Thanks for your perspective and I’m glad you ultimately enjoyed your day! Happy to say that our wedding day also turned out beautiful and even surpassed my expectations. I basically took the advice offered and let the moms have what they wanted after realizing it really wouldn’t negatively affect anything. And…

Amen sister.

It’s not even comparing us to animals, the fetus is the animal in this horrifically cruel metaphor, we’re not the fauna or even the flora, we’re the dirt.

Around the same time, I saw FB pics a friend was tagged in from a party where a guy had his fully visible penis against the face of a girl who was clearly passed out in her chair. I remember staring for what felt like forever because I couldn’t believe what I was actually looking at some guy’s dick, and then realizing…

“I feel unjustifiably entitled to know more about the dissolution of a marriage that had a full Vogue spread and detailed their wedding’s historical walking tour of the Tulsa Race Massacre. (Yes, you read that right.)“

My fiance (then-boyfriend) bought me my first ever vibrator that is actually ‘just’ a vibrator. I had all manner of drug-store vibrating toothbrushes and Target neck massagers beforehand.

The smell experience was so strange, suddenly hitting me in the exact way as when I’d hug her. Even though I hadn’t experienced that aroma since her death, I knew so it immediately that it truly was like a weird cosmic hug. If it’d been anything else that kept me in my spot I’d never have assumed anything supernatural…

I think this is my first story! And it’s not scary, so much as sweet. And if anyone I know reads this thread, hi, it’s definitely me.

Yup. And Yamiche Alcindor is an excellent journalist who highlights her expert skill here of schooling this idiot with a meaningless job title while obviously having to walk a tightrope as a woman of color. Nevermind unlike this dolt, she has an actual, meaningful, respectable and experienced platform from which to…

Using “little girl” as an insult is really incongruous with the incorrect point you are trying to make.

I mean, saying “I don’t get it” implies a value judgement, by stating there is something to “get” rather than just saying her music isn’t your thing. A lot of people seem to forget it’s entirely possible to state your own preferences without even mentioning, much less denigrating opposing preferences. An example…

I don’t think Monica taking back control of the narrative of HER LIFE in which she was taken advantage of by both the most powerful person in the world and her friend, in a tongue and cheek manner via Twitter bio precludes her from wanting to eliminate an offensive and objectively incorrect lyric from pop culture.

Just wanted to send a belated thanks for being the one of the only non-piling on comment in this thread and for understanding not everyone is in a position to just tell their family to fuck off.

My parents stayed together and I’m mostly glad they did. I say mostly because my dad got a LOT of therapy and we now have a great relationship but my mom did not, should have, and while she thinks we have a great relationship, I have several invisible boundaries because of her lack of introspection and constant blame…

Appropriately for his district, he looks like a Carl Hiaasen villain with the brains to match.

I haven’t even read this fully yet and I just want to say thank you as a bride planning a wedding that my mom and MIL are doing their damndest to take over, and feeling like my normally well controlled anxiety and depression are just taking over.

Sorry, millenial internet speak for agreement, as in, I’d sit at your lunch table.

Also shouting “Vote!” at people who have been relegated to a lower class of citizen than they were last week, without those people having done literally anything.

I want to sit with you.  

I feel the same (that is enraged) about the White House equivocation: “While this proposal is well-intentioned, it could put women and providers at risk.”