Well that’s because women shouldn’t be working anyway! Especially mothers! Creating a hostile working environment for breastfeeding mothers will help families by pushing women back into the home where they belong! (/s, obvs)

Someone once argued with me that lactating women shouldn’t have any objections to pumping in bathrooms because “milk is just a bodily secretion like urine or poop anyway.” I was a decade away from motherhood at that point, but I still wanted to mix poop in his cereal and see if he continued to believe that milk and…

It’s super easy (and cheap) to make your own oat milk, though!

It’s Lamott paraphrasing her priest friend — “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

I don’t have any negative associations with either bread or GBBO, so it’s all good :)

My “unhealthy” (because“overweight”) friend can easily run ten miles in one go, and has a resting heart rate that’s half of mine — yet because I’m skinny, no one stops me and tells me to “get healthy.”

It’s not just fat bodies that are demonized — it’s any deviation from the Victoria’s Secret model norm. I’m a straight size, but my postpartum stomach looks like overproofed yeasted dough that’s been punched down by an enthusiastic GBBO baker and I have stretch marks that line my torso from the back of my flanks all…

No. Plenty of people who were not abused choose to abuse children, and plenty of people who were abused choose not to abuse children.

I’m still nursing, and trying to clothe this body is bullshit. My body keeps changing shape and size and has to provide frequent access to a tiny person and is required to somehow also look stylish in public? Ugh.

Bless you. Satin and velvet are the weave, and those weaving patterns can be applied to any fiber (natural or synthetic) that can withstand the process.

The Bennets were either poorish for gentility or really crappy at money management (or both); iirc, the girls were each to live on about $50 per year upon their mother’s death, thanks exclusively to Mrs. Bennet’s inherited investments. Either there wasn’t enough financial wiggle room in the Bennet annuity to…

The Bennetts were on the poorer side of respectable gentility — they had an entailment which brought in enough money for the family to live on, but not nearly enough to provide the girls with a decent dowry. Economically-superior members of their same social class had no problem looking down on them. If the girls…

If a man exposed himself in public, jumped on me, licked my face, kicked me in the crotch, and thought he was justified because I was loud in public about my religious (well, athiest) beliefs?

I secretly like the “guess the baby food flavor” game, because I’d always been curious about how they taste (but not curious enough to buy random jars of baby food for my own consumption).

My boss asked me out on a date. He requested we meet up at the house he co-owned with other unmarried guys. It wasn’t until after I’d agreed that he mentioned he lived in a different city, a full one-hour drive from my own place. (Gas prices had recently jumped to $4 per gallon, so the round-trip was more than my…

Definitely see a therapist.

If you haven’t already — get thee to a Department of Workforce Service office, stat! The services they offer differ by state, but they’ll likely be up-to-date on what sorts of insurance you’ll be able to hop onto (Medicaid? Marketplace?), can help you figure out what benefits you’re eligible for (SNAP?), may be able…

I have several family members who either had multiple miscarriages before having kids or multiple miscarriages between kids. (And most of them ended up with a LOT of kids. Like ... seven.) 

The way I see it, you are already acting out of love for a (basically-a-stranger) human right now by taking care of his most immediate needs — food, shelter, education — when you were not expecting to. You don’t appear to feel any animosity or resentment towards him, and are providing safety and stability.

I adore my nieces and nephews, and I am capable of being an intensely-awesome aunt ... for an hour, tops. Treasure hunt with ornate map and tricksy clues and a real treasure chest filled with pennies and treats along the way? Tea party with gold-trimmed invites and real china and elegant petit fours? “Spa night” with…