One of my relatives had one of those. But the parents wanted to be surprised by the gender too, so they have the doctor write the baby’s gender on a piece of paper and stick it in a sealed envelope. They give the sealed envelope to a bakery, pre-order a cake for the party, tell the bakery to open the envelope and use…

Uggh yes. I actually had to tell people, “We’re trying to go gender-neutral because WHAT IF THE NEXT KID IS A BOY?” in order to convince them not to plaster my house in pink shit. Not just, “Hey, maybe we can chill on forcing gender norms upon her from day 1 maybe?”

This makes me actually want to have a kid and not find out the sex in advance, forcing my inlaws to buy green and yellow toys, wood blocks and books and outdoorsy things that any kid could enjoy. I’m sure that’s a dreamworld though, and they’d find some way to make it hell.

We had to do this with our middle child, who is severely allergic to peanuts. It required a lot of consciousness raising among the school staff and other parents, and it definitely ruffled some feathers among parents who thought it was their god-given right to send peanut-butter snacks into the classroom if they…

That karate anecdote really hit home for me. Karate was my life from ages 10-16, when I finally got my black belt. However, once thrown into class with the other black belts, most of whom were men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, I quit within six months. Why? Because they made inappropriate and sexist remarks about my…

And as a mixed raced child who had a white mother who took every single racial and sexist battle - and won them, I’ll say: the exhaustion is worth it.

When my son was in kindergarten, I consistently spoke up as the parent of a kid with autism, bringing those issues into conversations, and I worried that it would mark me as the Weird Mom, but after a couple of years I saw attitudes changing among the parents.

Need to see a chicken & waffles version.

It’s not in my vocabulary

For whatever reason, I wouldn’t be shocked to learn he’s never said the word vagina.

Thought

The scary thing is, for Trump’s supporters this kind of behavior is considered admirable as he’s “sticking it to the PC police.” The more offensive he is, the more his fans adore him.

Modesty

Solvency

“That is not the worst thing that could be said. But I never said it. It’s not in my vocabulary.”

I’d be more shocked if Trump wasn’t sexually harassing female staffers.

There’s going to be so many crying pissbabies in here, but fuck it.

In a similar but unrelated note, I now bump into men who walk right into my path instead of moving to the side as we pass on narrow sidewalks.

I abhor murder. But if another animal is annoying the living crap out of you and your country doesn’t let you, a shark, have a gun - by all means, eat that animal.