I've been in some creepy situations too, and I always beat myself up later for not being more direct. "You should have told that guy to fuck off!" I moan at myself. But then, when I stop and think about it, I realize I was trying to keep things civil because I was afraid if I broke the veneer of polite society things…

To the BFFs + Baby. I have a lot to impart here. I was the woman who hated all things related to babies, children, toddlers...anyone under thirty, really. If it wasn't a cat, I didn't know how — didn't care how — to deal.

In regards to friend number one- hopefully she finds her way to http://www.aa.org/ . I know Jezebel has some sort of anti-AA slant, or at least the articles they've written haven't painted AA in a particularly kind light, but it has saved my ass, one day at a time, for over five and a half years. Hopefully, that girl,…

Yeah, I get it: he's trying to play the shining white knight.

It's totally possible and actually pretty painless when you finally do it. I never wanted kids and waited until I was 34 to grudgingly have one and now it's my favorite thing ever. The things we don't do anymore barely register on my radar because my kid is so much fun.

White artists get a pass for objectifying women. Just ask White Snake and ZZ Top.

What the fuck is wrong with people?!?? If you can't afford your lavish, $200/plate wedding without expecting your guests to pay for it, then don't fucking have a lavish, $200/plate wedding, you spoiled, entitled, pathetic brats.

As long as you deflect and deny there is a problem, it will never be fixed.

Melissa Ethridge thinks a foot rub and a glass of Cabernet can cure tit cancer.

Buuuurn!

I was going to give him a benefit of the doubt on the age thing, but then when I saw everything else...

Excellent post. I'm multiracial and I get it.

I may need some further proof that interracial families do in fact eat breakfast.

People often assume I am my children's nanny. I have brown skin, Indian, and my husband is blond, blue eyed and freckled. Kids popped out pretty fair, with brown hair and freckles. I'm 36, but look much younger, and when i was a stay at home mom EVERYONE in my neighborhood assumed i was a nanny. They weren't used…

Rock it. That animal is dead and not wearing it will not bring it back. Might as well celebrate it and look fabulous.

I consider my white boss - an older woman in her 50s - to be a mentor to me, but I've had to check her more than once, which makes for the occasional uncomfortable work day. She told me she just doesn't "get" the whole hair thing. I told her that her opinions concerning the topic - even they lined up with mine 100% -…

Wait a minute, are you suggesting... liberal white people don't know what it's like to be black?! *SHOCK* *dies*

One other things: the white posters here who feel they need to co-sign with us natural Jezzies by stating your opinions about relaxed hair? STOP IT. Stop talking about shit you know little to nothing about.