Because she wanted a husband and twelve kids when she was twenty two but couldn’t find someone. From the sound of her explanations I wouldn’t be suprised if she didn’t really date either and just expected a perfect catholic husband to show up on her doorstep.

When I stand for the anthem I start mentally checking off the various ballpark foods I want to eat that day.

Awwww, you're so full of shit.

Freedoms that make white people uncomfortable aren’t real freedoms. Study it out.

What in the world does “I am a foremost civil rights activist” mean?

We also have the freedom to kneel if we want to when we hear the anthem. Or turn our backs. Or dance a jig. Those people died for her freedom to do that too.

So you want professional sports players to take flags onto the field and burn them during the anthem?

The first thing civil rights activists don't do is compare atrocities among the oppressed.

Nimona?

When I got near my four-year anniversary at my job, I asked for a raise. Heard nothing for a month, while offering gentle reminders every week and a half or so. They knew it was urgent, that I was barely surviving on my pay after insurance premiums kicked in. Six weeks after asking for a raise, I was offered another…

I’m looking for a new job (not super seriously, because I’m pregnant- it will get more in depth after baby-having) because I’ve been dicked out of a raise for two years now...

“Oh, it’s not that you’re doing a good job, it’s just that we really need to see you do X, Y, and Z in the next six months to feel comfortable with making this commitment to you.”

I negotiated for 6 months to get equal pay to my colleague, who at the time was still in college - I have been working for the past 6 years and do the job in 2 different languages. I had to listen to “reasons” why I wasn’t as good as him.

This all day. Similar things have happened both to me personally and to a woman I supervised when I had to run her raise by my own boss. We were both doing the jobs of two people (and excelling), and our male counterparts had been given significant raises the previous year. When I submitted the paperwork for my…

Start blocking off afternoons on your calendar and wearing very nice business clothing/makeup/haircut/polished shoes on those mornings. Even if you’re not interviewing elsewhere, make them think you are.

shhh.... Zen koans....

Tell me who has the highest cumulative WAR over the last three seasons or get out

+1 (that’s how it works right?)

Same. I’ve been working my way through the same Urban Decay “Naked” palette for years. Should I throw it out? Technically, but I can’t make myself do it when the damn thing seems to magically regenerate itself. I’ll impulsively buy a new shade only to realize later it’s a dupe for one of the “Naked” shadows. I think…