My husband and I work together. He is in an open environment, I am in an office. Every time an illness passes through our small DINK household, it starts with him, and I inavoidably get it a few days later.

Requiring doctor’s notes is such absolute horse shit. I remember having a couple of professors in college who would always insist on one if you missed something. So even if you just have a bad cold, and you KNOW you should just be quarantining yourself and drinking lots of fluids and resting, you still drag your…

There was ONE single woman in the group? There was an entire group of people, and the presence of one uncoupled woman made it inappropriate to him? WTF?

I’ve definitely ended friendships over this before. It’s entirely weird having someone feel that way about you in ways you don’t reciprocate. Having had the experience of being “comforted” by someone who you know is internally fist-pumping your breakup so they can make their move is fucking awful.

I’ve thought of this before, as a bisexual lady. I’m married, and committed to my husband. But if he expressed discomfort with me being alone with other men, would there also be concern about me being alone with other women? Or only if they’re queer? Theoretically speaking, I could cheat with ANYONE. The whole idea of…

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I don’t have any experience with it within same-sex relationships, but I know my friend growing up had her grandma and grandpa on one side of the family, and her oma and opa (spelling? IDK?) on the other side, and I thought it was lovely. When she talked about her grandma, I knew which one she meant, because the other…

I WISH I had been allowed to attend church with reading materials growing up. :(

I bet there are a bunch of different options - Mama/Mom/Mommy being one of them. I might be totally recalling this wrong, but on The L Word, didn’t Bette & Tina go by Mama B & Mama T? Maybe I’m making this up?

God I love Melly.

Related: Today I went to a different place for lunch than I usually do - further downtown. And in line behind me were SEVEN old white guys wearing white or pale blue dress shirts with silky, boldly-striped ties a mile wide. Seven, in a row, with nobody else in line. They all appeared to be there separately, too - no…

Because Americans are basically just the worst. It’s the same reason no man goes into politics without immediately losing the ability to wear a sleeker suit or a skinny tie. Even our liberal candidates need to dress conservatively in order to be taken seriously.

I can’t speak towards the previous stance of Jezebel writers/commenters that you mention, but as a natural blonde, I still find the women of Fox News super creepy. I know that merely being blonde doesn’t make me a willing sex object or “compliant” or whatever. But the numbers, yeesh. I’m so curious how long they all…

well thank goodness

too salty, unfortunately. :(

I would not want Christmas coming out of my you-know-where.

I had to take a break after that one because my brain wasn’t accepting any new information. It broke me.

I don’t even try to style my hair straight anymore. It used to be an occasional thing, but a few months ago I finally threw out my round barrel blow dry brush and my flat iron. No matter how much time I put into straightening it, it still ends up frizzy and curly somewhere, and even if it magically doesn’t, my hair…

If I, random woman in the Midwest, put pink ends in my hair right now, I don’t think everyone would assume it was because of Gwen Stefani. But if my recently-divorced ex husband happened to be dating someone who very famously wore her hair this way, then I think it’d be a bit more fair to draw this connection.