Add “tall” in there and that’s where I was. I special ordered a pair of pants online and bought the largest straight size tall maternity jeans carried by Motherhood Maternity. The only saving grace was that I could wear jeans to work. Also, I don’t generally need longer torsos or sleeves in my tops. I had a couple…

Second you as a tall woman.

Speaking as a fellow tall lady, the height might help her out a bit. She’ll have to deal with insecure men of average height (because, in my anecdotal experience, the truly short men don’t care) feeling threatened, and all of the posturing that comes with that, but I’ve found that a lot of men seem to relish in being…

I was pregnant in grad school in Philosophy. While I was seemingly invisible (I’m 6 ft tall and again I was pregnant) professors would regularly get me mixed up with another female student. The worst was literally not being heard. I’d say something in a seminar, and no response. A male grad student who had noticed…

Target makes me angry with the way they place their maternity department - the stores I go to have the maternity department AND the women’s department together with no clear division between the two, which makes me nuts, because so many times I see something really cute and then I realize it’s maternity wear. Which,…

Honestly, I think it’s because as a female you are worried you’ll be judged if you don’t show up. Dudes just take for granted that they can stay home when they are sick, their kid is sick, or it’s dangerous to travel.

Five words: Plus Size Maternity Wedding Dress.

My local Target has the following maternity clothes at any given time:

I get so mad because the Target maternity clothes are cute and the plus-size clothes are a horror show.

What do you think of Belle (historical romance)? Not focused on slavery, but still a period drama. Hancock didn’t really do it for me, even though it starred Will Smith.

Yeah. It’s important to remember the impact of slavery and Nat Turner’s rebellion is the kind of story that should be told, but I do not want the majority of movies that give roles to black people to be slave narratives. It’s kind of insulting, and I want to see stories where black people are simply treated as people.

Annie’s Boobs!

Finally. Someone who says what we were all thinking.

I completely agree. He’s a straight, white, attractive man who spends a lot of energy worrying about those that aren’t and how they are treated. And he tries to do something about it! That’s cool in my book.

I suspect that Robbie, were he transplanted to a non-white majority country like Japan, would have no problem identifying the many ways he was discriminated against in daily life.

Why Macklemore works is because he is like speaking to like. In Same Love he was a straight kid who used to worry about being gay telling other straight kids who worry about being gay that casual homophobia hurts. Here he is talking to white people about a conversation many of us have had internally about how to…

If you haven’t, you should listen to some of his pre Thrift Shop music. It’s pretty socially progressive.

Who actually ragged on you here? Saying that you, (or I) as a white person, are favored by the operation of our society has nothing to do with you as a individual. Why are you talking it personally? It is a recognition of a fact, no different than observing that those without coats will be cold on winter days.

Do you not know what that means? It’s not about being ashamed you’re white.

Not a single person anywhere on this thread or in the post said you should be ashamed. Not a one. Literally no where. Perhaps listen to the song and reread the post.