I had to take on some debt so I could move the hell back out of that state, and it was worth every goddamn penny. What a backwards shithole. I can’t even sympathize with Texans forced to live with these embarrassing shenanigans, because they keep voting these cretins into office.

“When I first met you, I thought you were kind of stuck up, but you're not.” The only people who have ever said this to me are Americans. I’m an introvert and I don’t do fake-effusive when I first meet people, but I'm polite. Jeez.

“I used to think your nose was ugly, but it’s really not that bad.” Stated months into a relationship by someone who then got all huffy, defensive and impatient because I got mad and hurt. To my shame, I proceeded to spend 9 years in a relationship with this person (I also remember his pretty long monologue on how…

I’m moving to Colorado and will be going through my (second) divorce (from the same person, we suck at being married but we actually do have incredibly amicable divorces, so there’s that). I got a card from my mom today, I hadn’t even told her, but apparently news travels. It was I think (?) her version of…

I’m a six and I was a hand span away, it hurt ridiculously, and also made me feel inadequate in the same way I do in yoga when everyone wraps their arms around their backs and over their shoulders and their arms meet enough to grasp hands and I’m always like wtf, I’m not even close, how is everyone doing that and what…

I’m glad it’s not just me, and I feel like I always love everything she wears. :( It’s like she was wearing a workout tee, said “Another official tea?? Aww, fuck it.” Then grabbed the nearest huge doily and put a belt on it.

Some of the absolute worst, most emasculating comments I’ve heard about men who are short to on-the-shorter-side-of-average height are from other men who are tall or tallish (around 6 ft), actually, not women. I’m not sure if women really care as much as some men apparently think they should. (Or, maybe I just don’t…

I’ve raised two teenage girls. The amount of time they spent grooming their hair before they felt ready to greet the world was roughly equivalent to the amount of time it takes to cure cancer. Some of them can be a tad obsessive about wanting it to look good, at certain points in adolescence.

Honestly? With parents as controlling as this sometimes is just not having a chirpy enough attitude, or getting chores done as directed, etc.

What an asshole. Also, I am sorry you’re stuck in Texas. I was until this week when I got a job and a duplex in Colorado. As of August, I'm getting the fuck out.

Texas mommies are the absolute worst. I bet she has her entire subdivision in an uproar and baying for this woman’s blood. I’m moving back to Colorado in August, and I can’t wait until I’ve seen the last of this hellish backwater.

Schools don’t want that crap, they were forced into it by education “reformers”, and the legislatures and voters who bought the snake oil that both they and the big testing companies like Pearson were selling.

If he was anyone else’s kid and on his THIRD arrest, wouldn’t he be in jail by now, especially given the assault charge? Pretty sure my (not rich, not connected) kid who’s the same age would be, under the same circumstances. That’s the part that pisses me off, because you know Paul’s going to want the poors to take…

I think they’re cute, too, although I’ve never bought anything from them. Then again, I like the stuff they sell at Boden, and they do the loud prints and sometimes retro styles too. I guess that makes me déclassé but well, sometimes I get sick of black and grey. It’s just clothes. People are kind of being snotty…

I lived in a country where open ogling, catcalling, whistling, noises etc were accepted parts of tbe culture, when I was between the ages of 10-16. All that stuff started shortly after I got there, and it was constant. There were days I avoided going out in public because of it, and it definitely exacebated my already…

I’ve seen way too many men jump into new serious relationships with women with unseemly haste, sometimes within days of dissolving their last relationship, to buy that.

This is a pretty classic abusive dillhole ploy, actually. Behave abhorrently, when the women talk about it or react, act charming and like you have no idea what all the overblown fuss is about, then imply that said woman is dramatic or difficult or unstable. It’s usually telling when someone has a string of these…

This suburb is about 15 minutes up the freeway from me. Christ, I hate this place, and I was absolutely not surprised in the slightest that any of this took place in Grapevine. I had an interview this week for a teaching job in Colorado in a town where the economy is driven by agriculture and prisons. It sounds like…

Way better quality. I'm waiting for them to catch on and start producing overpriced cheap crap too.

That’s fading as tenure gets systematically killed, state by state, with the corporatization of the public school system. Like any other business, with the “performance-pay” evaluation models, when they need to cut the budget, they’ll start finding ways to say it’s the higher-earning, more senior teachers who are not…