All the ways that society tells us black women don’t matter, regardless of race or pedigree. Imagine if a young white woman physician in a trauma center in Chicago was gunned down. All the headlines would be about her as you don’t get a “worthier victim” than that. But even when it is our best and brightest, we are…

I feel like this says more about the way society tells people to think about domestic violence as somehow less serious, or something understandable.

For quite a long time. Decades and decades. It’s a personal service (someone cleaning up your room) for which you are, theoretically, gracious. Thus, a small gratuity. Worth every penny.

Well, in the US hotels are able to pay housekeepers very little by shifting the burden to the guests in the form of tips - much as restaurants do. 

For the first half of my life I traveled on the cheap. As in REALLY cheap. I researched every location for the cheapest hotels, the cheapest restaurants, the cheapest entertainment, etc. I didn’t do this because I was necessarily cheap. I just liked to travel and I was poor. Many times I refused to let anyone ever…

I get mine done every 2-3 weeks. Mostly because my own lashes are boring but it’s an expense I can afford. I went to one lashtician who used Xtream Lash products. That was about $300 for a full set and the shits would almost immediately fall out. For some time I stopped because the more clients she got, the more her…

I know the people at Orlando Food Not Bombs (an amazing organization that has repeatedly won tough legal fights) and they will be the first to tell you that this is how it starts.

Yeah, that’s what the honeymoon is for. Or maybe the morning after the wedding? It’s just a weird idea.

I had a devout Catholic friend who sincerely believed that good sex and multiple orgasms were a reward for waiting*. She bragged to us that she’d be having all this great sex on her wedding night and she’d be begging her new husband for more every minute.

“Stop coming to the Root then.”

The free exercise of speech is a constitutional right. So what if it’s in front of his house? As long as they’re in a public street and not on his property and they aren’t committing violence or threatening it they have every right to protest.

The “two wrongs don’t make a right” crowd are being disingenuous fucks, especially when Fucker Carlson makes these veiled racist comments on a nightly basis AND his viewer base eats it up like Golden Corral’s buffet.

This comment is pointless bullshit. The right wing creates what ever narrative it wants. Reality does not matter.

Not even close. One uncomfortable night isn’t comparable to him fearmongering rubes every damn day. As long as they don’t get violent I’m all for them protesting in front of his crib.

I don’t see what’s so bad. He’s been instrumental in getting millions angry to the point where they’re cool(er) with ICE agents stealing parents from their homes, even after they drop their kids at school. He’s been instrumental at getting millions of people cool(er) with ripping families apart at the border, and…

While Fox News lives for shit like this...I ain’t really mad. I hope MPD was their usual lazy selves in response.

I desperately wanted the guy from NBC to just smoothly hand his mic back over to Acosta for his turn. That, or ask the same question Acosta was going to ask. All with a shit-eating grin. I’m glad he did at least verbally try to defend Acosta.

I also get the dissatisfaction and distrust, but this is negligent and irresponsible. I’m sorry for her loss, but a reasonable person would have sought some legitimate help when labour lasted this long (at 42 weeks, which already significantly raises the risk of stillbirth) or when they hadn’t urinated for more than…

WTF is the point of living in modern times if a person doesn’t avail herself of some of its luxuries, like a freaking pre-natal appointment to a midwife or something? Yet she will chatter on FB about the “primal instinct” that takes over. Guess what? Birthing can be pretty deadly, just look at history. But no, the…

It was pitched to me in my old jiu jitsu classes (where we also learned weapon defense) that a knife is way more dangerous than a gun. A gun has a single angle of attack: straight ahead. The moment the barrel isn’t facing you, it’s useless. Also, handguns are shitty to aim, and they’re remarkably delicate. If the…