In her defense, I imagine that once you’re famous it’s hard to do anything else besides milking what you can out of your public persona. Who’s going to hire “Octomom”, and all the baggage that comes with the title?

I actually understand why Kate had to keep the kids in the spotlight: jon was useless and unemployed and 8 kids (especially when 6 of them had spent time in NICU) are really expensive.  Same deal with OutDaughtered. Multiple births are expensive and there are big medical bills to pay off even if you have good health…

Michelle Duggar makes her toddlers wear long skirts so their little baby legs don’t tempt men, allowed her daughters to be molested by their brother and then covered it up, actively works to make life hell for transgender people, and has robbed her older children of their childhoods by making them essentially toil in…

Nadya Suleman was clearly someone who wasn’t “all there” and that was part of the media’s obsession with her. She was “irresponsible” and “crazy” but Michelle Duggar getting pregnant until she died/until she couldn’t be pregnant anymore was a wholesome narrative about self-sufficiency and “personal accountability”

I see you’ve found your way from r/ChoosingBeggars

I had been a poor student for years, sleeping on an air mattress in a sleeping bag, when my mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her I wanted a duvet to replace my sleeping bag and a real suitcase to replace a weathered duffel bag. She implied she had some extra money that year and asked if I had a…

Man, all this time I thought it was me or my device! Thanks for speaking up.

Do any of your coders know that this shit doesn’t load? I’ve given up on knowing what the hell youre talking about when all I see is a huge white space.

Super DUPER happy fun time when said 2-year-old is non-white, poor, and living in a single-parent-family in a blue state.

I love when people bitch about things like fetal tissue and are then shocked that there isn’t a cure for their particular variety of cancer or a surplus of lab-grown livers for their cirrhosis or whatever.

It blows my mind the sacrifices pro-lifers will make for the pre-born while they’re totally cool with a societal system that has made it financially burdensome for anyone but the rich to procreate, school systems that fail to properly educate while simultaneously endangering children, gutting social services for…

I’m not a doctor by any means, but I find it stunningly, ghoulishly hilarious that these people seem to legitimately believe researchers are, like, chopping up babies on a cutting board or something.

god this is the worst part of vacation. and living in LA. i definitely go out of my way to accidentally get in their way somehow lol

How can any sane person be convinced that this woman is doing the right thing? These people were fucking defrauded and her response to this rule is “nope, not happening.” I want to replace every chair in her office with a cactus. Up yours, Betsy. 

This past summer, while the Hubs and I were on our annual Okanagan holiday, was the first time Instagram Influencers showed up at one of the spa resorts we treat ourselves to. I have never seen an influencer in action and it’s kind of horrifying to watch. The makeup is just so, full on slap at all times. The hair is…

And Carrie Underwood did not get famous from radio, she won American Idol.  And that was 13 years ago.

Most of those acts debuted over a decade ago if not earlier, and haven’t had hits in years assuming they’re still making music. You might as well say you don’t understand why rock music is a sausagefest, what about Aimee Lee, Avril Lavigne, and Joan Jet.

You’d honestly be more likely to hear those artists get air time on an adult contemporary radio station than modern country.

Most of the women you named got famous years or decades ago. I know when I listen to country radio (a somewhat guilty pleasure) the station plays maybe 1 female artist to every 8 or 9 men. I even went to their website to verify this, since they have their playlist of what’s playing fully listed there, and it is much,…

Interesting as well that these are women dominated fields and at times publicly funded or supported. We think very little about women, very little about the value of the contributions of women, but also very little about the health and stability of the collective which directly or indirectly is related to the value of…