My two cents: being a 30 something woman with a career, money and no kids in the Mexican-American community is very hard. Most women my age have kids, some of them have teenagers, one has grandchildren. They can’t stop themselves from telling me that I’ll probably won’t be able to get pregnant and if I do my body…

I would happily take Baroness.

Read this as

So, it’s essentially an extremely dedicated cosplay?

At least she isn’t allowed to vote.

The Onion’s “Our Dumb Century” hit this perfectly with their story on Williams’ resignation: “Miss America Paegeant Tarnished By Sexual Objectification.” (or something like that.)

Nipples aren’t a big deal at all. We all have em.

Catholics seeking an annulment are almost always already legally divorced. A legal annulment and a Catholic annulment are very different things.

Okay, I’ll bite. Am I really the only one who at least tries to get the guy to let me chip in for half? Sometimes the guy on the date stubbornly won’t let me, in which case I’ll usually concede (because I don’t want to get into a huge argument about it) and pay for the second date (if there is one) or, if we’re going…

I knew people who tried heroin in the nineties. Some people tried it once. Some people fell down a hole into complete self destruction and have never really recovered.

Please don't continue using heroin, no matter what the lives of other users may look like. It will ruin you and destroy your family and everything you care about, if you survive at all. Good people don't encourage others to use heroin. Please stop using now, before it gets worse.

“Tell Judge Bunning he’s a butt.”

I loved AG books. I was fortunate enough to have one doll - Felicity - but I read all of the books for all the characters. Historical fiction was my jam. Does anyone else remember the Girls of Many Lands line of dolls they did? I remember liking those a lot too.

Starring because your husband bought you an American Girl doll and that’s awesome.

Good Christ there’s more.

Off in the corner being shamed by the Bitchin’ Betty Barbie.

Where is the Sally Draper American Girl doll

And what happens when roles calling for non-sexualized characters of color DO crop up?

P.S. I am rewatching Buffy and, once again, it’s very good.

God, Aeon Flux...how the hell did they fuck that movie up so badly? I mean, to have really done the cartoons justice you would've needed...I dunno, Darren Aronofsky or someone on board, but they surely had to try REALLY hard to process that much raw, beautiful insanity into something so fucking anodyne.