This look of horror is perfect.

It's because you committed the ultimate transgression - to be a woman (who exists solely for the pleasure of consumption by a white male audience) who does not strive, or otherwise fails to meet the limited qualifications for female attractiveness by a man. This can be achieved by being old, fat, trans, or obviously…

I have a lot of thoughts on this, as I'm currently in the midst of adapting some lesser-known fairy tales in the hopes of developing an illustrated children's series. I'm a bit of a purist - I love a lot of the language and the common tropes that connect these stories, and I try to honor them. I also love how…

Forget about the thigh gap. It's All. About. Pyramid Head.

Like a blizzard? "Let it snooowwww...."

You know how sometimes mean kids in the lunch room will see cottage cheese or tuna fish in someone's lunch will make a whole show of saying, "ieeeew, how can you eat that?!" and then the recipient of the comment quietly puts away the food and spends the rest of the day in a stew of hunger and shame and never wants to…

Actually I got married almost a decade ago, so I don't really need any advice. It went great, we did what was important to us and skipped what wasn't and that was that. I also hesitated when I wrote "traditional Western wedding" because not only is there a lot of variation, but there's also plenty that seems…

Unless you happen to be planning an Indian wedding. In which case, no matter what you do there will be at least 400 guests and nothing about that is simple.

Word. I had over 400 guests at my wedding. Buffet saves big time. And we had the best wedding food ever.

that should be "time isn't necessarily kinder"

After three children sucked all of the life out of my formerly adorable B's, I now have two sad, deflated AAs. They're not "saggy" since there's really nothing to sag, but isn't necessarily kinder to the smaller sisters.

Yup. I got pretty fuzzy when I was pregnant. Anyway, I'll take a soft down over stubble any day.

Her charge is a misdemeanor. Not even a sex crime. Fucking horrible.

All my "rich-people-are-just-better" dog whistles were going off when I read this article. Did the authors of this study also determine that children with parents who go out for frequent expensive meals or attend yoga have "better" (behaved) children? Cause I'm not sure self-indulgent rich white ladies have enough to…

And sometimes people are just shitty child-haters. I go above and beyond to make sure my kids are quiet and well-behaved on flights. I come prepared with books and snacks and quiet activities. My kids are experienced travelers, who are by in large really freaking excellent on flights. They can get through security…

I've started wearing and really like clothes from Beyond Yoga - they're made in the US, and thus far have held up beautifully. http://www.beyondyoga.com/

I have one of those - my almost 5 year-old. He was sick all last week and when he woke up still coughing Halloween morning he came out of his room, trying to smile through his tears to say, "Well, I'm still sick, so I guess I can't go trick-or-treating today," as his little voice broke (we went anyway - he wasn't…

My kids (2.5, 4.5, and 7) each get to pick one show, so even if they all watch all three, at 22 min/show, that's not much more than an hour a day. This way they feel like it's all "fair" and they have some control, but it stays pretty limited. We have some basic rules - no TV in the morning before school, and…

My husband's family is Indian, and there was also no public kissing in our wedding ceremony - even in his fairly liberal, pretty Americanized community it's seen as being in poor taste. I remember being pretty annoyed by the culturally oblivious photographers who kept trying to get us to kiss. Honestly, I'm not that…

Nope. Had home births. Lots of pooping in the toilet in early labor, so by the time I was pushing (which is when most women have accidental poos), there was nothing left.