relationships

All our relationships, not just partnerings

A pink cartoon horse is hugging a blue cartoon horse. The pink horse is squeezing tightly and the blue horse is not returning the hug. The pink horse has happy-closed eyes and a blissful smile while the blue horse has eyes wide open and a nervous-open mouth.

À chacun son goût

By tigtog on 2013-02-18 • ( 5 )

One person’s adorable quirk is the next person’s pet peeve.

A thought experiment

By Mindy on 2013-02-18 • ( 7 )

Slacker Mums: Lets come up with a scenario and then add bits to see where we end up.

Quick Hit: Different desires

By Mindy on 2013-01-29 • ( 10 )

Dealing with different levels of desire: women they’re looking at you. Only you.

The controversy in writing about your children

By hatbluemilk on 2013-01-18 • ( 13 )

This article in The Atlantic by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, “The ethical implications of parents writing about their children” is incredibly unforgiving of mother writers and bloggers. She sets the benchmark very low for the test of appropriateness with writing and… Read More ›

a silver bearded man in a fishing cap gazes thoughtfully into the distance, in the background is a wide stretch of water and a square-rigged sailing ship beside a lighthouse, all underneath a dark and cloudy sky

What can they reasonably expect?

By Mindy on 2013-01-10 • ( 21 )

What is a reasonable expectation if you have invited someone over to watch a movie?

A standard meme image for NiceGuy(TM) - A pale skinned man with dark hair and glasses looks smugly into the lens. The background is blue & pink eighths on the diagonal, and there is text overlaying the image

Quicklink: Clementine Ford on NGOKC and double standards

By tigtog on 2013-01-08 • ( 12 )

A few weeks ago a controversial tumblr was started which highlighted the OK Cupid dating profiles of certain men who claimed to be Nice/Decent Guys, but whose answers on optional stock questions set by OK Cupid revealed various degrees of Not-Nice/Not-Decent attitudes. Clementine lays out the back-story, analyses some of the criticisms, and comes to some conclusions.