That shirtdress is an unacceptable length. Acceptable longer lengths are:

I read the WaPo article this morning - she demonstrated that prior to this couple charging forward with their public shaming crusade she was booked months in advance and had a thriving business in Dallas for years. Since the crusade she has sign two couples. Two. She had gone through her savings and retirement fund.

It was in the contract and was in the FAQs. Customers could choose a wide variety of designs for the cover so the cost was separate and specified, all of which is in the embedded links in the article you linked to.

Fuck these people.

Justine was a dear friend who was horrified about police violence and committed to making the world better in every way. She had just picked out her wedding dress last week and was so excited to show me. She was texting me trying to get me to go to “dance church” with her on sunday morning, but instead I went to a…

Just a quick anecdote about the school lunch program - my sister is a kindergarten on a reservation where the food is, to put it mildly, insanely bad. Her kids were always hungry because the school lunch was the only full meal a lot of them had a day and it was nutritionally barren. She would buy huge boxes of granola…

That sucks. How about I send you some thoughts and prayers, then? That should clear it right up!

I think some die-hard Republican voters have internalized this philosophy, and blame themselves if they fall on hard times or get sick. It’s one way the Republican Party continues to get their votes. They think if they can just be better people, they’ll have better lives, and of course they are working on being better…

“If they are able-bodied and they want to work, then they’ll have employer-sponsored benefits like you and I do,”

They don’t care. I’ve said this in many a comment but it bears repeating - My father is a Trump supporter. My husband is a cancer survivor. What do you think my father said to me when I told him how worried I was about the Republican plan to eliminate the ACA? “Get over it or move to Canada.” My own father. He looked…

Oh, I’m sure they have them, but they probably think that chronic pain and mental illness really aren’t that serious and those suffering from them are ‘just being overdramatic’ or some such. They only really see sickness and disability when it’s unmistakable and visibly right in their face, and even then, they like to…

At its root, the Republican narrative regarding healthcare always reminds me of pre-modern Christian attitudes toward suffering - i.e., whatever its cause, your individual suffering is God’s will, and your job is to bear it stoically, since to do otherwise is to go against God’s will. According to this ideology,…

yes, i am freaking out. no, i dont have any encouragement and i am sorry for that. my coping has been limited to drinking and napping.

According to my licensed, practicing Registered Nurse mother, mental illness is not real. You are just weak and need to just work more so that you don’t have time to focus on being unhappy. I’m not bipolar either, I just haven’t acquired enough useless junk to distract me (or simply hoarded enough to fall on me and…

Here’s what I don’t get - do these politicians seriously not have family members or close friends who have had cancer, or chronic neck/back/hip/knee/etc. pain, or mental illness, or any other serious conditions? Like, how do they so thoroughly lack an understanding of what this will do to middle-class people? Or do…

I just can’t anymore. I have bipolar disorder and, trust me, if there was a way to avoid it I would have done it by now. It sucks. Do they not hear the words coming out of their mouths???

I’ve been to vineyards in France, California, New York- it’s something I’m interested in. I love wine. My husband works for a wine distributer. But I don’t drink it every day and I’ve found wine hangovers to be the worst, so I moderate. The brands that pursue the type of marketing people here are talking about- that’s…

That certainly wasn’t my experience in several parts of Europe, where a glass of wine every day seemed pretty typical, often at lunch. But it is hard to judge the daily life of europeans, as I didn’t live there. And, I don’t disagree with you re:the “mommy juice” BS, which is just a small way for women to buck the…

But also, what if she did want to go home and have sex with him, and changed her mind when she saw his doll collection or something? The idea that if we start down a path with a man we can’t change our minds is fucking gross. If I start eating a pizza and hate it, do I need to keep going? Do you shove it into my mouth…

No problem! I’m all about introspection and trying to figure out why we behave the way we do.