I remember you, Erin Ryan, when you were just a wee little sproglet with a funny upside-down avatar and a way with words that no other Jezebel commenter could match. I remember you. I watched you grow and grow, and felt so much tender pride in your talent and shit-talking that you’d think they were my own fucking…
Truly, that quote is one of the most valuable things to come out of MoGlo’s tenure at Jez. I find situations to use it in constantly.
This is one of my biggest fears. I’ve convinced myself that there’s a camera in the lights above the toilet at work. A guy I had a fling with in college used to let his roommate hide in the closet and watch us have sexy times. I didn’t know this until years after the fact and I felt so unbelievably violated and it’s…
Losing Millihelen is the Deepest Cut of all.
This is a super fair critique of this article. The one point I wanted to comment on was this:
They often don’t have much more money- it all goes to childcare. If you have and need a full time job, you have to get childcare for your child/children and it’s not cheap. I know women whose entire paycheck goes to childcare, but if they quit to take care of the kids for a couple of years they doubt they could get a…
If you read other recent posts on the subject, it’s not champagne and caviar for everyone spending a college tuition’s worth on preschool. In states where high costs are the norm, it’s more like being stuck renting and using old cars and going deeper in debt while praying for the day that your kid gets into public…
What I take from this story is how scary it is that by going private, schools and other type of institutions can get away with discrimination and deviating from the overall educational system objectives.
Agreed. There was a shit-ton of mean-girl-ness in this article, especially in that paragraph you pointed out.
Thank you for this. It is so frustrating that women who are also mothers seem to be the last demographic everyone feels great about mocking endlessly, and I notice this especially from younger women who haven’t had children yet. I never see this level of derision aimed at dads, so why are mothers so horrible and…
I never heard a word back but she cancelled that and all subsequent spelling tests for the remainder of the year.
THANK YOU. THANK. YOU. You said it. Some of us took a career hit to stay home with our babies for the first couple of years, because $2k per month for daycare was impossible. In a 2-income household, taking gigs on the side. Then Obama throws out the idea of subsidized child care, and the GOP clowns screamed…
It’s actually not that much. In fact, I pay over $19,000 in maryland. It’s high for my area, but even the low end (like the kind of places where they leave your kid in a swing for hours at a time) charge at least $1000 per month. This is the problem with parenting and child care and telling women on welfare to just…
Came here to ask the same question... I hope the author didn’t blow the source’s cover.
Hoping one of the ungreyed commenters pulls this out bc yours is a fair critique.
Patty? Edna? Same person?
So, I’m stuck in the grays and no one will ever see this, but: I have some real problems with this article. The tone is oddly sensationalizing and it focuses on a lot of random and unimportant deatils in a way that seems pearl-clutching and even, at times, strangely un-feminist for Jezebel.
The craziest thing to me is that this aesthetic reminds me of extreme poverty. When I think of homeless people or some of the people who live in the Brazilian favelas, that’s the kind of stuff they wear (because they can’t afford clothing and take donations and whatnot). And then this dude comes in and launches this…
I can’t bring myself to spend $20 at target on PJs...I want them, put them in my cart, and abandon them every time. I just can’t spend money on stuff I’m sleeping in. I want to be one of those gorgeous women in beautiful lingerie putting on hand lotion before bed at my perfectly appointed vanity, but I always end up…