I got the black! I’m a sucker for black and white stripes :)
My two cents: being a 30 something woman with a career, money and no kids in the Mexican-American community is very hard. Most women my age have kids, some of them have teenagers, one has grandchildren. They can’t stop themselves from telling me that I’ll probably won’t be able to get pregnant and if I do my body…
She looks younger than me and I’m 28!
Me too. I can’t imagine even 20-something me being a mom. I would have been terrible at it. I would be much better at it now, though I no longer want to be one. And I can say without exception that my friends and family who waited at least until 30+ are just better at handling the responsibility and stress of…
I know there were a lot of words in there that can be discussed, but I just keep thinking about how she is 42 and looks like that. WTF!!!!
As humans live longer now than ever, makes sense to have children later in life. Sure more risks come with it, but having children is always risky. I'd rather 40 year olds having kids than 14 year olds.
It's extremely moving but yes so immensely heartbreaking that I'm not sure I could ever watch it again.
Personally, I cling to the notion that people are capable of extremes of both good and evil. There will always be those people who shelter the persecuted, those that turn them in to the authorities, and those that do neither. The vast majority of us fall into the mushy, do-nothing middle.
Thank you!!!!!
You’re not alone. Online threats, being attacked myself multiple times going about my every day life in person, nearly being kidnapped off of the street, and I live in Southern California, just losing hope in humanity. Then you talk about these things only to have people threaten you for talking about them and…
Any more good documentary recs? I’m on mat leave with no sign of baby coming any time soon and bored as hell.
Just because misogyny and violence against women takes different forms in different regions doesn’t mean that women elsewhere should just ignore it. If I can only care about violence that happens in my region, or my people, or my family then very little is ever going to change anywhere.
I'm not sad or disgusted, I'm a better person that everyone who is. [drops lit cigarette on thread, doesn't look back as it explodes behind me]
I always thought people are mostly good to those who they see as their equals. I think combating sexism/racism/etc. helps, because if people see others as well, actual people, they’ll treat them much better.
Yes, commenters expressing their rage at this are THE problem. Best not to post these things right?
Most people are, otherwise it would be a Max Max world all around and this kind of thing would be happening 24/7. Still, this world needs work. A lot of work. And in this part of the world we need to be vigilant, and make sure our own religious loons don’t turn back the clock.
It speaks sick, sad volumes that this is even a fucking thing. That there could be a mindset among grown men that says, “My feelings for your beauty were not reciprocated, so I punish you by trying to take that beauty away from you” like spoiled, murderous children.
As I’ve said time and time again: Why is nail art still a thing? And I agree - it’s getting much too extreme. I’ll stick to my neutrals/nudes, thank you very much. The most “extreme” I’ll go is some sort of bordeaux.
Wtf is going on with the top left?!