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Shannon Melero
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Premiere Batman sex correspondent. Staff writer covering women's sports, pop culture, and whatever the instructors at Peloton are up to.

The mural was absolutely the worst part of that. Not only is it creepy but my wife pointed out that when/if they have another kid they will not be represented which I am sure will be pointed out by their older sibling at some point. Read more

The plant in the shower got me. Give it a week at my house and my boys will pee in it guaranteed. Read more

I liked my dad’s idea of putting in a radiator/towel rack to aid drying. Of course, if done wrong the towels just smell worse faster. Read more

Ugh, that mural. If you’re going to put a mural in the bathroom next to the tub, why not something pleasant and non-personal like a seaside scene, or the like?  Read more

My wife was about a year removed from having our baby. She suffered hard from postpartum depression & anxiety. We were tired, out of shape, over weight and surviving life. We did ALL the research with Peloton and all the other options. We cancelled our gym membership bc, hahahaha.... gym... infant/toddler.... We Read more

as their prnouns are listed on istagram as “they/them” and doesn’t include she/her, it would not be okay to use she/her Read more

I didn’t dislike this movie as much as others seemed to. Though the set design wasn’t awesome (though my friend who studies Chinese lit said the houses would likely have been round) Read more

people who hate gyms and gym culture in general” Read more

Yeahhhh I think it has more to do with the fact that she’s so teensy and that pool is so enormous. And that she is a national treasure and honestly? I need a wholesome story like this. Please just let me have one nice thing without trying to twist it into “how will the short little black lady swim”—the fact that you Read more

The US is sending only one athlete to compete in every single event, and it’s Simon Biles. Read more

It’s a good thing for his new wife that people aren’t going to the gym very often with Covid Read more

Here’s what’s wild to me: dude could have taken is light L, spent a year or two “reforming” and “rebuilding” and showing he’s grown, then had a probably legit political career. After all, society is super generous and gracious about giving cis-white dudes a million chances, even after they’ve barely done anything to Read more

“It’s been five years, that was almost two whole phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ago, can’t you just get over it?” Read more

You know things are bad when your best friends are not-so-secretly happy that your raging diarrhea gives them a night off from your company.  Read more

Yep, and this isn’t just white people appropriating other cultures. It’s young, privileged (often thin) influencers trying to fancy up something that the old and the poor just wear as a matter of fact. These are dresses that a lot of women wore when I was growing up, in a not-good neighbourhood. My grandmother wore Read more

Children are still people. If you had a disagreement with an adult, would it be OK to hit them? Or would you try to find another way? Read more

Have you considered the fact that K might be acting out in class BECAUSE her mother hits her? If her mother’s hitting her because that’s the only form of punishment she knows, she’s not going to have learned anything from that.  Read more