Only one suggestion, but play dates with girls! We have semi-regular playground sessions with one girl in our neighborhood. He gave me shit about it at first, but the shyness/ embarrassment melted away. It’s so easy to keep play dates boys w boys and girls w girls but I think it’s important to mix it up!

A steady diet of Hiyao Miyazaki will help. And talking, and talking and have men in his life talking about it, too. (19 and 14 yr old sons who are feminists. )

It’s such a bizarre shift to witness! My son is a similar age and I am convinced some of his newfound distinctions are being shaped and defined by kids in his class, mostly ones with older siblings. I engaged at first, thinking it *kind of* cute- mostly because it was a new thing for him, to make these distinctions…

Sadly, my son is less than thrilled. Until just a few months ago, he watched Frozen as well as Cars and played with My Little Pony and dinosaur toys. Now the societal conditioning is sinking in and everything that is for girls is seen as somehow less than. No matter how many times I tell him that Ghostbusters with…

That’s only because your daughter is too young to know that by loving Ghostbusters with girls, she is ruining some nerd’s childhood.

Sadly there’s probably a lot of truth to that. Although they’re not coming out and saying it directly, I would bet large chunks of money that they feel that as a tall, buxom, black woman, she’s not going to be the next Lupita Nyong’o, and won’t be that bankable, so why bother investing time and money in dressing her?…

This is all bullshit and I’m glad she will get a dress and I love her and everything about her.

I love that no designers stepped in because she’s not a sample size but no- oh no - it’s not because of a size bias. Do they hear themselves?

My humble suggestion is that celebrities should wear fashion designers on the Red Carpet.

I mean, our taxes pay for those pages to fetch them pizzas, yo. We can support via hitting the streets and reposting.

I'm so utterly captivated right now. Question: has anyone heard of anything that we can do to show solidarity with this action? I'm down to chip in for pizza.

it’s possible that she can handle basic tasks but couldn’t grasp what on earth her husband was doing and that it needed to be reported. Or she was getting help-from a family member or friend or her husband. Or she truly can’t handle caring for the child and the situation was a horrible accident waiting to happen. If…

Except that caring for a child well involves a lot more complex group of thoughts than making sure there is food in the house and showing up on time to appointments.

It is for you because you’re an adult without a cognitive disability. Try explaining death to a person with the cognitive function of a five year old and see how well that goes. I’ve actually had to do it and it doesn’t work. Months later the person will still be asking “when is X coming home? Why don’t we see them…

It’s amazing how simple it is to say “Sometimes things are just not that damned simple.” How is that hard to grasp? I see it reflected in my own life on a daily basis with people I love. How can people not see when situations are way more complicated than “he’s just an angry asshole” or “she’s a spoiled brat?”

Well, yeah, but the original information was also leaked to sway any potential jury. Just in the opposite direction.

There is a third possibility; she knew about it, but was unable to do anything about it, either due to manipulation by her husband (which would fit his profile), or she was unable to connect the dots until it was too late due to her learning disability.

A disabled woman interrogated by the FBI without representation? My money is on the FBI not getting accurate information out of her.

I’m not going to just assume she’s innocent and the idea that she’d claim this to save her own ass (which I doubt, really) makes me sick, but you wouldn’t believe how many innocent people who did NOTHING to deserve it or cause it are affected by things like this, often unidentified. Whole lives of frustration,…