Quite sure because they yelled ‘Fuck dig! Nu er jeg for sent!’ Not literally;) But honestly generally Danes do not go out of their way to help or even interact with strangers. I used to live in NYC and hadn’t been home in 2 years and visited recently and was BLOWN away by how helpful and friendly everyone was compared…

Hmm I think you lucked out or they were in a good mood while travelling because when actually in Denmark the Danes rides past pregnant women who have fallen off of their bikes on the street. Literally.

Well let’s see....in 2016 my husband’s 28 year old brother died of a brain tumor, I had two difficult miscarriages, my father was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal cancer and I was a victim of identity theft. And then Trump happened. I am pretty sure the “Fuck 2016" thing will never be over for me.

I live in Denmark and am married to a Danish doctor. There are a lot of assumptions in this piece that are based on a lack of understanding of the way the Danish health care system works and assuming it works the same way as the American health care system. First of all, there is vastly less off-label presribing here…

I have only been married 4 years, but in those four years we have dealt me relocating to my husband’s country and dealing with never-ending immigration issues, having a child that never slept more than 2 hours straight for the first 9 months of her life, me being diagnosed with a breast tumor that took months of…

Of course he did.

I think the primary reason for the gluten free backlash is that many not-so-kind people love a pile-on. And piling on gluten free people feels really safe somehow, like you can pile on without every really having to stop and question what they are getting out of piling on. I don’t know if piling on is actually even a…

Apology accepted. Take it from a nearly 40-year-old who is gluten intolerant and gluten free for nearly a decade: not feeling like shit is worth enduring the smug and snark. People who give others a hard time about their health and eating choices are generally assholes (or behaving like one). Welcome to the other…

I don’t know what a PM is, but as someone who has been married as four 4 years and has a two year old, and dated in NYC for a decade let me say this: I absolutely remember how awful it was to date and I am grateful to have found a wonderful man to share my life with. However, there are different and sometimes heavier…

I’ve been both you and your mother in this scenario. I would try to call her frequently andregular but make the conversations short. Say it at the outset. Like hey mom, I only have 10 minutes to talk but I wanted to call and check in. Maybe don’t ask her how she is doing but tell her something interesting from your…

I have a friend who frim college who facebook messaged me awhile back. We hadn’t communicated privately for awhile and she asked me how things were going and I was basically like ‘not great, I just had a miscarriage at 11 weeks and my husband’s brother has a brain tumor.’ I got NO RESPONSE. I would chalk this up to a…

I could have written most of this myself. I have often felt that even though I have a partner and we are technically doing this parenting thing together, our experiences of parenting are so different that we are essentially living totally different lives within the partnership. It is incredibly isolating. And I also…

Also men have a choice whether or not they want to play onine games where this sort of harassment occurs for them. Women experience this EVERY SINGLE PLACR ON THE Internet that they dare to habe an opinion or just exist in a way that a man finds offensive.

I think actually the biggest issue is that in prestige careers almost everybody is hired through somebody they know. People are not getting hired from their resumes. Maybe accountants or something but definitely not writers for television shows. And people’s social circles are generally limited by their racial,…

Friday Night Lights was groundbreaking on this, having a teenage girl go through with an abortion. I think it was the first time that actually happened in prime time since the 7os. They did focus on negative repercussions but I think that was pretty realistic for the show.

I acknowledge that most white people suck (even me at times even though I am trying not to), my husband acknowledges that most men suck (even him at times though he is trying not to), this is the only way our relationship works as a white woman and a man of color. At this point I can’t even imagine what what being…

That is an incredibly myopic viewpoint. People are not always free to leave the country they live in for various reasons. If you have a hard time understanding why an adult who moves to a foreign country might have a hard time learning the language, then you must live a very sheltered life.

Extra Bladet is a supermarket circular and that statistic is propaganda.

Oh, ok well if it was just MINOR slavery then I’m sure you’re right and there was zero xenophobia in the Nordic countries before we politically correct Americans introduced the concept. Seriously if I were to get together with some American friends of mine and come up with a script of what a Dane might say when…

Well, you still haven’t said where you are from but it’s really hard to believe you’re not a Dane. As far as there not being any xenophobia before the current immigration crises all I can really say to that is LOL. And by the way Denmark at least made a ton of money on the slave trade and in fact had slave colonies.…