This also tells us a lot about how we perceive moms. Even though he apparently had a debilitating and deadly mental illness, she still must be at fault. Don't you know there's only perfect mothers, and the rest are bad?

YES. When has anyone on this thread ever read an article in a mainstream news outlet that profiled a murderer who was a person of color, asking WHY WHY HOW HOW he could have done such a thing? No one, because no one writes that, because we believe white people are better than violence and people of color - especially…

Right? Where are all the female friends from season 1? Why doesn't Mindy ever have a conversation with someone who isn't a man or who doesn't prop up some ugly stereotype (ignorant/sassy Black woman, idiot Christian virgin, old maid)?

I don't know this child (I suspect you don't either, but correct me if I'm wrong), so I can only speak to my extensive experience working with hundreds of kids as a teacher. The girl slapped the woman first and if the bullying allegation is true, it's obvious that violence is her language and the currency in her life.…

And with all the "progress" towards data and test scores, any emotional literacy education that might have existed (never in my district, but maybe in others) is out the window. The emotional well-being of children MATTERS to everyone in a school, but it isn't always top priority when your job and your children's…

Right??? I was thinking about whose job dealing with bullying is, and it took me a while to get to counselor or principal and the truth is, it's no one's job. That is SO fucked up, especially working in a school with 100% of kids were suffering from some combination of sexual/emotion/physical abuse and Katrina-induced…

My dermatologist told me there's no cure for it. The most you can do is seriously lotion up :|. This was very bad news for me. However, I've started using lotion that's almost like glue and it's really helped with the color, though the bumps are still there. I'll be following to see if anyone has better advice.

Are you kidding? I said I don't hit kids who bully. As a teacher, I don't physically discipline children because I think it's a terrible emotional reaction to model as acceptable for kids. If I see it, I step in - just not with a smack.

This happened once at the school where I taught. I understand the feeling - I have wanted to smack kids bullying my students who aren't even my kids - but at the end of the day, it's hard to watch an adult model these behaviors to kids. Of course, this woman clearly reacts to violence with violence because she had no…

You will like StrengthsFinder! I prefer it to Myers-Briggs because it's more complex and focused on your strengths and skillsets. You'll love it! WORTH THE MONEY.

It's like my friends and I say after a wild weekend, "I was GILE! Gettin it like Eleanor!"

Yes - honestly, she's like a friend who keeps going back to the bullshit ex. It's like, I love you baby but it's hard for me to respect you when all I see is you running to this man that treats you shitty.

HA I think her creepiness adds to the chemistry!

I actually think David Rosen and Abby have the best chemistry of anyone on the show. I love watching them.

David Rosen and Abby have the BEST chemistry!!!!!!!

I know right! The thing is, he used condoms - he just didn't like it if a girl asked for them. That's all I can tell you because we discussed it for so long I felt like my brain was going to turn inside out...it was "just something" for him!

I had a (short-lived) friendship with a guy in college who told me he wouldn't continue a relationship with a girl if she initiated sex with, "Do you have a condom?" This was totally flabbergasting to me - also a fave initiating line. He claimed it was because it made him think that, even if he KNEW she wasn't, she…

I think you misunderstood my first comment. I'm not talking about who works on it or how. I'm talking about how the general public characterizes health issues. These characterizations have enormous implications for what money gets to the issues.

I'm talking about media and public health civilians in general. When you work in a field that serves the public, you get a different perspective. When you read the way obesity is characterized in non-public health publications, you see a lot of onus put on individual choice rather than systems. I'm surprised you…

Yes. There is a huge component here of corporate responsibility that is never spoken about. I was talking about government systems, but you're absolutely right that enormous food corporations are rarely blamed for exploiting people's ignorance about nutrition thought it's essentially written into their marketing…