I LOVE the notes. Granted, there are times I make fun of them but I would miss them if they disappeared.

My daughter has celiac disease so our whole house is gluten free. I was hoping for some measurable health benefits or weight loss but NOPE.

He’s been a 9/11 and Obama citizenship truther for years. That would be a surprisingly long con.

A friend just went through this (preventative double mastectomy with reconstruction) and her boobs look amazing. And by “amazing” I mean very much how they looked before, which is exactly what she wanted.

Totally agree. My mom considered reconstructive surgery after cancer and decided against it. I have another friend who had augmentation because she was lopsided by nearly 2 cup sizes.

Yay, an inspiring, non-embarrassing story from my home state!

Same here, if it’s not Dr is Mr or Ms. Always.

Not in my world. If I were thinking of an offensive stereotype for Kool-aid, it would be closer to white trash. But I think of it more as for everyone except rich people. I drank Kool-aid growing up.

What about the girls who join ISIS and then beat the women of Raqqa who wear their abayas too tight or step out of line in some way? It’s not only the men terrorizing people there. We don’t know the story with these girls, of course, but it’s pretty hard for me to feel sympathy for girls and women who freely chose to…

She just had surgery for a tumor in her stomach last week and she’s had celiac disease for a long time. Maybe the “all clear” announcement was premature.

My husband owns an investment company and they recently went through a round of hiring. Finance is another male-dominated field and they made efforts to recruit women specifically. The partners also sweetened the deal with some very generous family leave benefits, available for both men and women. That strategy has…

I think you are probably right about that. I have a teenaged daughter who is interested in pursuing tech / engineering. It doesn’t bother her that she’s one of the only girls on the robotics team and the few others are doing the marketing and outreach part of the competition. When she heard that few girls take AP…

Maybe they’ll go work at Amazon.

It could also be chalked up to where I lived and that my parents were liberal hippies in a conservative town.

IDK what happened here but if Homeland is to be believed, the torso of a suicide bomber often remains intact.

From what I remember, and mind you I was 9 at the time, it was because SW had a black character. There was not a term for “PC” then but that was the sentiment...that it was too PC.

I was (unsuccessfully) being sarcastic. I’ve read lots of remarks about this Star Wars being “too PC” for that reason and others.

I had a 1977 Princess Leia action figure and still have it at my mom’s house. Maybe they are talking about later years or bigger versions (I have all the characters and they are about 4-5” tall) but my Leia still wears the white “help me obi-wan, you’re my only hope” dress and her hair is in buns.

Agree, but I think a sizable chunk of these people wouldn’t have even bothered to write it in a diary before Yik Yak. There are a ton of racists but also a ton of agitators and devil’s-advocate types who just want to watch it all burn.

Right? It’s the same shit when anyone calls out ANY injustice.