There is only one person in the world who ever broke up with me, instead of me breaking up with him.( Read more... )

Bearing a child does not make you a mother.

That sentence involves playing around with definitions a bit. You know that phrase "Any man can be a father, but it takes a special man to be a daddy"? It's a little like that. The simple act of bearing a child does not a mother make, except in the strictest biological sense. There are many reasons why ( Read more... )

So, someone made a post in childfree - basically, an old lady got on a bus, while the OP was standing, due to lack of seats. The OP sees one lady - and goes into a unnecessary description of how she's dressed - with her four or five year-old daughter, and an older child sitting next to his mother, with his bag on the seat beside him. So, the OP ( Read more... )

Grraaaaarrrgh, this post.

Okay, this guy walks into CF and lurks for a bit.  He makes comments about how the entire group is close-minded, and says things like "at last, someone intelligent!" when anyone agrees with him.  Then, he posts about his unhappiness with life - that, in short, he has no one he feels really close to, and that his ex- ( Read more... )

http://www.newsweek.com/id/194886?tid=relatedclRead more... )

One of the major stories in the news atm involves students who have recently taken their a levels having no university spaces available. Or people not being able to find work, or simply not trying (Benefit Busters and Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum, for a start). Or teenage pregnancy (anything on BBC3 ( Read more... )

People think too much, sometimes. That's one of the problems language has given us, allowing us to conceive of a self, and complicated concepts like 'should ( Read more... )

Pretty women are slim, with some curves, wear make-up and feminine looking clothes, have long hair, and can walk in heels.

Tbh, I've really never been bothered with any of that.  Want to know a secret?  I don't even bother to shave my legs if I'm going to be wearing trousers, and I know no one but me will see them.  I really don't care.  I don't ( Read more... )

Little girls learn about women by copying their mothers, and learn about men from their fathers. I'd guess it's the same for little boys, but I don't have personal experience of being one of those, and I wouldn't like to presume.

Growing older, girls look for other female role models to tell them what they "should" be. It's not something we're ( Read more... )

Earlier today, someone asked me over msn to include a certain smilie in my screenname because of Rhys Jones, a young boy who was killed recently.

wud u put a (so) infront of ur msn name in memory of that 11 year old rhys jones who got shot in liverpool plz
Nope.
Sorry.
y
I have my reasons.
more important den a childs life?

(Okay, that ( Read more... )