So sorry to hear that. And your niece's cats...how old is she? Poor thing. We had a fire in October, it sucked.

Feminist housework rant a coming. This didn't even have to do with Christmas overload. Please tell me I'm not crazy that I got pissed off at.this.

Same. Co-signed. You are me.

For a .minute there I thought the woman in the old days romance was African American? She looks like Jennifer Beals in Devil With a Blue Dress. That would .be interesting. But I'll wait for other people to pay to see the movie. If young Alan Alda is dating a black woman in 1940, I will see it.

Ass Effect 2

Unless it's new yto you. Everyone has that first time they read Feminine Mystique. I f you are related to women who live this way, and expect you to .do .so .too, reading something like this can be so liberating. It's not old news if you are policed and criticized to this standard, by people in your family, every…

I think doing what makes you happy is good, obvs, but there is definitely a subculture of .women who sort of .police other women's entertaining and homemaking with the standard of If YouArent Miserable And Exhausted You Arent Doing it Right. I'm relationship d to women who can only talk about Xmas and weddings in…

Agree 100%. Manufactured holiday/entertaining stress is my personal feminist cause. I'm lucky because my husband loves Xmas entertaining and does a lot of.the cooking and decorating. So does my brother, and my parents love takeout and hate crafts and love watching tv.

YYes yes yes

Oklahoma is the Florida of being North of Texas.

She learned to .read from early 1950s women's magazines and she is already. So. Tired. Of.being.a.woman.

what are the green half circles in either side if the cherries? Are they olives? I bet they are olives.

I was just trying to figure out what is she wearing in that picture. Like actually what.

Sadly that was my first thought. :-(

if any good .comes of this, I hope it will be to highlight the fact that people who commit domestic violence are dangerous criminals, who pose a thhret to society at large. Ariel Castro, George Zimmerman, this person...domestic violence isn't some private tragedy that only affects other people. And that rapists are…

Totes perf. Will do.

Yes. As a n old married person with kids who is dreading holiday parties, yes.

Adultosaur was there. She must have been taking the pix.

This is Chaucerian.

I can't blame young people .too much, if they don't know they don't know, about how much you have to pee when preggo. But as you say old .people usually know.