Either that or they’re fed up with being PC.

That was the part of that sentence that made sense to me. Sort of.

Annie’s Organics Halloween fruit snacks sounds really expensive. My mother gave out peanuts (in the shell) and raisins in those little snack boxes. Embarrassing. I’m not sure what she does now (if anything - we moved to the end of a long dark lane when I was a teen and that kind of killed it), now that peanuts are…

That’s because I face serious hardship. It infects everything. ;)

And are they lobbying for the legal status of babies? (I’m guessing not.)

On the one hand, as a disabled person who does have lots of real hardship, I’m kind of grateful that so many people don’t seem to have more genuine hardship. (Also, how do you define “genuine”?)

My reply here to someone else appears to have been dismissed, but I’m with you here. I was a teen at the time and I remember thinking how beautiful she was, not how angry or frightened. (And I think, too, looking back, I was conditioned to see anger and fear in girls and women as attractive.) I don’t remember any of…

The one in Prometheus did a very good c-section without even being programmed to do it (I mean, look how mobile she was right after!), so that counts as advertising.

I don’t think “fetishization” is only about sex. Gula is a poster child. The whole poster child thing can be quite exploitive, and often misses the point. Here’s an attractive child to look at, feel all the feels, that’s all folks!

It’s password protected right now.

Hah! We don’t have to check the batteries on the carbon monoxide detectors because they started beeping annoyingly a month ago and we took the batteries out. (The landlord may or may not have put new ones in yet - I don’t care! Especially after how long it took me to find the source of the beeping.)

We had a code. Tenants preferred to yank on the door until the lock broke again. Repeatedly. Here I was thinking we would have been better off with keys.

I used to live in a building where the front door lock kept breaking. The landlord would use a cheap lock, then people would yank on the door rather than punch in the code, and over a week or two it would stop holding. I lived next to the front door and could hear this yanking. I was astonished at the number of…

I think kids can wait until they’re old enough for a job to learn about handshakes.

I had a situation once in a park where I met a kid who was a total stranger and she held her arms out as if for a hug. I was confused and ended up hugging her but it felt really awkward. Her father was there and didn’t say anything. What do you do in a situation like that? I was caught by surprise.

I asked a train security person about that, and he said they were more likely to shoot off the track like bullets. So I’m not going to try that.

And big kids. (I’d let a little kid have it, though, if we got there at the same time.)

I don’t want to make light of your situation. Maybe there is something in this list that you could do? (A lot of them are blue collar, but there might be something. Also maybe in the comments.)

You had an opinion?