I think asking an anxious new parent if they “have the guts” to take on a challenging parenting technique is, by definition, being an asshole. The only adequate response to any pediatrician who asks such a thing is, “No. I’m a pussy. Now show me some empirical evidence of what is best for my child.”

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Nah.

I have the opposite problem. My husband is the one who leaves things open. I'm the one giving him crankyface and asking him to please put the cap back on toothpaste when he's done.

Christian women are not passive recipients of their religion, they are very much active participants.

Causing damage and having a lack of foresight is pretty universal.

I'm an atheist. This is not a defensive comment because I feel attacked. This is a reminder that the faith of others is complex, multifaceted, both personal and political, and is intertwined in many different ways with a person's life. It's never as simple as "the church says birth control is a sin and I don't believe…

About the only time I see this phenomenon being discussed in popular culture-albeit obliquely— is in horror movies, one of the biggest arbiters of our fears in modern times.

Hah! At my old church, there were several young, good looking, single male pastors on the staff, and evidently things had gotten to a point where it was serious enough for our pastor to say (in each of the seven services he took across a weekend) "Girls, stop believing that God has told you that you will marry these…

SHE BE ROCKIN CHINCHILLA COATS IF I LET YOU GO!!!!

Tree of Life blew my mind. I sat there in silence, staring with my mouth agape for the entire movie while my 40 (I was in college!) went untouched and warm.

She was a Responsible Gun Owner™ right up until that point. Now she isn't. So there is no reason to pretend this sort of thing happens to Responsible Gun Owners™, because she stopped being one that instant.

I'm dying at "fresh wailing mandrakes"

Seriously. In a country with basically no paid maternity leave, this guy gets a 14-month paid vacation as a reward for criminal activity. The mind, it boggles.

I dont have a caption. I would just like to say that I would totally do Christoph Waltz. 10/10 would bang.

I just... ya'll I dig him. But this is

I am a geek because my Bluebeard image...

Love on.

"Also, "Unapologetic Bitch," produced by Diplo, sounds like a seven-year-old Santigold track."

Lesbian exMormon here. My Mormon credentials consist of a storied pioneer heritage on my paternal AND maternal sides (now including famous polygamists!), all the youth awards you get for being a good little Mormon girl, TWO degrees from Brigham Young University, and much, much more! I came out to my (very very…