Right. The play is so obvious. She prob originally went uncredited in order to not overshadow rihanna,as if she could tho, nothing to do with calvin. Then later just to be petty, she leaks to people mag that she wrote it, the narrative being look at how mean calvin was to me and took credit cause I did everything…

Yeah, I’ve often come in early, left late, worked for an “underling.” Since my job is largely stationary and theirs are on the floor, I’ve even let them park their kids in my office, where I’d get them to start their homework and wait for dad/grandma/babysitter to pick them up. Last week, I had a mildly ill kid (sent…

What blows me away — in addition to all the other reasons outlined by Alison Green — is that the manager never offers to come in early and cover for her. When I was a manager, I would stay late with employees to help them finish earlier and get out of the office. Or I’d come in early to help them if they needed it.…

The.

It’s adorable how you, a foreigner, have no idea of the realities of Blackness in America. Black people here are not at all making any decisions to come to your country and do anything. The idea that Black people are “all equally American occupiers” is laughable to anyone who acknowledges our history and current…

We just get lip service in the hope that we will pipe down and go away. Nobody really wants to discuss the plight of blacks in this country because that would mean a lot of our “allies” would have to confront their privilege that think thing they don’t have.

I would like for people, esp. other people of color, to stop acting as if black people are in this privileged position where everybody takes our concerns more seriously than they take the concerns of other marginalized groups.

Someone commented on another post:

my wife and I would mourn the death of my chubs too.

It’s a good thing my dog is going to live forever and I won’t have to go through this.

when i got my (totally free) IUD, i called my boyfriend shrieking with glee. when he understood what the full protection of an IUD meant for him, he was also shrieking with glee.

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys/don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks/make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such/mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys/they never stay home and they’re always alone/even with someone they love.

John Adams: “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.”