You could sub gameofjoans for anne hathaway and it’d be accurate I fear.

I am! I 100% don’t get the backlash for photobooths...used to love the ones you’d find at malls and as someone who generally likes to preserve anything and everything in photos and always has, they are a great way to get people in photos at weddings. (and I do like props but not masks like one friend had - I want to…

“douchelords” is perfection and I’m going to steal, but I will give credit. I used to work for someone very similar to what you describe...

Thank you. The person was quite disgusting it turned out, in other ways. Now that I’ve learned from that situation I hope I’ll act differently if put in a spot like that again.

Thank you, you are so thoughtful and completely get the situation.

My old boss straight up told me I “look like you stuck your finger in a light socket” the first time I wore my curls out, not in a bun or straightened. This was early in my job and I just threw it in a bun everyday afterward...for the entire 2 years I worked for that jerk. For added fun, I was living in a place with…

your definition (which I already knew thank a bunch!!) is in relation to scientific evidence. NOT to people sharing stories of their lives, i.e. my “lived experience” remark. Please, go to a support group, go to an author writing a memoir, or I dunno, a message board where people go to learn about others (as you are…

Thank you for this. I was confused by the comments yesterday too, saying she should be judged harshly for dating Penn...that’s just...not right in ways I don’t have time to go through.

You have phrased all of this so well, so perfectly described what I’ve been trying to say for years. Thank you.

see goddessoftransitory’s remarks below. You need to gain some sensitivity on this subject and stop harping about studies. LIVED EXPERIENCES are not anecdotes, BTW.

I know it’s a delicate subject and her wording sounds crass...but i understand sort of where she’s coming from.

No, I don’t think it’s all adoptive parents...and the fact that you sound like you’ve been looking toward adoption for some time coupled with your asking questions about what it would be like for the child indicates you already put more thoughtful consideration into it than many people.

That’s a great point that I wasn’t articulate enough to get into (still am not)— that it’s a prevalent attitude...among most people you meet if adoption comes up...that adopted kids don’t really count as “your own”. I have some stories...and as for being a biracial raised by a white family in the South...still…

My siblings and I are adopted children and 2 friends I grew up with as well...and my first thought was also for the 3 at home...

So glad to see I’m not alone. An acquaintance of mine was going on about it being “Feminist” at a 4th of July party and when my friend said to her how she didn’t get how it was Feminist, the acquaintance treated my friend as though she was dim, all “How could you not get it?” It made me rage-y.

I don’t feel bad for once! I have actually been to Joshua Tree for new Year’s Eve. But I wore a hoodie & jeans like a normal. I got the Aspen vacation as my result and that is the LEAST interesting to me as I HATE snow & I’ve never learned to ski and don’t want to try now.

That is definitely what happened to me. Spent 3 years in Florida and completely got used to the climate. Last Winter I had just moved to DC & it was horrifying. This Winter of course has been mild, but the lack of sunshine in general has really been a bummer, and it’ll rain for 3-4 days straight here, not those quick…

I started watching it w/out knowing anything about it. Sadly, the more I realized she was dealing with PTSD from being a sexual slave basically, the more I realized I cannot watch the show anymore. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, it’s just too much for me. Wish I could deal, but just the pilot made me anxious…

Uniformity can only go so far...they are’s all the same skn color, height and weight, and the judges deal with it. They also need to accept that everyone doesn’t have the same hair texture.