I feel like this is kinda relevant, though it uh... has nothing to do with cancer awareness.

I'm a rural person who as a rule doesn't have a lot of patience for fetishizing rural lifestyles, and yeah, this made me cry.

This is it. The most privileged article ever published on Jezebel. You did it guys. WE did it.

:muffled applause:

This is the problem: they weren't evil. They were humans with common character traits exposed to a particular kind of stimulus.

I was a latchkey kid myself. My mom worked but it was my stepfather who was her primary interest/concern. She'll tell you kids weren't her "thing".

Whenever someone equates getting married = reception halls! save the dates! big money! Oh MY!, I WANT TO SCREAM.

I think I might be old because all I could think of how hard it would be for her to get another job after she used office resources to make a video where she trashes her job and quits and then posts it online. Am I too sensible for this?

This example renders my most egregiously rage inducing episode is, by comparison. (I don't seem to get rage about it, when it happens professionally, because I tend to "bitch up" and demonstrate my experience that led to the authority I have...) I'll share anyway.

Gross. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope the men working with you are learning from and disturbed by this, and not simply hoping to perpetuate and profit from it as their own careers grow.

Aaaah reminds me of my freshman experience at McGill! Super fun chants during Frosh like "No means Yes! Yes means Anal!" Good times!!

So, you were a little asshole who got out assholed by another kid. How about you just cut off contact with her and move on with your life?

Excuse me? No one else is raising my kid but myself and my husband. Just because a child goes to daycare does not mean the parents do not raise the child. Where are you getting this ridiculous idea? We are the ones still responsible for educating, feeding, clothing, and teaching my child.

I always think about this. It's one of the areas I think I'm a bad feminist because of. I have a PhD in a science field. I worked my ass off for it. I think when women get PhD's and have no intention of ever working in their field, they wasted a spot that someone who actually wanted a fucking job could have had,…

And this is pretty much what people mean by the idea that affluence is killing us. What you see as the only fun option is really something that most people can't afford and shouldn't try to pull off.

It's not "righteousness" to resent being asked to fund other people's bad ideas, especially when they can perfectly well afford them themselves.

Wow! That is super gutsy, and I want to be friends with that woman!

Completely and totally agree. Everyone gets a celebration, not just marrieds and it's when you actually truly don't have anything that you need it. I mean, getting nicer towels when you get married, I'm sure is lovely. But you have zero when you are starting out.

I don't understand why this article is creating some kind of dichotomy that at a wedding you either get all gifts or all cash. Even if you create a registry and ask for actual gifts, cash is always still an option that a lot of people exercise, especially if they know the couple is just starting out, or one of them…

Here's my revolutionary suggestion: ban wedding registries once and for all.