ME TOO! Best month by far. Plus spring.

Yeah, I think most sports have the inevitable relationships that start up, especially when you have the added multiples that co-ed sports have (I think ALL sports have this happen, but single gender sports have way less because numbers, less gay people/less willingness to be ‘out’). For fuck sakes, in swimming…

I’m Canadian, and since Vancouver 2010 they’ve just made ice dancing magical for me, where I honestly didn’t really know it existed before. I always end up going down the rabbit hole of their online dances over the years and they all just make you FEEL. Which I believe is genuinely part of their ‘presentation’ scoring…

God, that man is a national treasure. They both are.

Very interesting. In the case of my father he felt like he had MORE control over my mother now that she was imminently having their child, and once I was born had another pawn to use against her. He had been slowly messing with her mind their entire relationship but really ramped it up at that point. (A major part of…

Yup. My father hid his true self from my mom until they were married and she was 8 months pregnant.

This was my ex. His ex-wife and he from what I had been told literally were college sweethearts, graduated, bought a house together, and had the ... I guess we get married now? moment? Thank god they didn’t have kids, and thank god that piece of work is my ex.

Yeah, my best friend and her husband were together 5 years when they got married, and had a rough first 1-2 years. Granted, they had insane life changes RIGHT when they got married (which was partly WHY they got married exactly when they did) as in moved across an ocean, had to adjust to a different culture/language,…

I’m so glad I have my mom for when I eventually get married. She will totally back me if I ever have the ‘cold feet’ or doubts prior to actually going through with it. She wanted to back out of her first wedding but her family pushed her to go through with it so if I ever even looked like I might be not 100% she’d be…

Yup. Same here. I personally try to not delve into the reasons WHY these women wear hijabs, and instead try to focus on the fact that they are CHOOSING (even if that may be because of family or cultural pressures) to wear them. Why make it even harder by limiting their clothing choices or not providing clothing…

Sephora used to have a (in my mind) overly generous return policy. You could return ANYTHING, in ANY CONDITION, WITHOUT A RECEIPT, and they’d give you store credit for the full value. My friend returned my straightener that I’d had for a few years but was seriously dying (would beep/turn off if it wasn’t turned to the…

Yep, I can count the number of things i’ve returned on one hand. It’s only ever been because there was a stain I didn’t notice (within a week of purchase with tags) or because it flat out didn’t work and I hated the product (within a month or so).

I received the HPV vaccine in my teens at the request of my mother. It’s becoming (thankfully) a pretty standard vaccine for teenage girls because anyone can come into contact with HPV and this is a way to help prevent people from contracting it and potentially having it lead to cervical cancer or other more serious…

Yup. As a Canadian, technically the monarchy can pull shit in our legal system, but they choose not to because that would be royally uncool and would destroy the lovely relationship Canadians have with the UK and royal family. I don’t approve of what Bermuda has done but I’d be very upset by the UK stepping in, as for…

Agreed. I’m nearing the life stage of becoming a mother/child-rearing, and one thing I’m becoming acutely aware of is how people speak about and to children of both genders. I’m so sick of people telling only their little boys to stop crying, and constantly buying only the girly toys that are soft and sparkly and…

Yeah, my alma mater had a very active greek society for a Canadian school, and there was definitely one frat in particular (Beta... something) that was known for being predatory and creepy as hell. There was a greek village for the frats, but they were the only house that was part of the frat council that didn’t have…

That makes sense, wasn’t sure since I don’t remember anyone in any of my classes NOT getting one. Though that was before the anti-vaccine wave really got going.

When I was in elementary school they had in-school vaccinations. I vaguely remember there being a permission form from parents, but it honestly might have been an opt-out/notice for parents. This is also Canada, so it was all free* (covered through provincial health care).

Yeeep, when I was 25 one of my good friends became pregnant accidentally. When she told me my reaction (internally) was ‘OMG what are we doing to do? Crap Crap Crap’ before remembering that while we were a little younger than she imagined she’d be having her first kid she was in a long term relationship with the man…

The fact it can be called the largest... means there’s more than just one? meaning there is ONE!? the hell. I live in cowboy Canada and prison rodeo is just... wtf.