Honestly you do not seem to know enough about abuse and the lasting impact it has on behaviours and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in a child to be giving the advice you are. Maybe every single thing you did would work wonders on your child. But a child with FAS and abuse history has to be dealt with in different ways (as…

I am glad to have read your post. I also had (have) a sick abusive mother who would do the things your parent(s) did and then tell me ooh this is nothing. If you grew up what I went through you'd be dead. As if her abuse negated the abuse she inflicted upon my sister and I.

Very obvious the one at fault there was the mother for leaving two toddlers alone in a bath tub and expecting everything to turn out fine and dandy. Always have someone supervise a toddler with an infant if you can. Spanking averted. She didn't think her actions, as the adult, through.

Nope my friend is Latino. And there are definitely white, black, and other races of Latin people (of which Cuba is a category of countries). In North American classification we differentiate Latino as its own race but they classify things differently there for good reason.

How about not isolating them into gender and race. Have you ever heard of intersectionality? This is a case of racialized sexism, m'dear.

"seems to be" are the operative words there. We can not know if she truly is. Plus, many people delude themselves into believing they are happy, when in reality they are truly not. If she was genuinely happy, wouldn't she be happy in human form and not try to turn herself into an inanimate, brainless, sex toy? From a…

Honestly the way you keep talking I feel like the only way you will learn how thoughtless and careless you are being is to experience something terrible like this. Some people can't be taught empathy they literally have to experience things to get it. Let's see how your new age wisdom would help you to cope if you…

It all depends on how you were raised though. Certain traits can be conditioned into you. My abusive bitch of a child birther got cancer within the last year and her abuse escalated so much due to the treatments, that I had to leave the home to finish my studies. Yet I still keep in touch and visit her to help her on…

If you're a terrible person in life, you cant expect respect or goodness when you get older, or when you die, especially from children you abused.

As if it is so easy to let go of the past right? Perhaps you do not understand one's childhood and upbringing largely impacts your adult years and the type of person you will be. If you have never experienced abuse at the hands of a parent, your opinion is invalid. If you have, then realize everyone deals with their…

If it was me I would probably tell her what you want to tell her. And be snarky about it. But then I'm a confrontational and direct person. Also I don't sugar coat my confrontations (though sometimes I probably should). Point being I support your decision to tell her false equivalency and define that term for her. XD

'Murican politics doing it wrong for a long time. So glad I live in Canada :D

I love this quote so much as I cannot stand ignorance and worse, willful ignorance. I shall post it as my fb status. :D Thanks :]

What disappoints me about many Jezebel readers is they are body-shaming and masking it under concern. The exact same phrases that many get offended by in regards to articles about overweight or obesity is being thrown at this woman for being thin. As if somehow a person can use the way one looks (whether curvy or…

This just comes across as some rationalization in the form of everyone does it so it's no big deal guysss!! That may not have been how you meant it. I personally do not accessorize with my friends of various races. We are friends because we have shared interests, values, opinions, went to the same school(s), etc. etc.…

Honestly I don't think enough people (especially in US) even understand mental health problems. They think there is no genetic basis to it and it's all based on choices. Well let me enlighten the uninformed, judgmental jezzies here: addiction for many is based in genetics. There are people who have a predisposition to…

Can you tell me where there is condescension towards Black women in the song? I have listened to it many times and am surprised I didn't catch it. If you don't want to share, that's cool too. I'm just really curious now.

THANK YOU!

You need to read this:

Do not argue for something using an example of something you know very little about (affirmative action). Do you truly believe that the bandaid approach of affirmative action is disadvantaging white people on the whole? If so then you are mistaken.