100%. “Mutton dressed as lamb” is right up there with “shrill” and “hysterical” when it comes to words and expressions virtually never applied to men.

The biggest changes in the way I dress came in the last year and a half. Pandemic + first kid in my early forties has shifted my aesthetic priorities, for sure. But no, I am not cutting off all of my hair and getting the “mom bob” (not that there’s anything wrong with that — it would probably make my life a lot easier…

All this time I thought you were a dude.

Head of the Class wasn’t on Nickelodeon. It was on ABC. I’m Canadian — we had YTV, though, which probably carried a lot of the Nickelodeon shows. And I believe we originated You Can’t Do That On Television.  

I guess if you live somewhere with no waves…

It’s a foil. 

I’ll admit it, I looked up the song on Spotify, which led me to Rebbie Jackson’s “Centipede,” a far superior track which really does slap, and which I hadn’t heard since I was a child.

This is how you know I’m Gen X (or Xennial for the five people who use that expression). The only thing I know about that guy is…Dennis! I hope Arvid, Janice, and Jawaharlal turned out not to be assholes at least.

A third time? Wrap it up, dude. 

Bringing up your kid’s eating disorder is just a shitty thing to do, period. 

I’m Ashkenazi Jewish, and if I had decided to have a baby shower, my family would have been horrified. Of course, COVID happened so I couldn’t have had one even had I wanted one, but it’s a definite no-no in my culture. 

I looked it up, and yes, it seems she “only” did about 250 shows over a four-year-period. I still maintain that if you can do that kind of work — live performance is not exactly an office job; you need that time off — you can decide whether you want to ditch the IUD.

“The control he had to hurt his own daughter, he loved it. I worked seven days a week ... it was like sex trafficking. I didn’t have a credit card, cash or my passport.”

Kim and Kanye’s hand-me-down, no less. 

In the black (I think?), but I still couldn’t bookmark.

This doesn’t work for me. Sigh. So frustrating. I hate to think people think I’m ignoring them. 

It makes me reluctant to respond to someone else’s comment. What’s the point? Is it that expensive to invest in an improved user experience? 

Hey Kinja! Why aren’t you letting me see all the responses to my comment? They are in my notifications, but they don’t even show up in the greys.

Thank you for this breakdown! I wish the article had delved into more of the business side of things. 

(Just a heads up that I saw that you responded to my comment, but Kinja won’t let me read it!)