any increase in food expenses? No line item for the retirement contributions you’ll be foregoing by staying home, just a simple…

If I had a quarter for every person who says I should get this procedure done on my hair I would be rich enough to run on the Republican ticket. I have NO idea what people have against curly hair. It isn’t like I’m growing snakes or tentacles from my scalp and my curls sure as hell won’t give me cancer.

Come sit by me. Everything doesn’t need to be out on front street.

Pretty much. I think the people that champion this sort of stuff are not really interested in body image as a whole, just showing off theirs. And in this world of abundant oversharing, yes, I would also not like to have a public space turned into a “titty bar”. I don’t need to see that much of the average person.

“It makes me really angry because I feel like the naked human body is a beautiful thing and nobody should be afraid of it.”

To be honest, men don’t harass us that often.

Okay, I know I’m gonna get shit for this, but this is exactly why I am not jumping up and down at the thought of liberating our bodies and the body is beautiful type of crap. It’s not empowering or freeing in my opinion. It just opens another set of standards by which to judge people. And just for the record, I am not…

“They judged me for being naked, so I judged them for not looking exactly like me! Me! Me! MEEEEEEEEEEEE”

In what’s quickly becoming a Team Nobody sort of situation

“maybe 95 out of 100 people that walk past me smile at me or look happy or start laughing, or say hello,”

Not to excuse or downplay sexism in Tech or Finance, but these are the kinds of stories I really, REALLY would like to see more of in women’s spaces and for feminists to grapple with. I get that its hard being a woman making $100k a year in a job where a man makes $129k, and that it really sucks when some bros want to…

People who use “politically correct” and “social justice” as pejoratives are garbage human beings.

Yeah, I enjoyed sex WAAAAY more after giving birth (and I had stitches right up to the entrance to my bumhole). Once all was healed it was much more pleasurable—nothing hurt at all any longer. Sure, it could be a bit tighter, I guess, for my partner, but that’s what my asshole is for (just kidding: I’m way too old for…

Noooo. My grandmother has told me a few times about what it was like being completely knocked out with drugs (they didn’t ask her permission of course, just decided everything for her, natch) then used forceps while she was pretty much passed out to yank the baby out. They can do so much damage like that.

Sanders wasn’t really seen as all that serious a candidate until Black Lives Matter blew him up, causing white progressives all over the country to take notice, take umbrage, and inevitably take his side.

I think that if you need to be “a creature like no other” you’re probably better off alone. I’m not suggesting in any way that you subsume yourself into your partner’s identity. Or give up in believing in your “uniqueness”, but the person you’re with probably loves you “in spite of” as much as “because of” and…

I often think that my husband could have done better than me. But I guess I’m kind of selfish because I don’t care. Probably he's thinking the same thing.

Good relationships are pretty quiet things. They are not spectacular explosions.

A frat tried to start up a chapter at my uni in Scotland and our student president basically told them “Fuck off, that’s never happening”. We re-elected him.