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I’m clearly going to be in the minority here, but that so rarely happens these days. Ghosting is the standard with a lot of people. He may not have said things in the most graceful way, but he acknowledged the idea that ghosting is commonplace and that he didn’t want to do it. Texting is tricky (which is why I hate…

This exact thing happened to me but with two interviews and it’s my dream job. I’m in academia (a state institution) and it was summer so faculty was off, turns out my now-dean had health issues and it’s a bureaucracy. So no one could move to the next step in the process without each being available to do his/her…

No, I’m boycotting. It’s really that simple for me. I’m not on social media, but I need to find out if Black women are boycotting in large numbers. We’re the largest group of fiction readers last I heard. I’m sure the Simon and Schuster umbrella corp makes a lot off of us.

Ditto. It’s great to text my cousin some throwback music news that isn’t tragic for once.

You have to talk about it. There are benefits and challenges, I’m sure, for each of you in this next possible chapter. If you do move to the States and you’re not clear with her about your concerns, that’s build resentment.

I’m sending good vibes your way. Unfortunately, I think that’s abusive language. You don’t speak to your spouse that way. You shouldn’t speak to coworkers or friends that way. Words hurt terribly. I’ve been alone in a relationship and everyone deserves better than this.

We have that sippy cup.

She needed to soundcheck both of her songs. I mean, come on. She said we didn’t soundcheck one and the other’s just the straight album version.

I feel you because I hate songs from my retails days that I don’t dare type here or they’ll be in my head forever. But, I was a pre-employment eighth grader when Emotions came out and that’s still my favorite cut from her. Well, that and Vision of Love.

It is what it is.

Yeah, that’s not what you ever, ever tell a child. Children are just short adults. They’re smart and figure things out for themselves. And when they do, they’ll remember what was said about the other parent. Any friends who cosigned on you telling your daughter things like that are terrible people. And if you never…

So, I went through a custody process almost two years ago. My ex was abusive and, as an abuser, obviously scorched the earth and poisoned the wells to “get what he wanted” in terms of custody. What he really wanted was to hurt me, not custody of our child. He has a child older than mine and the older one sees him and…

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I agree with you. I also think the Catholic church gets that poor people in the developing world are more willing to hear what you have to say if you’re feeding them. Oy. The church is so manipulative.

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I’m a Black woman and, while the stereotype is that we like to “go off” in public, we often can’t. The po-lice don’t play.

Yes, they have nothing better to do. That’s why their numbers are dwindling in Western nations because they’re dying on this anti-marriage equality hill.

I was trying to find this letter from my city’s Catholic bishop in response to his canceling a sister’s lgbt-affirming talk with PFLAG. Can’t find it, but I remember nearly driving my car off the road when my local NPR reported that he said something like “debate on the matter of homosexuality has been long closed in…

I wouldn’t be bothered by that because you’re a feminist. Hopefully, your male friends are feminists, too. And, I think, it’s a good thing that your closest female friends have similar experiences. We gravitate toward people who get our own particular social realities.