My nearly 10 year old boy and I liked it. We were gobsmacked by the weasely Hans, but he'd been saying he thought the other guy was a better fit all along anyway. He totally took it in stride that Anna saved Elsa, and couldn't understand what the big deal was that she saved herself at all. He fully expects women to…

I think the most significant aspect of this movie, and one I haven't seen mentioned, or only obliquely, is that the act of love came from herself. Nobody saved HER, SHE saved someone else. They said an act of love, but the presumption was, based on all the previous movies, that someone would have to love her enough to…

And ironically, it isn't even a religious taboo. Many religions include polygamy, including Chrisitanity! It's just a modern taboo, with no basis in reason whatsoever.

It's not at all impossible to avoid. Don't watch tv. I started to say I couldn't remember the last jewelry ad I saw, but I do. It was on a hotel tv. :P We do have a tv, but we use Roku instead of cable or satellite, which comes with much less advertising.

Ok, I live in a pretty liberal college town in the otherwise conservative Midwest. I belong to a secular homeschool group populated by a fairly high percentage of atheists. So I live in a pretty unusual situation, I guess, but stay home dads are not uncommon, and they are welcome at our events. Even the families who…

I don't like hazelnut. :P but I do mix chocolate syrup with sunflower seed butter. That's tasty!

My son is allergic to eggs and turkey, and I can't have dairy, and we're both gluten free, so out thanksgiving is a little different than normal. This year, we just had a couple if friends over, who both happen to be mostly vegan, so combined with our allergies/intolerances, I just went for a vegan meal.
We had…

Well, it does depend on where in America. I've heard northerners are more like Canadians in this respect, and some friends who are recent implants from Iowa are shoe removers, for a bit of anecdata. :)

I buy men's fleece pajama pants. I'm tall for a girl, and they're the only ones long enough, and they usually have enough room to allow me to wear long underwear under them, and still feel lounge-y. Plus, you can usually find some stupid cartoon character or whatever that makes them fun. I'm wearing Grinch ones…

My family is funny. We used to be typical Americans, wearing our shoes willy nilly, but with the advent of our kid, who was massively strong and not really aware of his peripherals, we started a no shoes in the house rule to save our skin! Guests don't have to, and it's not really a rule per se anymore, but we do it…

That sounds good too!

Man, somehow I missed that colcannon should have bacon. I think my son was allergic to pork when we discovered it, so I may have just left it out and forgotten it was supposed to be there. He can have pork now, so I foresee colcannon proper in our very near future! Thanks!

Mwahahahaha!!!

So much time off. I homeschool my son. The only difference between holidays and normal days is nothing is open, so we're actually trapped at home. :P

Every penguin enclosure I've seen has had them together. They mostly seem to ignore each other.

I'm having a hard time getting past the fact that the three fingers hanging down don't look like they have nails—just taper to a terrifying point.

My kiddo is about to turn 10, and when people were throwing showers for us, I made it clear to all parties that my husband was to be involved, and other men should come too. Not all the men in our lives attended, and the shower for my side of the family only included my husband, because my mom and sister are slaves to…

Eh...I remembered Amazon was a safe enough place to search. Books on the way!

Ok, so I'm homeschooling my son, and we've covered human development, and the birds and bees, if you will, but I kind of didn't take into consideration actual sex ed.... I'm not sure how to find resources for it; googling "sex ed" seems bound to fail...any ideas?

For me, this is not a sexual image. It's two, very connected and loving brothers, one being very protective of the other. I find the appeal in the extremely unusual level of intimacy for two people who are NOT in a sexual relationship. Which, btw, is what I find hot in gay romance: the unusual, and often forbidden or…