This woman reminds me of St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre.

Totally agree. I cannot begin to count the number of times just saying the word “feminist” has cause nostrils to flare in my direction, and I’m pretty much a total noob. It’s still pretty freaking incendiary—else how do you explain Trump’s election?!

THIS. I live in Houston. The place is quite purple if anything, yet someone today just asked me how I “cope” being one of the “lone liberals” in the state. I had to assure them there were plenty of progressives here too—it feels like there’s this massive misconception that TX is just red through and through, when…

“Giving you time off to hang with your friends” sounds like code for “sex night.”

Yeah, free and reduced school lunches are a very important program. Didn’t exist for us at the time.

Second grade. Opened my lunchbox midyear to find half a bologna sandwich, a gherkin pickle, and an empty cup to get water from the fountain. I was like, “Huh. We’re POOR.” Then I shrugged and hightailed it to the playground.

It sounds like these parents have failed a lot of girls as well.

lmao with this question

A historical understanding of fairy tales and what we think of as “children’s” literature reveals that the vast majority of them were always meant to be very adult tales, often told by bawdy raconteurs around village campfires. Most of them have to do with basic survival, and there are distinct subcategories. Beauty…

So this is purely anecdotal and I don’t want to set off any firebombs, but in just my personal experience, latino and black men seem to disproportionately HATE condoms and actively try to avoid using them. I’ve had a few girlfriends share similar observations. Is there some kind of stigma attached to them, and would…

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So, schmaltz addicts?

Some people rely on the emotional equivalent of Metamucil from shows like this in order to uncork the feelz. #psychicconstipation

Don’t worry, it’s obvious to us too. He looks awkward as hell and we like him the better for it.

White people assholes get radicalized very easily because when you’re spoiled and never face any real adversity, the smallest slights feel world-changing.

the alignment is so weird. it looks like they just got engaged and are trying to show off the ring.

we yanks would sooooooooo take “perturbed” right now.

Thought the exact same thing. So much ick.

If you can survive this, you can survive anything.

Omg—are you from Pinellas County, FL? Because I also prosecuted in that program. 1) Most juvenile offenders don’t realize their peers will judge them MORE harshly than adults. 2) The one time I defended, I witnessed the most overtly racist court proceedings against the young black accomplice I was defending, starkly…