The NYTimes has been publishing a lot opinion pieces lately that seems designed to outrage progressives - like they are trolling for rage clicks.

To be fair to Meghan, Kate’s is officially the Greatest Wedding Gown of All Time (having narrowly edged out Grace Kelly’s).

Something about Terrence Howard has always freaked me out, long before the domestic abuse allegations, and it has nothing to do with the color of his skin. He’s actively, menacingly repugnant. Like, if you told me there were Lizard People who wore human skins, I’d laugh in your face. But if you told me Howard was…

Maybe a less beardy beard... such as

When I was a little kid I had myself a crush on John Travolta. I was at a State Fair with my family and I won a mirror with his silhouette on it. This was the late 70's, those little mirrors were popular. I was in love with my Travolta mirror! I took loving care of it, wiping it every day with glass cleaner. I didn’t…

I’m the adult child of an alcoholic. I’ve spent my childhood pouring my mother back into bed, trying to keep her from feeding chocolate to dogs, listening to the frankly bizarre BS that would fall out of her mouth. From the age of six I’ve been my mom’s adult. She gets drunk now and complains that I won’t give her…

This is a weird day for me for the first time ever. My mom and maternal grandma are alive, my MIL is alive (and we have a good relationship). All that stuff is good. This year, however, my husband and I are trying to reproduce and we’re only 5 cycle in but it feels weird-sad to see everyone’s social media posts and…

My mother passed away almost five weeks ago and I also follow Billie on IG. When I saw her post, I was grateful for the reprieve from all the pics of daughters with their mothers, enjoying the day together. Its not that I’m jealous, I’m grateful that these women don’t have to experience what I’m going through because…

My late husband always wanted kids. I was less sold, but was of the ‘I won’t regret it, probably’ land. So many of his friends now have new kids, and were all sharing about it today. Just made it painful for me about how much he wanted a kid, and never got one (for the better. This shit is rough enough without having…

Solidarity sister. 👊

Yeah, all my Instagram feed has done today is make me cry for the relationship I’ll never have with my mom. Sending internet hugs in solidarity to you.

I’m having a much rougher Mother’s Day than I had anticipated. Two weeks ago I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer and just found out that they’re going to do a hysterectomy in a couple of weeks to remove the cancer. I’m incredibly grateful that I’ll recover from this, but indescribably sad that I will never get to…

It’s a lovely thought, having a day dedicated to mothers. But it only makes me feel guilty for not feeling how I should, I suppose, towards my mother. I see everyone getting their mom gifts and making sweet FB posts and I just... Can’t do that with the way things are right now. Not in good conscience. And unless a…

Today can be rough. I always said if I designed cards I would make a category of Mother’s Day cards that were emotionless and very matter of fact. I think there would be a market.

My dear friend’s husband was diagnosed with cancer less than 4 weeks ago and passed away in her arms last night. They have three young children. The email she wrote this morning to her friends and family about their love and life together was incredible. I don’t speak to my mom. I’m spending today in bed with my cat…

I have a difficult relationship with my mom for a variety of reasons. The past is the past and I’m basically over it, but what I struggle with now is that it just keeps going—people never stop guilt tripping me over why I’m not close with my mom (even strangers), the reminders of the family you’re “supposed” to have…

Fucking this. I’m having a different flavor of not-so-great Mother’s Day—the kind where you are a mother who feels unappreciated—and it feels like fucking Happy Mother’s Day is EVERYWHERE. Can’t imagine what it would feel like to be grieving the loss of a mother at this time. So—if you’re having a not-so-great…

My dad’s mother (*not* my granFanda) wasn’t a huge part of my childhood. She hated my mother, was estranged from my dad (her youngest child) for most of his life and had little interest in me or my siblings until after puberty. She smoke cigars, grew, made and sold her own salsa in addition to a dozen other small-time…

Just want to send some love to all the people who never had a mother figure, are missing someone, who’s mothers aren’t good to them or make the mother-child relationship difficult. In some ways I’m close to mine, and in others I continue to be hurt by her. Mother’s Day is a really shitty holiday for a lot of people,…

Again, as a rape survivor myself, and as someone that knows full-well what it is like to be triggered, you do not have the right to segregate people just because they make you uncomfortable. You do not have the right to put other women at risk because you’re afraid of dicks. And it is transphobic as fuck to compare…