I had a slightly similar thought. I do not have kids yet, but I am already training my husband to brush and braid my hair. Partly because it's very long and I get tired halfway through it, but also because, someday, I may be sick in bed while some curly-haired kid needs a brush before school. He needs to know how…

I think there's a few things going on. One is the general lack of regulation over a relatively new industry. I believe companies lie about the pollution problems created by fracking, and we will not get better regulations until scientists waste a great deal of time and money proving that the companies are lying. …

There's this little issue of local tap water in some towns becoming flammable after the fracking operations start nearby. Any discussion of fracking that doesn't seriously address the environmental concerns is disingenuous at best. They also are fond of saying that their methane emissions are tiny, which might be an…

On one hand, yeah, they're doctors, they should deal. On the other, JD has the emotional maturity of a Labrador puppy most days.

WoT starts out as fairly classic, awesome fantasy. Jordan gets a cookie for having a lot of female characters (with a lot of tangible social/political/physical power), but only one cookie because he didn't write them very well. It starts to drag in the middle to the point where an entire book is pretty much just a…

Some people - especially old people - cannot relate to others not like them. It probably doesn't even occur to them that you live differently (which probably means that they think you're a good person). They're truly clueless.

Oh, yes, the Netflix genre mash-up. You watched a Disney movie and Judge Dredd; therefore you must like violent, gritty movies made for 10-year-olds. I am also amused that, under "because you watched The Avengers", it suggests a dozen different animated TV series, other sci-fi, Mythbusters(?), and wrestling(??), but…

She was threatening significant physical harm and claimed in her profile to have a history of screwing people over and getting away with it. You've still got to be insane. There's gotta be other women out there.

That's what I thought, until the one guy who was still talking to her after she said she wanted to pull his teeth out. I don't think I'd agree to meet someone, for any reason, even once, if I might be attacked and given impromptu dental work.

I've got a good friend who has so many medical problems that she avoids the stairs to my apartment, cannot exercise at all, spends several days a month too tired or sick to get anything done, and needs her general practitioner doctor to specialize in internal medicine and a couple of other things.

Several acres of land, dogs, cats, alpacas, and a great rural view, all within my budget and conveniently located to grocery stores and other shopping. But still in the middle of nowhere. And a softball team to coach. A yarn store next door. A Subaru and a Prius.

Yeah, the idea of "city" police existing in Storrs, made me snort. There's a joke about Storrs, that it used to be called Storr but then they added another one. A lot of state universities are big enough that the campus police are the "real" police.

To be honest, this was part of the reason I changed my name. My (totally awesome) mother did not change her name, and I witnessed the countless minor inconveniences that caused. I preferred that we all have the same name, and the easiest way was for me to adopt my husband's nice-sounding last name. For me, it was…

No, but on another article I read about this last week, the concern was mentioned that she could get kicked out of her religious foster home for being pregnant. I'm sure it's really easy for a homeless teenage pregnant girl with a history of being abused and neglected to figure out how to find a responsible family…

Preach. In an environment where people lift things for a living, nobody in their right mind would voluntarily carry 20+ pounds in front of their chest and level with their armpits.

I wouldn't know, but are you familiar with how they advertise themselves? "Costumed interpreter" to me suggests anything from a untrained reenactor playing dress-up to a museum worker portraying a serious and carefully researched first-person impression. I used the phrase "living history institution" deliberately…

Thank you! I was just going to say that. If your family's men can't 'unsee' images of women and don't 'linger over sexy images', then what the FUCK is your husband doing while you are on your witch-hunt?

I was actually thinking about Williamsburg; I've been there recently, and they had an event/program on the schedule (which I didn't have an opportunity to see) about enslaved people that is listed as "not suitable for young children." I suspect there's a little frank truth in their presentation.

I wonder a little about that. I mean, a responsible living history institution does want to open this can of worms and have discussions of slavery in their programming and presentation (of course, some do want to sugar-coat it). But first, you have to find people who want a job pretending to be a slave all day. …

Protip: Women lecturing women about what we should wear, how we should behave, and generally how we should live our lives is just as fucking annoying and harmful as men doing the same.