Lighter skin as beautiful was evident in Japanese art centuries before contact with Europeans. There is an ancient precedent for this trait internal to the culture. It isn't always about us (meaning me, a European) at all.

Seriously white people, it's not always about you.

Please stop with the assumption that Asian plastic surgery ideals are in any way shaped by European ideals. Many East Asians naturally have a double eyelid. The ideal of light skin is a classist issue — those who had darker skin tended to be poor laborers who were forced to work outside. Whether or not these SHOULD be…

I'm a L&D nurse and I get what this author is saying. Everyone has a different life story, personality, pain tolerance, body, understanding of birth, etc. When someone goes spouting off strong opinions on what other women should do, in this complicated field, they do sound pretty ignorant.

Long story short, I ended up with an emergency c section. I posted that scene and on FB and told everyone it was my #birthstory.

Actually, there appears to be a very early shift towards viewing abortion and Fetucide as more serious a crime Christianity than in Judaism. The Greek Septuagint (which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible which is the translation used by Christians both in the 1st century CE and today) interpreted the fine…

I always win this competition for who ate the worst thing as a child:

I don't really see why the focus has to be on women here; just non-violent offenders in general.

True story: my son was 2 1/2 when my daughter was born and he told me he didn't understand how she was eating by just sucking on me. So I squirted him with my breast milk thinking that was the easiest way to show him and that he'd never remember.

Is it me though or does it kind of seem like the new tattoo is saying that the Japanese characters translate to "I'm sorry".

Honest question: Can one admire certain characteristics of antebellum America without directly or tacitly condoning the atrocity of slavery?

Sorry, but I already have enough problems feelings eternally obligated to serve my mom. I absolutely do not want to live in a society in which I can never get to leave the the maternal home and my partner has to sneak in at night. Any way i can have the gender equality without the stifling family obligations?

Oh, I can top that. The guy who tried to talk me out of my virginity told me I couldn't get pregnant because he was sterile. I asked him if it was genetic and he said yes. He didn't understand why I started laughing hysterically.

I kinda think it's harder to develop a BS detector when there's so much information (both good and bad) at your fingertips aallllll the time. I am not looking forward to when my current toddler is old enough to have to write research papers for school.

I can't speak for any of the men who've been acquitted for this reason, but sexsomnia is real, a serious matter. Please don't put it in qoutes like that as if it's some bullshit non-condition.

I... kind of enjoy this song. I'll go sit in the corner now.

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

I've got mixed-race kids. When you can raise them in a diverse place where they go to school and the class looks like the United Nations, it's wonderful. My eldest spent the first three years of his school life in London. He went to a school where at least 30 languages were spoken. His best friend was Bulgarian. His…

China != Taiwan. Well, unless you ask the Chinese.

I don't care what Kim K has to say either but I actually like that the difficulty of combining paid work with responsibility for children is a matter of public discussion. I think it is leading to more general recognition of this problem, which I hope will eventually lead to some improvements. Our workplaces are…