I'm also multi-racial and I constantly think about my future kids in this sense! I hope that they are just fantastic and only know wonderful people who consider them as human as everyone else. Ditto for yours!

I'm super mixed and in HS I had a boyfriend who delighted in telling people that I was a mutt.

Yes. A thousand times this. Thank you. I love you. White is not the normal to which my brown is other.

I actually really loved this article. Please write one for me when I'm pregnant. Just kidding. Kinda.

EXACTLY! I was like is everyone forgetting how entirely obsessed with looks the Capitol is? The Victors would all have been totally prettied up, her included!

Thank you so much! This absolutely helps! :)

This is entirely unrelated to the topic, but you teach in Tulsa? Mr. Dude moved there for work last year and I've been finishing a teaching program in Texas. Ive looked at jobs etc, but I figured I could ask you what the teaching scene is like over there? I still have another year but it doesn't seem like Dude will be…

There are a LOT of non-white people in the South, and a lot of non-racist white people.

Not going to lie, I've been checking Jezebel all day to see when this story would come up. If I hadn't been studying for a physics test, I'd have written about it myself. I'm that outraged.

I agree with everything you just said.

Fantastic!! Really nice and super pleasant to read, and actually relevant to myself right now.

I'm super anemic, and always feel cold myself , but my skin is actually always very warm. Dunno why.

Did anyone else read the headline in Seth Meyers from Weekend Update voice?

My mom and I were JUST talking about this yesterday. Crazy.

I'm so sorry this happened to you. It's still awful, no matter how not-extreme it is in comparison, and that really sucks. It's really eye-opening, because how on earth would you have known the situation would turn out like that? I'm sorry and can't even begin to imagine how helpless it must have felt :(

Agreed. I stopped reading at that point and scrolled straight down to the comments to say that. It makes me think "Biebergate" like some sort of Bieber scandal.

I love this comment! I have a scar on my face that I never felt the need to conceal, but insane dark circles that show up after a late night reading. I sometimes cover the circles because I don't need people KNOWING how little sleep I've gotten and just like looking healthier. The scar is tiny and is from years ago…

I feel the same way you do! I work in a small office right now that is family-run, so I actually don't HAVE to wear makeup/dress nice most days (just, modest, because my dad's here), but the days that I do decide to dress nice and wear makeup are the days I feel the nicest. It's fun, and whether I have on lots or a…

ME TOO.

Due to some crazy-bad experiences in my life I thought I was going to be one of those people. I didn't even ever feel ATTRACTION to anyone, and got super good at faking orgasms. I thought it was just me, but then I met the guy I'm with who basically rocks my world. But I also took the time to get to...know myself…