Identifying things as being for boys or for girls is a normal part of development, but I think it is good to resist anyway. My mantra is “There’s no such thing as girl stuff and boy stuff, there’s just stuff you like and stuff you don’t like.”

I once saw a child sneeze in a store. I was about to say “Bless you” when his father slapped his hard across his face and said “COVER YOUR MOUTH YOU’RE SPREADING GERMS.” That made me cry.

My 3yo son was on a playground castle and declared himself the queen. Which lead to a month’s-long campaign by a 4yo in an older class to call him gay. I tried to have polite words with the mother, but it turned out she was super homophobic. The convo was easier with 3 because he has a gay uncle and kids are usually…

Fuck im 30 and still dealing with this. My dad doesn’t realize he’s doing it but he puts me down whenever my “alternative lifestyle” of being a atheist democrat comes up.

Let’s take a moment to remember the 70's Lego letter

A friend just this morning told me about a dad at Disney World who was refusing to buy his kid a keychain because it “was a girl keychain.” When he saw the look she gave him he added “plus you don’t even have keys.”

January Jones on raising a child without a partner: “Xander has a lot of bro time with the neighbor dads and my dad, who is super young. It’s good to have strong women around a man to teach him to respect women...He doesn’t have a male person saying ‘don’t cry’ or ‘you throw like a girl.’ All those s–tty things…

Is this from Wishful Drinking? My mom gave me that book to read when I was a teenager. She never offered to watch me have sex to give tips, but it wouldn’t have been too surprising.

I have this weird mix of stories like yours and the crazy closeness of these two. My mom can say some of the bitchiest, most self-involved shit in the world. But we’re ridiculously close. I’m 36 and she came over on Christmas Eve to watch Hallmark movies in bed with me.

Holy shit, that passage.

Love the term vaguebooking. A lot of my fb friends from my hometown post long winded grievances about friends not supporting them then when said friends respond saying “Im literally always there for you” the poster responds “not talking about you lol Im fine!” it is amazing.

I know they found some kind of sense of peace, but man are there a lot of stories of Debbie Reynolds being a raging narcissist (and whatever the fuck the above is) and Carrie Fisher dealing with the fall out.

I’m sorry for your loss.

I don’t have that friend, but I have plenty of acquaintances I keep on Facebook solely because their relationship drama is so excessive and so good.

This made me cry, my mom was the only person who understood me and my MI, and I just lost her this past May.

Oh, I want mine too!!! I was sick last week and all I wanted was my Mom.

Yes, because all LGBT relationships are drama free and no gay people are attention seekers. Those are 100% straight people things.

You just reminded me of a gal who posted that nonsense meme/story about the husband who was drifting away from his wife & wants a divorce but she asks him to carry her over the threshold every day and then he realizes that he still loves her and then she dies because she of course has cancer.

MommaKris probably is ready to turn off the money spigot.

Have you tried having 5 people chant your spell through autotune?