You got it. Do no harm.

I hear what you’re saying.

Shrink/less noticeable, same diff. I recommend the Clarisonic. Acids are fine but won’t rout out the channel and allow the pores to diminish. I’m just suggesting things from the perspective of a skin care person.

There was a whole decade of Crackbaby focus. My hometown was a particular target. Just look it up; it was an era and you are old enough to know. Poor, addicted mothers were demonized for many years, and you can find tons of discussion about it at will.

Of course there are effects, but it was used as a blanket way to demonize poor mothers. It never ruined the children like the narrative said. Never did we hear about suburban moms with opiate or Xanax issues. Never. Suddenly we got all worried about poor black women.

Are you using the Clarisonic? Pores do shrink when they’re kept super clean. Then I’d add vitamin C and hyaluronic acid. THEN use a primer like Pore-fessional if you’re going out.

Yup. She’s ridiculous-pretty, to the point that make up just fucks it up.

Ah, Stassi is morphing into Amy from Amy’s Baking Company!!! Same plastic surgeon (I’ll take the Bitchy White Woman, doctor), same desperate rage and shrieking defensiveness. And then the victimhood to deflect all accountability. I love it.

Yes, but then I watched six episodes of Rob and Chyna last night (for research) and I think a lot of it is natural. Her mother looks ridiculously good and her father has amazing skin and features that translate really well to a daughter, and they are both extremely pretty. Some of her half siblings look kinda…

She’s been super open about the fact that she just despises herself. It makes me cry.

“Thus the irony of a blog like Jezebel..”

“Sorry to be so open...”

Damn right. Your kids have super-immunity at this point. My mother never gave a shit—I once ate a french fry off a cobblestone street during a trip to Paris when I was eight, and my mom just asked how it tasted.  

The important thing is that you haven’t done anything with him outside of work yet, right? So you have that going for you. I think blowing him off with something that clarifies his rank in your life would be best: say pleasantly that you’ve decided to spend Christmas Eve hanging at home. And make sure he brings it…

You don’t really need to go to school 8 hours a day for an entire year in order to learn how to be a stylist. It’s kind of a notorious example of overkill that ends up being prohibitive for a lot of low income women. Cops probably should, although they’d surely cry about it being way too onerous.

Choke: The Doug Heimlich Story

Thank you. I do appreciate that.

I do think Tilda was guilty of trying to confirm her own perspective by ostensibly asking for input from an Asian person but not really wanting to interrogate herself or absorb new ideas. It’s not intentionally dismissive, but it is dismissive and kinda willfully helpless in that way that removes responsibility, as…

You intuitively did what clinicians do to help kids “outgrow” their allergies. Kinda like exposure therapy for a phobia—gradual introduction of the offending trigger at small doses until tolerance increases.

I just want it on the record that I love you for the phrase, “the matter of library cats.”