JESUS AMEN! I am so fucking OVER everyone classifying Trump supporters as all the poor rednecks from the South or construction workers in Ohio or whatever. Of course they love him; that’s not surprising. What will never cease to astonish and infuriate me are the legions of upper-middle class white guys (I work with…

I’m kind of okay with them literally drowning in their own ignorance. Christ, at some point, God only helps those who help themselves. 

What about Ibotta app? I love it because you don’t even have to have it out at the store, you just take a picture of your receipt afterward and it takes off the coupons you saved! (I promise I have no stake in this company, just really like the app.)

You forgot to add... TAKE LOTS OF DEEP BREATHS.

As someone who has a less than stellar understanding of the relationship between a president and FBI director (sorry, guess I missed middle school civics), I thought this passage was particularly helpful:

As someone with a food science degree who is also one of those crunchy people buying expensive “no-SLS, no parabens, no oxybenzone, etc” sunscreen...

My partner and I quit Prime this year in an effort to cut down on expenses and lazy impulse shopping. We still make plenty of purchases from Amazon (at least once a month), but when you do the math, I could PAY for shipping once a month (I don’t) and still come in under the price of Prime for a year.

On a related note...I’m watching with my husband, and I’ve found his reactions to be very interesting. Like I am normally the one who watches 60% of Game of Thrones with my eyes closed cuz I just can’t handle it or whatever. But watching HMT, HE is the one who is like shuddering every other scene and totally horrified…

Fucking THIS. If you’re going to do everything in your power to prevent women from accessing legal medical procedures, at least have the decency to say it’s because of baby-killing or whatever it is you ignorant assholes believe. But don’t couch it in this states’ rights BULLSHIT. That nonsense makes the whole thing…

It is still so incomprehensible to me how “states’ rights over a Washington-knows-best mentality” is any different than, oh, say, individual women’s rights over a State-knows-best mentality? Why does she think that the state of Iowa making decisions about my uterus is inherently better than the federal govt doing it?

AMEN. I actually totes agree with you, and just enjoy being snarky. That is actually a seriously impressive number of women, and I am rooting for them all the way. Go get ‘em ladies!!!

And believe it or not, I’m really not trying to hate on Ms. Sandberg. No one is wrong in telling you to ask for a raise if you deserve one. (I love Jean Chatzky on these matters, for instance.) But Jean isn’t telling us that this is the answer to patriarchy. She’s just trying to help a gal out. And that, I respect.

Huh. It’s almost as if policy and patriarchy dictate this stuff and not the you-go-get-‘em determination of individual women.

I guess I took the “way too much television” as a sort of sarcastic/positive comment...like “oh my gosh, so much television, so little time!” But I guess I should let the author speak for herself...

I have a longer comment on this that’s buried somewhere a few miles down this page (wow this topic is popular), but to paraphrase:

As a recently married person…THANK YOU FOR THIS. The thought of making a registry for my (29) wedding to live-in BF (32) of 3 years was so cringeworthy I wanted to die. Especially because many relatives had to travel to BF’s hometown for the wedding. Sadly, family pressure is very real thing, so we ended up…

“Beauty comes from ashes…”

And also, it fucking irritates me that writers intentionally choose to set their work in time periods/settings where people of color were excluded, and then claim that they can’t include actors of color because it’s not historically accurate...

YES!!! Game of Thrones is the perfect example of this and it pisses me off to no end. Like, so you’re telling me...you have created an intricate, multi-”cultured”, completely fake world, where dragons are magical beings who can communicate with princesses...but you cannot envision a world in which people of color are…

Having flashbacks to all the farm kids I went to college with in Nebraska who somehow think their daddies’ hundreds of thousands of dollars of farm subsidies don’t count as government support, but those medicare/public housing/food stamps recipients need to grow some fucking boot straps. FUUUUUUCK you can’t argue with…