I am not the one keeping us apart nor am I angry. Telling the truth while Black always makes people label you as angry or misinformed (as some of these comments show). Black women were forced to create our own march because White women never center our struggles. The same way Black people had to create our own…

My kids are 17 and 20 now. The only thing I’ve ever seen for myself and other moms that really works without fighting is for mom to leave the house for hours, with no instructions for dad. Let him figure it out. No, it’s not fair you have to leave your own house, but it avoids him treating you like the font of all…

A strategy that really seems to help with Dads who don’t seem to get it is the following: Even though you hate to pump, do it interstitially over the period of a week or so, until you build up enough bottled milk to carry the baby for one whole day and one whole night. One weekend, prepare to decamp to a hotel or…

My 3 year old rewrote the lyrics to Row, Row, Row Your Boat and I thought I’d share.

I’m a social worker, but I don’t work for CPS (I’m usually the one calling them, though). You need to call them. Not just based on the fact that they have been left alone with no food for days on end, but also because it sounds like they’ve probably witnessed some domestic violence. It is rare for CPS to remove kids…

Call CPS. Call. Call. Call. There was a time in my mothers life when she was using drugs and not able to parent effectively or safely. We were removed from her care. Yes it was scary and difficult, but it was the kick in the pants she needed to get her life together. We had very positive experiences in foster…

religious rights should not override human rights.

im in between jobs and as such having a little too much time on hands to follow the news and go slightly mad (also commenting on everything even tho every now and then my takes are well and truly stupid.... sorry about that... im not very good at quietly being bored)

Y’all I’m so done. So fucking done. The shutdown? I felt relief because you can’t ruin lives if it isn’t up and running. I felt that about my government

Like most lazy Americans, I watch too many movies.  I’ve never seen a Woody Allen movie. I knew at age 12 that any asshole who marries his step-daughter is a fucking predator and have actively avoided his work. That’s not meant to be a pat on my back, I’ve spent too much time wading around in toxic masculinity to…

I find, too, that if there’s food left over, but not enough to bother bringing home, I have a hard time resisting the urge to eat it if it’s right in front of me. Which leads to unwanted overeating. But if I mix it with someone else’s scraps while stacking dishes, there’s no risk of me absent-mindedly munching on cold…

My dad was always one of those ticklers who wouldn’t stop. When my daughter was old enough to understand, we told her (in front of him) “when Grandpa tickles you and you want him to stop, say ‘Stop.’ If he doesn’t stop, you have permission to hit, bite or kick him as hard as you can until he stops.” She never had to…

I usually agree and appreciate the advice in this column. Good stuff.

Exactly. Removed permanently. End of story. Children’s rights are practically non-existent and it’s absolutely infuriating. Child molesters need to be removed from society entirely. Do time and then, when freed, they’re freed to their own enclave. Too much re-offending. They don’t rehabilitate. why should kids pay?…

Any parent who continues a relationship with the person who molested one of their children should have all of their children removed from their care. How horrific. That man is most likely touching her other children, as well as whatever kids he can get his hands on. Molesters don’t just do it once, to one child. This…

Agreed, the most popular comments on this thread seem to be pearl clutching nonsense . She’s absolutely correct about the dynamics. She’s doing exactly what we should do if we ever want financial equity- transparency, advocacy and amplification. Organizations profit off of forced silence and its way of making it…

Just a sub point here: we should be very wary of framing any silence (such as Mariska’s) as to remuneration as “classy”. While that has been the upper classes’ preference for many hundreds years (and is a pervasive idea in etiquette), it can make it a lot more difficult (if not impossible) for women to get a sense of…

read some of the other comments. faye was on grey’s for a season and i imagine ellen would only bring her up out of familiarity with her.

Wow love how quickly people read this frank discussion of how the economics of Hollywood disenfranchise women, and went; “Fuck her she said a mean thing about Faye Dunaway.”