Yes and people can also feel like they don’t have a choice in the other direction. When I accidentally got pregnant when I was 26 the first time I had sex with a guy I had been dating for about a month (condom broke AND I took the morning after pill and I STILL got pregnant) my mother basically freaked out and told me…

Yes, as an American living in Denmark, I agree that Europeans are much more racist and want immigrants to assimilate, rather than integrate, which literally always backfires.

While I agree that being afraid of Syrian refugees being terrorists is totally absurd, I just want to point out that your description of the tourist visa situation is not how it works out in reality. I know this because my husband is a Danish citizen with a Danish passport but he is originally from Afghanistan and…

No I got that in Brooklyn;)

I am an American living in Europe. Again, nice try though.

No they are just sending letters home that generally say that girls should not dress provocatively. My point is that this is a cross-cultural phenomenon. And I live in Europe and am married to a Muslim so I have a feeling I do A LOT more thinking about this stuff than you do. The most obnoxious trend to come after the…

Ummmm. This shit happens all the time at Christian and public schools in America. Girls being told they need to dress in ways that won’t tempt boys. Nice try though.

My thought is this: if it doesn’t pose any health risk to your daughter, then there is no reason to do anything differently than what your wife is doing. You and your wife can control what kind of food you have available for your daughter and that’s pretty much it. I have a toddler who is a bit overweight and I worry…

Yeah I had a list of deal breakers when I was single that I can no longer remember, but I’m certain my husband, who is the best dude I’ve ever met, must have some that were on that list. I think the whole superficial deal breakers thing is actually a bit of defense mechanism in stressful urban dating scenes. It’s like…

Yeah I have a friend who dated Rivers back in the 90’s in New York. She said they broke up because he couldn’t stand that she didn’t drop everything if he wanted to hang at a moment’s notice. Also he said things like ‘Baby, I was just on stage in front of thousands of people, and now I’m here with you.’ This friend of…

Are you moving to Norway? Do you currently live there?

This might explain why I (a white woman who dated mostly white men before marrying my brown husband) no longer find white men at all attractive. Like just don’t notice them in a sexual way. The only men that turn my head anymore are ones that sort of look like my husband.

I think that the problem is actually that this technology changes the way our brains work in a way that reading a book or offline things just don’t. There is a thin line for me between my phone being something that makes me more productive and gives me a little break, and it being something that prevents me from truly…

Oh this makes me super sad actually that this movie exists. I loved Man on Wire, mostly because I moved to New York 2 months before 9/11 and had all these horrible images in my head from that day and that movie replaced them with beautiful and transcendent ones. The stills used in it were breathtaking. That movie did…

You’ll do fine. Basically every mother lies awake at night afraid her kid is dying for the first few months and then you get desensitised out of sheer sanity preservation. Or you don’t and you literally lose your mind. But like I said you’ll do fine:)

Because basically everything causes a rash. Bacterial infection =rash. Viral infection=rash. Fungal infection=rash. Their immune systems are learning the ropes.

My daughter currently has hand, foot, and mouth and has a horrible rash on her bum (it’s not in the name for some reason but it happens there too) and diapers hurt her so I let her go diaper free the whole day and had to walk around cleaning up piss and shit from the floor. I also got the virus from her and have…

I think this is his version of a midlife crisis.

I’ve spent a couple of hours with him and my takeaway was that he was very nice, professional, and not very alpha. Which could be a good or bad thing depending on your taste.

But I bet their mothers thought the same thing. And look I don’t know you or your kids, but I bet there are plenty of people who feel the way you do who would be horrified if they actually found out how their sons treated some of the women they have slept with. We like to think we have control over this stuff, but as…