As soon as I saw the headline, that was the exact story that popped in my mind—the tampon string tug.

home ec!! does home ec even exist in public schools any more? I’m in my 30s and fondly remember making pajama pants and funnel cakes in 7th grade home ec

God I love the Phils’ radio crew. They can make a terrible team entertaining. I’ve almost had to pull the car over at times.

I loved how Ikaika just fucked off to Hawaii without letting any of the other band members know. And his weird-ass brother who seemed overly protective and jealous of him in a way that made no sense since Ikaika was a grown ass man (I could swear he was one of the oldest members of the group) who could take care of…

all birth certificates are non-gender specific.

ALL OF THEM.

they list sex. stop purposefully conflating the two to make points.

I don’t suppose it matters on the birth certificate, but it does seem a little foolish to just pretend sex has no relationship to health. You don’t need to force anything on a child, but that is medically necessary information regardless of what gender, if any, the child identifies with.

“She’s being more careful this year. She’s learning.”

I’m not here to say whether Torre is a bigot or not, Hernández may have a point in regards to white umps getting promoted. I do know that Hernández doesn’t get to work World Series games because he’s a fucking terrible umpire.

How many minority umpires are there? If, say, half of them are minorities, then having none of the last ten or whatever crew chiefs being minorities seems very suspicious. But if it’s ten percent minority, then there’s nothing out of the ordinary.

Counterproposal: what if Danny Ainge and his staff are lying about what they offered for George and these other oh-so-close players to placate the notoriously fickle Boston fanbase? The “No one in the Eastern Conference will trade with us” narrative does seem specially tailored to appeal to the THEY HATE US CUZ THEY…

My daughter plays on a 12U travel softball team. We do it because she loves to play and loves the competition. We are in a minority. Her athletic scholarship is me investing heavily in a 529 plan. She plays cause we have the money for her to do so.

Most of the parents are fucking nuts. There are girls on the team…

Because nothing gets a 21-year-old, newly-minted millionaire engorged and tingling more than a shopping spree at Lord & Taylor?

My son is now 16. I started reading the first one to him at the same age as your daughters. Reading each book and THEN watching the movie after was just so joyous. We still bond over Harry. (BTW-Don’t you dare let them watch a movie until they read the book-the conversations we had surrounding adaptations and the…

I had a few friends who weren’t allowed to read the books because of their Christian parents. The parents believed that the books promoted satanic worship because it was about wizardry and “black magic”.

Go now. Order it online, download it, run out to the store. The first book is short. Less than 400 pages I believe. These are not children’s books. If you truly don’t like it you can hunt me down and I’ll PayPal you the 10 bucks.

Here’s my possibly controversial opinion about the books: Hermione ending up with Ron was a TRAVESTY.

I was on a college trip to Rome when book 6 came out. We spent the morning doing touristy things, until I could stand no more and I dragged my 2 travel companions to a bookstore. “What if they don’t have it?! What if it’s in Italian?!?” But there was a giant stack, in English, right by the front door. So yes, I’ve…

Dudette (the 9 year old I nanny) was finally allowed to read the series this year and she LOVED it. It was awesome to see the series through her eyes. I’m so glad she has role models like Hermione and book!Ginny (especially Ginny, because she’s a redhead too). Sharing HP with her has been my favorite part of this past…

I grew up with Harry Potter-to the point where the 7th book was released on my birthday, the year I turned 17, and I was freaking out about how cool it was. I got it for my birthday, at the midnight premiere, and sat at home and read it cover to cover without pause, except to cry. (Hedwig!)

I always come up Slytherin on these quizzes, including Pottermore, but at least our common room has a giant squid and nice leather couches.