I'm glad they helped you! I know a lot of people have found them to be invaluable.

First Friends!

Thank you.

I'm not discouraging anybody. I'm saying be aware that these lines are not staffed by magic angels who will fix all your shit. It's just regular people, and some of those regular people are not good at it and can make you feel worse.

People have been posting these helplines a lot over the last few days but I have had some terrible experiences. Being told snottily and impatiently to "just stop crying." I've been hung up on repeatedly (again for crying and for asking them to stop saying over and over again "oh everything will be fine" when I just…

It's gross and inappropriate. Which is exactly what I say, in a voice that carries, when people do that to me. "Oh it's harmless! It's a compliment!" No it's not. It's trying to force an interaction and it's wrong. Yeah, it may be harmless most of the time, but it's still gross and rude. There is zero argument that…

You are a truly worthless human being.

The person that made list is completely unaware of what life is like for many women in US. It's just straight ignorance. Additionally, we can't say there is no FGM here either. It's a person that genuinely seems to believe that feminism was a 70s thing like disco, and is now just another silly thing.

I asked, quite politely, for clarification. Perhaps you are projecting.

That's kinda the point.

You take it seriously enough to comment here. Why is that?

If you don't believe in the rapture why would you let them tell your child that?

Aha hahahaha. Men's Wrongs Activists!

Rihanna does look gorgeous but she fades real quick next to Iman and Naomi. But I do feel (and that is feel, not think) more Grace Jones-y than Inuit when I look at the pics of just her. The harnessing of a wildness, but still dangerous.

There should be changing tables in BOTH bathrooms. Both. Do I think you should be changing a baby at the table? Ugh no. Particularly at that age when they really do sometimes rocket liquid poop across the room.

Crawfish boil is the superior mate to hush puppies. After you dip your tails in butter and horseradish the hush puppy soothes your mouth and the sweetness means you don't have to save room for dessert.