Yeah, that seems to be true. So they showed me nothing about how his acedmics, the campus and broader technical community shaped him. Just him and his guy friends hanging out in a dorm and giving themselves a nickname.

To be clear, it’s surprising they included these women at all. It made it easy for me to show that their narrative is sexist. As a woman in technology, I can speak to the fact that we (and other underrepresented groups) are usually present, but the media generally sticks to the boys club unless they are explicitly…

totally true — if you read the article they mention that the president of a club all these guys belong to (NU Hacks) is a woman. So, wired just didn’t feel like profiling a woman.

If you actually read the article, they talk about a club “NU Hacks” that has two women, including the president. Yet they chose to profile and picture only a group of boys for their article. So they had an opportunity to portray some diversity but instead decided to talk up a group of friends. This is why women are…

I don’t have prolapse but I’m approaching 2 years post-partum with #2 and realizing that things just aren’t right. With #1, it took awhile, but by this point I felt like I had reached the new normal. I understand your feelings — for me it partly has to do with how terrible I have been about my own health since…

Polish Catholic family here. I think John Paul II would be about #5 on that list. Favorite exclamation in my family growing up when something was very obvious was “Is the pope Polish?” One of my uncle’s had a girlfriend once that responded by saying “I don’t think so...”
We never saw her again...

I went through a similar evolution — my almost 5 y/o now wears dresses or skirts every day. I don’t fight her on style or matching, just focus on comfort (will you be cold in that?) and preserving special items (1-2 special occasion dresses and one pair of fancy shoes). Oh, and we do have a rule about wearing…

my daughter became instant friends with two other girls when they all started preschool two years ago. all my attempts to arrange playdates failed, while their parents hang out on weekends and they take turns hiring a baby sitter for the early release days. i don’t even think they’re awful, it’s just one of those…

I got invited to a superbowl party by one of my swim team friends. I don’t even like football, but I didn’t have any better plans. Then I ended up trapped in a basement while they were praying, including a very specific prayer for a (fellow Unitarian/atheist) family friend. And I tried to go to the bathroom, but they…

Our first attempt at pantless weekend and potty training resulted in lots of puddles and my pregnant ass giving up. A week after her brother was born, my daughter announced diapers were for babies. My husband and I enthusiastically agreed and bought her $30 of whatever underwear she wanted. This all worked well except…

little kids have the best resting bitch face.

i have hungry ballerina pics from my daughter’s first halloween (she had a tutu, ballet shoes and a bow as big as her head). for my son, i went for a tiger costume that was basically pjs with a hood. however, your angry pumpkin is perfect.

this! i told my daughter to stop doing this after a little poop ball that had been wedged between her butt cheeks ended up on the bathmat...

did you find the whole “we’re never getting older” chorus depressing? shit, i am older. at the same time, i also feel so relieved that i’m old enough to not feel the least bit like i should be living that life?

Wellbutrin was magical for me. I was 3 months post-hopitalization when I had a horrible allergic reaction (hives, ER visit and 4 anti-histimines) and had to stop taking it. However, it turned out that it was the generic (manufactured by Teva) I was reacting to, most likely a dye they use, so I (carefully) went back on…

My daughter slept on the floor for 3 months. She was not even 2 and had transitioned fairly easily to a toddler bed 3 or 4 months prior... and one night wouldn’t get in bed and fell asleep on the floor. We shrugged and figured it was a 1 night thing. 3 months later after setting up multiple beds every night (maybe…

I feel for this woman — parenting is basically a bazillion decisions where every single one is simultaneously important and meaningless.

it also discounts how much of hiring in the bay area depends on your connections -- speaking as a woman working in tech in the bay area.

My 4 year-old city kid got to spend a week at the lake with my parents and experience fishing, smores, kayaking and getting out of the lake for thunderstorms.

she was — it was very scary for all of us but she didn’t even have a bruise. she wanted the ipad I had taken away and put up there... i try not to put things on top of the dresser but even if i do, she deploys a step stool (kept in the bathroom for hand washing) instead.