I feel so vindicated right now:

Attraction doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Once upon a time, not so long ago, it was the societal norm to be more into fat women than thin women. The class/body shape flip happened, and now we think the opposite. There’s no way attraction isn’t shaped by its cultural context. That is worth thinking about.

I think it’s because there are social and political issues around marginalization and stigma that deserved to be worked through. Like if someone said they “don’t date black people”—there’s a meaningful difference between that statement and “I don’t date men with facial hair”.

Oh, and if you’re under the age of 30/31, most countries have “work-holiday” visas that are very easy to get. You get those, go to the country of interest, and then work to get jobs.

If you’re doing work that’s not considered ‘skilled’ (i.e., my teaching yoga isn’t considered ‘skilled’ and it includes things like…

The first one was in law/NGO work; the second one was in yoga/movement (they were looking for a manager/teacher for 1 yr). Now, I mostly travel and teach (consulting/short-term).

My husband is going to NZ for a bunch of job interviews in August, he does marketing and technical writing, and he has jobs that run a wild…

I still have a CA driver’s license even though I haven’t lived there for seven years. So I guess I don’t live in Alabama! I’ll have to tell my parents I technically still live with them, they’ll love that.

Well, I’m an Air Force brat who has moved 25 times in 27 years. So the average length of time I’ve spent living anywhere is about 13 months - three months is not an insignificant amount of time in light of that. How about we let people decide how to define their own lives?

I love it too, it’s cool seeing different places and a lot of the times I get ideas about places I want to go from other people’s pictures. And honestly I might kind of be like “another picture of that beach view Brenda?!” but not in a malicious way, more like a “Man that girl really needed a vacation!” way. Like…

By your standards I get to talk.

I think you mean “when you’ve driven your kid to suicide”. He is not the same as a parent who lost a child to illness or accident.

You’re so right, the abusive parents are the real victims. The dead girl, whatever.

I wrote a response to this.

Actually you are being the troll or you are really your screen name. Unless you are sitting on prime real-estate where the location is more important than the house, a house older than 30 years old is far from being a tear-down. Though the appliances and carpeting may need replacement, most of these homes have other…

It must hurt to be so wrong about this.

My ovaries hurt. My bear ovaries.

In response to Thune, I’ve never tried his ramen recipe (sounds revolutionary) but I did once make a sandwich with a tortilla instead of bread and beans and cheese instead of lunchmeat. I call it the tortill-wich and I think it’s gonna be HUGE.

1. reverse racism is not a thing, both in a semantic sense and a JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, HAVING ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR IS NOT RACIST, YOU IDIOTS sense
   

This is absolutely true which is what I said in the post.

Don’t interfere with child custody or we’ll lock your pregnant ass in jail!

Meeks said one “narrative” from the approximately 30-second video is that his deputy struck a pregnant woman. But another narrative, he said, is that Robinson was reaching for his weapon.