My uncle once tried to order a Manhattan at a chain restaurant. There was much scrambling from the waitstaff and bartenders - we could tell from where we were sitting they had NO IDEA what a Manhattan was. I'm not sure what they gave him but it sure as hell wasn't a Manhattan...so we just chalked it up to a Manhattan…

So the same people who say if you talk about the problem with institutionalized racism in this country it means YOU'RE the real racist.

Just came here to post that. She spends way too many words calling for "both sides of the issue"...as if there's another side to rape.

My parents always assumed the worst of me & my sister. They were certain we were always 5 minutes away from showing up pregnant or getting hauled off to the police station. We never did anything illegal, we never had sex, we didn't really even have friends. I think the worst thing I ever did was lie to my parents…

God bless Planned Parenthood. When my husband and I moved across the country and were trying to start out in a city that isn't friendly to transplants in a crappy economy, we had no health insurance (this is pre-obamacare). We were struggling to find temp work and if I'd gotten pregnant we would have had to apply for…

You know you can go to Planned Parenthood and get free (or low-cost depending on income) birth control, right?

When my husband was sick I had a bunch of people tell me about this that or the other "miracle cure" that was, like, SO MUCH BETTER than chemo. No thanks, he doesn't need $50 concentrated guava juice that your mom read about in an email from her sister's friend, he needs fucking medical treatment from actual medical…

You friend must be insanely hot because ugly girls like me would get punched in the face for putting out hands in a dude's beer.

Sadly, all my attempts completely failed. I tried snuggling closer when watching movies, touching my hair like lady mags tell you to do, mentioning I'd be up for it, telling dudes I thought they were hot...nothing.

...Mom?

It's the patriarchy at work. It's the attitude that women are just "naturally better" caregivers than men so you've got all these judges bending over backwards to give an unfit mother the benefit of the doubt (which they'd never give to an unfit father). Once we get to a place where our society doesn't assume a…

No, it's judgmental and makes women like me - who have no CHOICE - feel like we're bad people and worse mothers. But you keep pretending it's just a "preference" and not part of the bullshit "mommy wars" culture that exists simply to shame all women for "not doing it right".

Whenever I see the advice to "just use tinted moisturizer!" I laugh and laugh and laugh. GTFO with that worthless shit.

Interesting. Because if you actually didn't give a fuck (ie - agreed with your boss) you wouldn't care that I used the word "all".

Not wanting anything outside an admin position is fine - that was me in grad school. Go in, do my shit, leave work shit at work at the end of the day so I could focus on my classes. Kept my rent paid and food in my fridge and that was fine by me.

Have you never heard of a "long distance relationship"? They have those.

Once, I was getting ready to go meet a friend at a bar. As I was putting on my lipstick, a voice in the back of my mind said, "You better look your best tonight because you're going to meet the man of your dreams." I pushed that thought aside with a "what the fuck ever" shake of my head - I was taking a break from…

It's fucking bullshit that companies expect endless enthusiasm from their employees yet will try to do everything possible to dick those employees out of benefits and a living wage. I wonder how much longer we as a country will put up with this "job creators know best and YES we will work for free and YES we will work…

He says when your job is, and always will be, essentially administrative/supportive, fruitless ambition is exhausting to have to pretend to think is cool.

Your spouse becomes your boss. You will have to justify what you did that day. You are accountable as to how you spend on groceries and whether there is clean laundry and why there is no toilet paper.