You win parent of the year! And you have stolen the title from my brother who told his toddler that there are guard-dragons outside her door when she's supposed to be sleeping. (Really cuts down on the late night wanderings.)

In a small Kansas town, it means you go to work and school like normal, but you have to sleep at the jail. And if you're friends with the guards, you drink with them at night.

I really don't think so. If someone I know has been to prison, they've never told me about it. My friend's brother spent a week in jail for a suspended license once, but that's not even close to the same.

I do agree with you on that, but it also gives white girls like me an entry point into a world we might never otherwise feel a part of. It's the reason that Doctor Who always has a companion from modern-day Earth. There's a character to explain things to us.

I live next to Sprint headquarters, where you would expect there to be people to repair towers, and haven't received calls or texts in something like a month. I haven't had an outgoing call that didn't drop, and get emails a day or more later than they were sent.

I stopped after Speaker for the Dead. And it's been ages since I read them. Does he drop the tolerance theme?

Yeah, thanks for making me feel even lazier. I'm browsing Jezebel to AVOID thinking about laundry!

Sorry, I know this isn't the takeaway you intended, but:

Dude, for fucking seriously. ALL of my neighbors have chickens, most have bees, some grow their own hops for beer, and one has a goat to trim the lawn. It sounds super hipstery, because we're in a major metropolitan area, until you walk into my backyard in the fall and see two neighbors helping each other butcher…

What ever happened to people supporting each other? my husband's conservative family shit a brick when they found out he was willing to quit his job and move cross country to support my career. A decision that was only between the two of us became this mine field of gender role expectations. I loved what he said,…

you are absolutely right. thank you for reminding me that my choices have fuck all to do with anyone else.

he's come a long way, and we're still young so I'm not going to give up on him. what I meant by him acting like more of a feminist than he thinks he is: Pro choice, key witness at a friend's rape trial where he expressed disgust at the idea that her clothing meant she was "asking for it," etc. he's just uncomfortable…

Yeah, pretty groundbreaking shit that there are different people in the world, right? I bet if I looked really hard I could even find a male feminist!

hah, well, I guess I've been outed as a computer illiterate. thanks :-)

we've been friends since elementary school, and even though we disagree about a lot of things, he's still a great friend. it's hard when you find qualities in your friends or family that you dislike, but friendship is ultimately about more than aligning political views. and my post wouldn't give you this information,…

I didn't realize that when I started responding. is there any way to ignore them after the fact?

To be fair, at that point in history almost everyone was essentially required to be religious.

I do agree with you on that. But how do you get millions of people to start calling an idea by a different name? Humanism is already taken, and FemManGLBTQChildIsm just sounds awkward.

OH MY GOD THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING ME! Here I was thinking that white men never deal with poverty, discrimination, domestic violence, cancer or paper cuts.

You have just insulted a huge group of people. Is that what you meant to do?