I get why you’re prickly about this, but you can’t just look at this as an isolated thing, and going all #notallwhitepeople isn’t helping the conversation. Tone policing has a loooooooong history, and has been used a) by men to shut down women and b) by whites to shut down POCs. So, when someone who looks like Miley…

You get it.

Tone policing black women is pretty damn white, and if you don’t want to be lumped in with Miley, maybe don’t engage in it yourself?

I didn’t even consider that... UGHHHHHHH. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

Especially if the porn star’s account is true. If he likes sex as rough and degrading as she says, and Anna has never had any other sexual experiences before, no discussion, no other personal or secondhand account to go off of, and she is also just expected to submit, I can see all of that going very south very fast.…

This explains so much. Where I live, fundamentalism is not common at all. But I’ve noticed a similar kind of thing with some very religious acquaintances. Happy smiling all the time, soft-spoken and ultra feminine always, everything is love and blessed. Facebook posts of a painting featuring Santa Claus and Jesus in…

His infidelity is just the sick cherry on top of a super creepy and sad sundae.

Yeah. I just...yeah. I’m so glad I was born to the parents I had who let me rage out when I needed, cry when necessary, be happy for joyous events and grow up learning how to manage the range of emotions that happen in this here life thing.

no that occurred to me too. Michelle is so the “perfect wife and mother” who feels she MUST pass down her knowledge she would feel that something must be said to the woman that failed her son.

Her brother said their parents don’t want her to leave because if “how it will look” to people they know. Unbelievable. I would NEVER council my daughters to stay in a situation like this. But then again I’m also not down with this religious indoctrination.

I wish I could say this was uncommon. But growing up in fundamentalism, we were taught that the only acceptable emotion was happy and blessed. You weren’t allowed to be angry or sad or disappointed. I wasn’t in a cult like this (Thank the Lord,) but what I was taught wasn’t so different. I actually had to learn how to…

I think no snark is the appropriate response. This shit is so sad. And it has to be looked at through the lens of the cult. She was raised in a cult, she has lived in one her whole life. She is quite literally brain washed. It breaks my heart. It is so difficult to get away from any cult, much less one that you've…

Maybe I’m rusty from being away for so long, but I have no snark for her. I legitimately feel sorry for her. To feel so trapped that you can’t leave your husband after you find out he’s molested 5 little girls, most being his sisters, is a horror I could never imagine. His infidelity is just the sick cherry on top of…

Yeah, this. The state governor (who opposed same-sex marriage) has already called her out and told her she needs to do her job since it’s now the law of the land. She refuses and, as she’s elected, he can’t fire her.

Oh god. Can you imagine how insufferable she would be if she actually got thrown into jail? She thinks she’s some kind of modern-day Christian martyr as it is. I can hear the violins already.

We had a cat who used to hunt and catch the desert roaches. We’d get up in the morning and find little roach legs on the floor. We would good boy that cat like anything.

I made it through school without lice, and I am nearly positive this is due to the 2+ hours a day I spent in a well-chlorinated pool.

Lice like clean hair. So, the not washing every day and the styling products help. I learned this the hard way when my son was in 2nd grade.