“I invited my friend and her boyfriend over for a fun wine and painting night. ‘Where’s your son? Is your son asleep?’ he asked. I told him no, he was gone and under my husband’s supervision for the night. ‘WHAT? HE is gonna watch the baby? Why aren’t YOU watching him?’ I was LIVID.”
‘Your HUSBAND cleans?! Isn’t that your job?’ My jaw dropped. I could feel my blood boiling. Then, he proceeded to ask questions.’
‘He’s just a tomboy. He’s going through a phase.’ At the age of 2, my son began showing a fierce rejection of all things female. It didn’t enter my mind that my child could be trans.’
“She said something along the lines of, ‘Please be careful with waiting to allow your child to transition. That can be dangerous.’ And then she proceeded to tell me why.”
‘Are you ok tonight?’ I was in the grocery store trying to pretend everything was OK, but it wasn’t. I was bawling my eyes out. ‘This isn’t a forever feeling.’ I’m so grateful to you.’: Mom overcomes severe depressive episode thanks to kindness of strangers
“I was afraid to leave my house without my husband. ‘I know this is hard for you,’ he would say. ‘Can you tell yourself that you’re safe?’ ‘No,’ I would respond. I reached out as a bit of a last-ditch effort, right there in the grocery store, tears running down my face. The response was incredible. Those women saved me.”
‘We are forgetting about our boys and that’s not OK.’
“Article after article is about raising daughters, not sons. And, when I do come across an essay on raising sons, it’s about how and why we need to raise our boys with particular values for the sake of the females and daughters of the world. This is something I’m not entirely on board with.”
This never-ending list of how women protect themselves against sexual assault proves WHY women are so angry
“I draw a line down the middle of a chalkboard, sketching a male symbol on one side and a female symbol on the other. Then I ask just the men: What steps do you guys take, on a daily basis, to prevent yourselves from being sexually assaulted?”
‘My daughter wore a pair of jeans to school. They had a hole in the knee. In the middle of a quiz, a male administrator told her she needed to consider guys and their hormones, yanked her out of class and threw her into In-School Suspension.’
“I’m sorry but EXCUSE ME?”
‘I became utterly disgusted with myself and who I had become’: Woman’s incredible weight loss journey after ‘tumultuous’ breakup
“I want people to know that no matter what happens, they are strong.”
Moms, it’s up to us to raise daughters who don’t tear each other down
“Want to raise strong, confident and empowered little girls to lead the next generation? It’s time we all act as role models and empower the women around us, today.”
‘It cost the man almost $900:’ Stranger buys ticket for airman to visit her dying father
“My father’s health took a nosedive and he wasn’t expected to live more than a couple days.”
‘To the girl who hasn’t been herself lately. It seems like you’ve lost yourself.’: Young woman’s candid post assures ‘your happiness will return, you will be better, stronger’
“It’s difficult when you catch yourself not being you. You wonder, ‘Why is this happening? When will it get better?’ Your spark will return, and you will shine like you were meant to.”
