I appreciate your passion, but your point of view here belies extraordinary personal privilege. You seem to be insinuating that those who don’t live and work close to nature should be happy with the pigeons they encounter?

My favorite Makeup Authority on Youtube is Wayne Goss, here is his channel. He’s an actual pro makeup artist from before Youtube (as opposed to the many people who got famous on Youtube and then became pros... not to knock those people, but personally I think he’s a lot more real life and less trend-driven because of…

I like Josie Maran’s, but same. :) I do layers of moisturizer, especially in the winter... the face gets a Korean snail “cream” (actually very light), then a cream-cream, then an oil, then a primer. Yeah, it’s a lot, but I get flakes otherwise.

I have really dry skin (and hair too) naturally all over and my lips are just the worst, basically cracked 100% of the time. Can cosign, Fresh lip products are a godsend!

My work’s somewhat interdisciplinary by its nature. I do multiple jobs myself, depending on the client; different clients associate me with different work. The teams/businesses I work with vary according to job specifics but I’m usually the sole [fill in the blank] on a team, working with people focused on different…

I’m an independent contractor who generally works with teams — both agency and client — so yeah, I’m self-employed but I don’t exist in a bubble by myself. I have bosses, I have colleagues.

I strongly disagree with this:

You commented an appropriate comment that is your opinion after reading the entire post, and that’s what commenting is precisely for.

It doubtless will, though it’s important to note that a lot of what casual non-Christian’s think of as Christian (all/most sects, including Mormonism and sometimes even Catholicism) are not regarded as ‘Christian’ by the most highly politicized sects (self-described Non-Denominational / Evangelicals). So what a Mormon…

Or, conversely, female friendships can appear to require a level of social diligence (if not subterfuge) that is difficult for many people — think ‘Mean Girls’. Living in a patriarchal society means that young men and young women are often socially conditioned to behave differently and for a lot of people, this means…

Starred for “(fucking is sports?)”, which I can hear in my head and is hilarious.

I think that’s slightly unfair. I’m a woman, I’m a feminist, and I acknowledge that patriarchal convention actively discourages women joining forces and working together... and I still have very few friends who are women, and only one close one. It *can* be more complicated to have female friendships, even if the…

This is so well written in part because you embrace the complication of being a woman, sometimes loving those people who oppress you without even trying, really, all the while being furious.

This is so well written in part because you embrace the complication of being a woman — sometimes loving those people who oppress you without even trying, really — all the while being furious.

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Someone must have, because it’s for sale at ASOS.

I’m being nicer to you than I probably should be, based on your condescension regarding a subject you plainly know nothing about. You’re the strangest troll I’ve met on Kinja or you’re an aggressively bored asshole—either way you’re lucky because I like to talk about wine so I’m going to keep engaging you.

She certainly responded to those emails as if she did.

Perhaps you might consider that a random person’s enjoyment of wine is not the only way to evaluate the product. Also consider that, if what you were saying were correct, other relatively subjective things — the examples I used in my comment, for instance: food, entertainment, literature — could similarly not be…

This story is over a year old, but sure — I’ll respond. Some additional context from me: I design wine labels for a large part of my living, I live in a wine ag/tourism economy, and my husband has worked for wineries for the past decade so I am pretty steeped in wine all day, every day. It’s probably a different…