I’ve never been a beauty queen, but I did used to take for granted some of the attention and favors I got.
Then I turned 50, and became invisible. Which I’ve actually started to appreciate! And I have a better rapport with men now because I don’t worry that they think I’m hitting on them. 

My BFF’s husband didn’t even remember I was with her the night they met, when recollecting the night much later he thought she was alone. Because yeah, sure, conventionally hot young women go clubbing by themselves on New Year’s Eve all the time, it makes way more sense she was there by herself rather than with her…

Same thing happened to me when I got a facelift about 20 years ago. I went from having doors slammed in my face and being essentially invisible, to having those doors once again held open, seats offered and being hit on.

When I met my husband I was 180 lbs (I am 5'10) and my highest was 245 (pregnant), current weight is 225 lbs. He has never judged me or thought of me as disgusting. Loves me top to bottom.

It’s so frustrating isn’t it that in even some fairly mainstream feminist spheres thin privilege and beauty privilege are still touchy subjects. Thin privilege discourse can get derailed by the usual boring concerntrolling about health. And I think people don’t like talking about beauty privilege sometimes as they’re…

I gained a lot of weight a couple years ago, which I have since dropped. I was amazed at the different ways I was treated.
The weird thing is, when I was larger I could’ve used that help (opening doors, picking things up, etc) a lot more than when I was smaller. It was truly a learning experience. 

After I dropped 40 pounds, I had two longtime guy friends suddenly decide that they saw me in a Different Way. Did I want to date them? No, I did not because they lacked so much self-awareness. I also had an ex decide I was The One after all, and he swears it had nothing to do with my "dramatic transformation." (His…

My father, who was a terrible parent in so many ways, taught me very few life lessons. One of them was: everyone has a price; those who say they don't only means they haven't found the right price yet. 

McCarthy can have ALL the seats. The President of people that don’t wash their legs sent that roving pack of non chicken washing, non lotion having (I babysat for a white family they had zero lotion in the house), calls only salt and pepper seasoning having 99% of them white folks down there to try to kill people. I…

When Biden announced he was running, I audibly groaned. “No one wants Biden to be president!,” I said. I thought there was no way anyone would go out of their way to vote for him.

Honestly, I'm looking at Harris. She's going to be a pivotal force in this administration and not just because of her role in the Senate. 

YouTube journalist = two words that should never be beside each other. 

In terms of theory of why was it effective for him and not Clinton, I think it could be that the message sounds different after 8 years from Obama than after 4 years of Trump. Suddenly what sounds political before, now sounds totally different after that environment.

I’m not really expecting anything impressive from him, I don’t think he’ll be a particularly interesting or even particularly good president. He has, however, already done something very very important - get rid of Trump, and if that’s the best thing he ever does, then that’ll still enough.

Also, judging from this profile pic, I’m pretty sure Stephen Miller is just planning on posing as Secret Service and squatting at the White House for as long as possible.

There has been plenty of cause to criticize Biden over the last couple of years (really, his entire career), and there will be plenty of cause to criticize him over the next 4 (or 8 or whatever). But for now, credit where credit’s due...I’ve been almost nothing but impressed with him since about April.

“Wake up,” another wrote. “We’ve been had.”

“A lot of YouTube journalists have just lost one hell of a lot of credibility,”