I don't know, I think there is something empowering in there about "feminizing" and popularizing these hyper-masculine brands to suit women. You're right, there should be more original and decent female superheroes, but I can't take offense to women appropriating masculine products in the meantime.

I try to do the same for my own daughter without pushing my own expectations onto her. Like you, I didn't play with dolls and rarely with "girl" gendered toys at all. I preferred to play with my brother, and my parents didn't have the kind of money to buy two different versions of the same thing, anyway. Most of the…

I'm guessing here, but my feeling would be because of the sadly familiar cycle of domestic abuse.

Thanks for the warning. I'm not going to even go over there.

As a funny anecdote, when I was a child my brother and I both played baseball. My brother would pick flowers in the outfield; I ran down another player because he was standing in the baseline.

I thought the same. When I was pregnant, I would sometimes look at pregnancy forums and see so many women saying "I'm so glad I'm having a girl! We can do girly things together!" and the opposite "What do I do with a boy? I don't know how to do boy stuff. I'm not an outdoors/sports person." It struck me as incredibly…

I think what it boils down to is that gifts are sentimental. Any decent person does not reflect upon how much a gift is worth or how it was acquired. All that matters is that a gift pleases its recipient. In your case, that is a box of groceries and sundries or a cleaned car in a snow storm (and for the record, I…

Not necessarily. Many couples choose separate finances, but usually that's only when they are each making money. I would have to assume that if one person is making millions and the other very little or nothing at all, their finances would be at least partially combined. Enough that the stay-at-home person could buy a…

Me too. I don't know if we'll ever get there, but if staying home is ever possible for me, I'm going to do it. Raising my kids and dedicating my time to art and projects I want to do sounds amazing.

I was actually glad when she and her family started doing reality shows, because I knew it meant she could never ever seriously run for government office ever again.

That's about right, yep.

Orrr she's going to kill Charlie to give herself a step up. Or she's going to knock out Command. We don't know what's in the needle.

I'm pretty sure every single person on this show is showing clear signs of being a sociopath.

I think people's problem with Quinn is very similar to Skyler White on Breaking Bad. She's not the main character and although she may be acting very reasonably (or at least, realistically), her actions sometimes negatively effect the main character. That makes her an impediment to the "hero" (who may very well be an…

That, plus being declothed is incredibly demoralizing.

Oh yes, I know this. I guess what I am saying is that is a silly way to feel. People might be very particular about the funding of a gift, but that is the wrong part to focus on. Women have been buying gifts for their husbands with their husband's own earnings for generations, and no one has questioned that it wasn't…

I'm not surprised. It's sort of common sense, isn't it? Someone is taking care of the house, someone is taking care of the money. Both people don't have to worry about the other half of the equation. The problem when the genders are flipped is that generally, it seems men aren't as good at the "house" part yet. So the…

Jewelry? That's a stupid question. If it's a gift, he buys it for her. With the money she makes, but I assume that if one person is staying home, you have combined finances and the money isn't "hers" but "ours" as a family unit. If she just wants a new necklace and it's not a gift, she can buy it herself. I don't see…

Oh no, have you not heard of this yet? It's totally a thing. As is memorializing your pregnant form forever, posting the contents of your womb online, and multiple showers for diapers, subsequent children, pampering the mother only.

I want you to know that every time I scroll past this picture, it literally gives me the shivers. Well done.