She’s basically saying that white women are celebrated for doing things that black women do. Black women twerking? Disgusting and ghetto. White women twerking? Cute and fun. Black women wearing cornrows? Ghetto. White women wearing cornrows? Chic.

I think corn rows on us reads as ratchet and thuggish and on white women it reads as “edgy” and High fashion. Beauty standards are different and that bleeds into sexuality and how each is treated.

The reason I’m suspicious of the court-appointed advocate is this sentence:

understand that there are several things that is disturbing about this case, but what is most blatant is that the children are not on trial here yet the court has ordered them to speak to the father, a ruling that is unprecedented is disturbing about this case, but what is most blatant is that the children are not on…

Seriously, I don’t care if the kids are actually suffering from brainwashing/parental alienation syndrome or not, the way she spoke to them and treated them was flat-out unacceptable no matter what. She cannot say she was acting in their best interests while simultaneously verbally abusing them and for all intents and…

Absolutely! If there was some sort of reason to suppose the mother to be an unfit parent, hidden away in those files she refers to, then that might justify taking the kids away form their mother, but it would never justify treating the children like THEY are the ones who did something wrong! Her treatment of the…

It’s also really common for kids to (of their own volition!) not like a parent and not feel safe with them. All those kids are old enough to have their own opinions. I can’t tell you how shitty it is to be told by the court that because you are not 18, it is impossible that you would have any independent thought and…

Nothing creates the foundation for a healthy parent child-relationship like coercion: “You will bond with your father or you will learn to live life without your right thumb. Now, hug him. Hug him, damn it!”

While an improvement over a juvenile detention centre, I don't like that these children are being forced to attend camp. The lack of respect that this judge is showing for the personal autonomy of these children is shocking. Another story I read about this included a quote from the judge heaping praise on the father…

I love that she’s doing the whole “you guys don’t understand” thing when literally NOTHING (barring the kids actually, you know, committing a crime and even then it’s debatable) that justifies her sending them to jail and threatening them in the manner that she did (“you want people to watch you pee?”).

This point must be made to every forced-birther who says they want to end abortion. “No, you want to end legal abortion. Women got abortions prior to Roe v Wade, but many of them were dangerous and caused serious injury and/or death. If you make abortion illegal in the US, the number of lives you’ve “saved” by forcing…

They also apparently don't get that abortion didn't start with the Roe v Wade decision. Women have been getting them since they first discovered herbs that would induce them. Even if they managed to make them illegal, women would still get them.

And don’t a good majority of those fertilized eggs get tossed out like yesterday’s jam?

Actually if I left it alone, outside of my uterus, it actually won't turn into much of anything now will it?

But left alone, already-grown humans - that is, left without water and food - will DIE. So what are we supposed to do? Just leave everyone alone?!

“If an embryo is not a person, what is it?”

I mean, I feel you, but cardboard applicators are awful. Like, I end up having to toss like 1/3 of the tampons with non plastic applicators because they always end up getting. . . mushy. . . and then the tampon won’t deploy right. I’ve tried being fast, it just doesn’t work.

Mr. Torgue agrees!

One thing I tell clients about certain mental health diagnoses (this certainly doesn’t apply to everyone or every situation) to balance the no hope/reasonable expectations dilemma:

I was lucky enough, the funeral home we dealt with for my father was overall very good, compassionate and helpful beyond the call of duty. However, the morning of the funeral I got a frantic call from my best friend - a barber- about a customer she was working on. He was apparently the guy who was set to drive the…