If you are trying to pretend that you're still the young buck when you're my age, it just doesn't work.

Here's my right.

In my small town the thing to do on New Years when you were a teen was to go to the skating rink and take part in a "Lock-In", where they lock the doors and you skate and "party" all night (which meant 1am).

"We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men"

To celebrate, here is a gif.

This is exactly what we need. I don't think I've ever seen a celebrity talk openly about abortion, especially their own experiences. I'm impressed and thrilled and love Nicki Minaj more and more with each thing I read about her.

Only if we can keep the Pharisee hats from the old movie (and yes I just googled superstar pharisee hats and this was the first image, I love you internet):

There are women going through menopause who have better flow.

interviewer: iggy give us a freestyle

I say they should have gone with Fraggle...

Isha, I'm going to let you in on a secret. The two week break isn't for the kids. It's for the poor teachers who have to deal with those assholes for a living.

Exactly this. I'm very vocal about colorism issues and being sensitive to the context of my voice in discussions on colorism. But I will drop some truth on oppression olympic style dismissals of the real problems POC face relative to their personal experiences.

As much as I wanted to roll my eyes, it's important not to invalidate someone else's experience (especially among POC) because of their perceived lack of oppression. They are part of the conversation because the discord in our communities was built off both our backs.

what these parents are doing is fine. I know this is shocking....but parents DO make mistakes. Maybe they let stuff get out of hand and now they pay the price by dealing with it. And this is how they deal with it. It sounds like the kids have all they need and will still be celebrating. Nothing bad will come from…

I know - I read it twice to make sure I wasn't missing something. I mean, surely there are some things she could say or do differently but how many parents do you ever hear say, "my kids have become brats, it's my fault, we're going to fix it." Are they supposed to just let this behavior continue on un-checked?

Okay, I felt like I was in crazy town reading this. Why are we supposed to hate on these parents for trying to correct bad behavior? Not getting presents at Christmas isn't abuse and even if lax parenting is the cause of entitlement, why can't parents try to change? Not giving their kids junk they'll forget about in a…

Yeah, I don't get the outrage. Your kids are brats, so you're trying to emphasize community building over materialism. Oh no ...

I dunno, I know that she invited this thing by posting it on the internet, but these are this woman's kids and if she and her husband want to cancel Christmas and call it just that, then whatever. Go for it. We'd all probably do a lot better if, so long as no one is actually abusing anyone or putting our own children…

Somehow the word consequence has become synonymous with punishment.