My two cents: being a 30 something woman with a career, money and no kids in the Mexican-American community is very hard. Most women my age have kids, some of them have teenagers, one has grandchildren. They can’t stop themselves from telling me that I’ll probably won’t be able to get pregnant and if I do my body…

No, she’s a witch, and she’s in the same coven as Bianca Lawson, who has been playing a teenager for LITERALLY 20 YEARS.

I have mixed feelings about her comment. And I wonder if it’s taken out of context? I mean, she’s 42 now so that’s sort of just biology happening. It’s ok if she chose not to have kids when she was younger. There are other ways to have kids i.e. adoption.

I think the general rule is tip according to regular price. But sometimes restaurants make that unknowable. Ask your server maybe?I have seen some places show the regular price to the tab during happy hours for that purpose.

o god yes! isn’t there some sort of browser plugin to block all miley tongue-related imagery? please!

I haven’t had a real period since I got pregnant in 2007. Is it weird not having a period? No. Do I miss it at all? No. Am I afraid I’m pregnant? No. Am I worried that things are getting all “blocked up” down there? (???) No.

She’s not acting like a nice product. Be nicer, product! Shows of humanity will be deducted from your final score.

One of my favorite Tumblr posts is someone saying something about how great it would be if they eventually made a picture about Leo’s life and the actor playing Leo won the Oscar for it.

its 3 6 Mafia

It is a common trick by alcoholics when they drink in front of people who know they have a drinking problem. Because apparently they think you won’t notice them going from sober to drunk.

Quick question: who puts vodka in a water bottle and carries it around? This dude has different hydration needs.

Does she ever explain how she posts her blogs in her device-free home? I honestly couldn't finish her article because I was feeling stabby (and I'm a historian with an undue fondness for the period).

Tampons FTW! PBS used to have a series where a family was picked to live in an old home restored to its old self - Victorian House, Manor House, etc. In the Victorian House, there was a family living Victorian style and I remember the daughters lamenting the fact that they couldn’t go swimming, as they were getting…

Reliable flush toilets. Never forget the reliable flush toilets. I notice (unless I read carelessly, which is possible as it gave me a powerful urge to smack both the author and her husband for their extreme preciousness) that she does not mention whether she and her husband are shitting in chamber pots, which would…

This is one of many reasons I roll my eyes at women who have raging ladyboners over Pride and Prejudice. Slightly earlier era, similar kinds of social, medical, and political issues that seem to get glossed over.

Louis CK jokes about how only white people love the idea of time travel. Black people wouldn’t want to travel to the past - there’s nothing there for them!

I used to tell my grandma I thought it would be so amazing growing up on a farm in the 1920’s like she did, wearing sunbonnets and riding in wagons and sewing her own clothes and she’d just look at me like I was crazy and say “but I have air conditioning now, dear.”

Preach. A neighbor once did the whole “If you could live in another time, when would it be?” question as an ice breaker. Predictably, he (of course, he) said he would want to go to the 1920s. I bit my tongue to keep from asking if he meant pre or post October 1929. Obviously he wants to go to fictional Gatsby 1920s. I…

No, I think you’re just, you know, in touch with reality. There is no other time period that would be better to live in, for women at least. It’s like that Louis CK joke - white men can go to ANY time period and be like “Woo fun!” but it will suck tremendously for literally everyone else.

Maybe I’m just not a romantic, but there’s no time period I’d rather live in than this one. Or maybe the future. But right now we have disposable tampons, birth control, antibiotics, air conditioning, divorce laws, safe abortions (where available) and surviveable c-sections. I’m a cynic and I bitch a lot about what…