I hope it's ok to put in my $0.02.

FA is tremendously important to me - I have yo-yo'd my whole life but it's important to me because the state of my body has not changed the state of my worth. It should not be a topic of conversation, and my appearance should not dictate a conversation about health. The point of the FA movement is to completely…

I kind of love this owl....can it come swoop down on the annoying joggers where I live?? Especially the ones that"need" to jog with a baby in a stroller in subfreezing temperatures...(that bothers the shit out of me....jog if you must...leave the kid with the nanny where it's warm....yes they all have nannies where I…

I saw her speak in 1999. Her talk made me interested in being part of the Prison Abolition Movement and fight against things like the Prison Industrial Complex.

That is very fair. :)

I am SO impressed by the fact that the CEO is taking full responsibility & is leading a charge on ending this harassment. Obviously I am slightly skeptical that this is only lip service but he seems genuine in the memos. I hope that other social media networks will follow Twitters lead and tell the trolls to GTFO &…

"This is the first installment of "Fake Friends," a series about fictional female friendships"

I really don't think anyone who has ever been proudly owned by a toddler would agree that said toddler doesn't have the strength to pull a trigger. My sprogget is STRONG. He's just 2, and I can not get him to let go of whatever he has this time. I absolutely believe he could pull the trigger on a gun.

Yeah because classism, racism and sexism are so mutually exclusive and none of these things can intersect. Ugh. These discourses depend on each other and feed off one another but of course anything that makes white people feel better about themselves is the dominant narrative.

OMG, this guy.

I blame the glorification of thuggishness that pervades white culture...a level of disrespect that is too often passed down from white parents (especially white single parents) to their white children.

Exactly. I start conversations with cute guys or interesting-looking chicks fairly often, in bars or in line at the post office or wherever there's people and time to kill. And since I'm neither a moron nor an asshole, I can tell the damn difference between "nervous/bashful talking to a stranger" and "not interested,…

If he reverts to being mean that quickly this marriage will never work.