Now now...Americans believe in mental health when there’s a mass shooting done by a previously law-abiding white Christian man.

Remember that time I kept getting told I had pneumonia and my back pain was “unrelated” and we don’t know what’s causing it, but take some Aleve we guess, and then I was diagnosed with STAGE IV CANCER? hahahahahahahafuckyoudoctors

And of course now I remember how women are usually let in pain for longer or told that they are over reacting 70% longer tan males.

And even that one has been unacceptable for about the last fifteen years or so

The only acceptable kind of yellow face.

That’s amazing. What happened?

Spencer Pratt is an asshole.

I know, but there’s no reason to attack him for a stupid mistake when there are plenty of substantial criticisms to be made against him.

I bet the people who are rifling through the books for “proof” Hermione’s white are the same types who totally missed that Rue was described as black in the Hunger Games.

As the mother of 2 boys, I’m becoming very aware of the weird way we teach them things. At my son’s playgroup a dad got super angry at his son when he got into a tussle with a little girl over a toy. He was yelling “you never hit a girl” at his kid. And I was just thinking “Dude, why not teach him not to hit ANYONE.”

I never rape the women I see smiling at me. I’m ready for my prize now, Nobel committee.

Yes! The reading comprehension is very low in this one! Like, grade five low. I taught middle school literature for a bit, and the question “why is Hermione’s face described as white” could conceivably be a question in one of our standardized tests. I feel confident that “because she is caucasian” wouldn’t qualify as…

I think what is more surprising is that someone had to go through all the Potter books searching to find that one reference to her skin color.

“Hermione’s white face”

Why on earth is that a good solution? Sure it sucks that there was a mistake in the announcement, but it doesn’t change the fact that one had the winning score and one had the second place score. It’s not that the voting mechanism fucked up, or someone tried to deliberately change the outcome. I feel for the woman who…

I’m super late on this, but when I was 4 or 5, I was presented with eggs benedict at a fancy breakfast. I did not want to eat them because they weren’t scrambled. So my dad told me that I used to eat them all the time “when you were younger”, and that I loooooved them. I gobbled them right up.

nope, honesty is best. Why the fuck lie about nature and your natural body. You were lucky to have such a mother.

Wha...? You were *already* at an age at which some girls start menstruating (I had friends who got their period at age 9), and she told you that utter nonsense when the topic was actually broached, giving her the perfect opportunity to discuss a biological reality? So she wanted you to be frightened and ignorant when…

Some people do lend them out and/or use them with sexual partners, making a condom a good idea so you don’t pass anything back to yourself, but I had materials sensitivities more in mind.

....I informed him that it absolutely is not.