But they are addressing the fact that there’s no justice in response to these incidents, so I would still say they are not distracting from “the real issues.” Lack of justice is a real issue; racism within our justice system is as well.

What do people think that black lives matter IS about? And what are those issues that are supposedly more real than, you know, racist police officers killing black people?

I tend to try the whole product line at first, but am open to switching if it doesn’t all work. For instance on my face I use serum and moisturizer from the same line (philosophy), but for my hair I don’t because I need the dandruff shampoo but head & shoulders makes absolute crap conditioner. I figure sometimes you…

HOW random is this—I’d been looking for exactly that color for months now! I found a pot of creme shadow in that color from Maybeline, got to the register at the drug store and the clerk declared that he could not sell it to me, the bar code turned up an error and it shouldn’t have been on the shelf because it had…

“When you’re saving for yourself, you’re refusing to bet on yourself”

And they totes succeeded, based purely on the fact that this is the second ‘response’ article I’ve seen to it in my daily reads.

My cat has instructed that two cats is too many. She is very possessive of her humans and her toys, and does not like sharing. Mayyyyybe when she’s old and lazy, we’ll see if she’ll tolerate a little kitten running around.

oh, she wishes! No, I meant as opposed to husband’s side of the bed. He already encroaches onto my side by about 10%, so husband + kitty take up at least 35% of my “half,” leaving me with 32.5% of the total bed . If I’d let her, the cat would take up half of my half, leaving me with less room than she gets! Everyone…

you know, after I spent half the night fighting with designcat over how much of my side of the bed she was allowed to bogard (no more than 1/4, please!) this looks like an excellent idea.

The head of my office just sent around an email saying that our usual wednesday evening activities are cancelled so that they can put the debate on the projector and we can all watch together.

yeah, while I think the defendant was clearly up to some shady shit here, if I were on a jury I’d have a hard time convicting because the role-play defense definitely constitutes reasonable doubt on the surface. I guess I can only hope that the details as presented in testimony made things more clear.

I suppose I was thinking of more mundane problems—like terrible self esteem, lack of comfort in clothing that feels like showing off, makeup, etc. Then even if she did dress up to try and perform the way she knows she needs to in order to get attention, she’d be showing signs of discomfort the whole time, which are a…

Thank you as well. I’m way late to the SNS party, but I feel like we’ve gotten into a bunch of little conversations lately and I really appreciate you being around.

I’m a big fan of podcasts, and listen to NPR on my headphones at work. I also listen to one called Too Beautiful To Live, which is comedy/current events based, and the guys that run it are actually feminists, so, bonus points.

You shouldn’t have to feel stupid—go ahead and revel in this feeling, for it is rare and special.

oh yeah, I’m by no means perfect. I crave sugar constantly (one of the many excellent products of my thyroid imbalance), but I’m trying really hard to get it under control. I allow myself two desserts a week and pretty much avoid added sugar and refined carbs as much as possible all other times. If I try to go without…

Unfortunately, I’ve had therapists who couldn’t put aside their own issues and see me clearly either. It’s far too common, but I hope that discussing it prompts more people to realize that they deserve better and fire their therapist when they aren’t actually helping.

I’ve been in this zone all weekend after seeing myself on video Friday afternoon. I’ve realized that basically the only way I’m able to handle all the terrible, awful, shame-y, blame-y messages I hear every day is to be like “nope, that’s not me, that’s those other people. The ones who eat fast food and potato chips…

I don’t own my own business, but my husband does (started it just before we met) so I get to see a lot behind the scenes. My advice is: make sure you have a plan in place for who makes what types of decisions, and what happens if you disagree. Make sure you have a process for changing the way you do things, because…

That just means that you’ll be better ranked before we come up to south bend and beat you in four weeks. Enjoy it while it lasts.