My mom raised my high school aged sister and preschool/elementary aged me on around 20k a year by herself, and never openly complained once. She lost her house (after the divorce), and still somehow hid the fact that we were poor from us. She had no time for bullshit, and was a firece mama bear (still is). I will…

I appreciated this when I saw it shared this weekend. Single working mom of 3 - my husband died 3 years ago so there’s no dad to take the kids on weekends or to pick up the slack. It’s incredibly hard and sometimes I just am desperate for someone - anyone - to actually understand. There’s no fix or real help that…

The narrative of the shrill, “dramatic,” slightly unhinged woman is so pervasive that the media tries to shoe-horn any woman who dares show a shred of disappointment or annoyance even for a perfectly understandable reason.

Step one: DON’T PUT IT IN THE MICROWAVE, YOU DRIVELING HEATHEN.

The English have victimized most of the people on the planet, to some varying degree.

It’s an example of a thread that certain people who claim to be historians have turned into a rope. Like just about any other people, the Irish have been slaves and slaveholders throughout history. However, the Irish slave experience in the Americas, which was used by the English as a way to rid their territories of…

I mean, being shitty to costars is not excusable but all she said about Knocked Up was that having the male characters portrayed as fun and lovable despite being immature manchildren while the women telling them to grow up were portrayed as shrill not-fun harpies was “kind of sexist,” which is true. And then she said…

I have 3 girls.

Convenient how at the end no one mentions that this is how he talks about US. An ad full of women, and no, we’re not upset on account of our little old selves, heavens no! We’re just upset that he’s talking this way about men’s wives! Men’s sisters! Men’s DAUGHTERS!