“Gaylord College” is the school of journalism at the University of Oklahoma. It is not its own institution.

And she teaches at the Gaylord College of Mass Comm at the University of Oklahoma. Basic fact checking is missing.

Years ago when my employer was regularly bouncing between different health plans, I’d get a doctor who would tell me to take fish oil, garlic, D3, and a B supplement, and the next year I'd get a different doctor who would tell me they were all worthless. This cycle happened three times.

Makes perfect sense.

I lasted about 15 minutes. Some of the most vacuous, fawning bullshit I have ever seen. 

I’ll turn your question back on you.

Is it colorism to point out colorism? Here’s a hint: is it racism to point out racism?

What you are missing is that she didn’t criticize his choice of wife. She just pointed out the pattern of all of these wives being light. It’s not a flaw on the women’s part, nor a question of their blackness. What is being pointed out is the pattern of preference on the part of the rappers.
Let me also point out that…

can you distract them with something? perhaps a hoop and stick or some corn husk dolls?

Um, okay. Mine isn’t a fireworks blowout, but just sort of sad. Friend and I met as freshman roommates, and we remained roommates throughout college. Went to each other’s homes for vacations, etc. Really close friends. After college, friend moved overseas for a job, and I stayed for grad school, but we saw each other…

Does a therapist count? “Just because she’s your mother doesn’t mean you have to love her.”

OK but how do I join W.I.T.C.H

Thank you for sharing this. My husband grew up with two great (not perfect, but very loving) parents and I couldn’t help but pick up on his unspoken suspicion, early on, of “what’s wrong with her that she’s not close with her parents?” Then he met them and it clicked. I didn’t cut off my mother for over a year because…

This is very good advice. My family wasn’t perfect, but we managed to figure it out. One side of my Wife’s family has been nothing but toxic for her pretty much her whole life.
When we first met we were in our early 20s and in a phase of life where lots of people are trying to be more independent of their families.…

One of the other things to think through is how to work with your SO on this. I came from a pretty idyllic family, my wife did not. When she started to talk about cutting one of her sisters completely out of her life, I looked at her like an extra head just grew out of her shoulders. I resisted and pushed her to do…

Agreed. This is such a weird take. It was probably my favorite movie of the year.

my takeaway was definitely different.

. . . a docuseries of sorts where employees are thrown into Goop-y experiences, like well-groomed lab rats in luxury cashmere.

Her “lifestyle”?

Just reading the title of this piece makes my heart pound and my breath catch. Thanks for the CPTSD, rotten narcissistic family that never failed to somehow destroy me every single holiday. And is still at it.