Why? My husband is Indian and my MIL gets the serious warm fuzzies when I put a bindi on. I used to wear one all the time when I was newly married and more concerned with pleasing my husband's fam, but now I mostly just wear it when I'm dressed in Indian clothes for functions (which I also get props for - all the…

Cutest is strong - my spawn are chock-full of charming, lisped truisms and off-beat observations. It helps balance out the moments when 2 out of 3 of them are pooping in their own pants. But it was pretty good.

I was one of those jerks who could still wear my pre-pregnancy jeans while gestating all three of my kids (I mean, I couldn't button them, but I could hide that with a long enough top), and I'm happy to report that I do not look or feel like cottage cheese. My boobs may be ruined, but other than that my body is more…

I was pregnant with my second and getting dressed for a party while my then two-year-old sat on the bed and watched. As I pulled a pair of patterned tights over my 8-months-pregnant belly, his eyes widened and he said, "You look like a beautiful egg!"

I like to think that if my husband came out as trans, we would be able to make it work (and I too value my sex life very much). Marriage (and sex) is about more than genitals. In any event, many trans men and women opt not to have bottom surgery, which is costly, usually not covered by insurance, and still an…

Actually, people are starting to say this.

Wait, I'm confused. If 16% of young women and 16% of older women are always tired, then how is it 15% of all women? Or are women over 64 just HELLA sprightly?

Hahahahaha! "TWINS! Ooooohh.. Oh no.."

I had a friend (whom I later parted ways with for unrelated reasons) who did a lotus birth. It seemed emblematic of her constant grasping for some sort of ritualized connection. I live in a cultural vacuum! Let's make one up and pretend it's ancient/engage in bizarre cultural cherry picking because indigenous people…

Thanks! There are some exercises I do that seem to help a bit, at least temporarily, but nothing I've found that closes the gap fully and permanently besides surgery. I do fantasize about time and money to do an intensive one-on-one targeted pilates program and see if I can make more permanent progress, but that's…

I dunno. I went bra-less all the time when I was younger, but now that years of nursing babies has made my nipples extremely protuberant at all times (and sometimes, if I'm not careful how I aim them when I get dressed, they will charmingly point in different directions), I'm a lot more self conscious. Especially,…

I'm pretty sure that what turned my lovely, buoyant B's into deflated barely A's was breastfeeding three children for about five years total, not wearing a bra (in fact I usually went without in my late teens/early twenties). The upside is: despite my lack of jiggly breastflesh, I now need a bra forever more to keep…

DUDE. I had two different people congratulate me on my non-existent pregnancy last month! Even though I'm an athletic size 2ish (plus or minus hobbitty second breakfasts, beer, and my running schedule), my abdominal muscles separated during my pregnancy with my third (and LAST, thanks to hubby's awesome vasectomy)…

Ha! I got catcalled into the sixth month of my first pregnancy. Fortunately, the actual presence of my small children seems to shame most people into treating me like an actual human (or just ignoring me completely) these days. It's only on the rare occasions that I'm out alone that it rears its ugly head again.

The harassment definitely started at around 13 (and I always looked VERY young - even when I was a college kid in NYC people used to try to give me money because I looked like an adolescent runaway.. or maybe it was all the holes in my jeans..), and continued right up into my mid-twenties, ending suddenly when I was…

I couldn't help but notice that this study focused on how men rated their own appeal, not how external observers might rate it. It's interesting that the author takes the conclusion of the study - regarding how new fathers feel about themselves - and draws a completely unscientific conclusion about how the rest of…

My almost 2-year-old daughter declared as I scrolled past this, "That cat needs us!" She then demanded that we watch it for almost a full minute.

I like my gluten and have no problem with it, though I do think people should eat a more diverse array of grains in general. But isn't the demand for gluten-free products (in part instigated by this trend) ultimately beneficial for you? I mean, I know you don't want to be associated with weird, hypochondriac health…

If you don't like your current job, change jobs. Don't just talk smack about people who decided to do something else.

I didn't have substantially more free time with just one kid, we just did more stuff - made it to storytime and the aquarium more often, had time to sit on the floor and play with trucks instead of constantly racing from activity to activity, etc. I've noticed kids' needs seem to expand to fill every bit of time and…