As a poor with the audacity to have reproduced, this is a bit tone deaf. Most people don’t have access to the resources you’ve described but can and will have children and raise them into perfectly ok adults who go on to achieve all sorts of cool things, including college degree.

Also staying home due to a disability. My Mom went to DC and is marching for me. I made her a pussy hat :)

9,600 per year in a not-very-good daycare center here in Maryland, and that’s considered cheap. I had to move home with my Mom to be able to afford to send him to daycare and go to school. I stayed home with kiddo all summer because I stopped being able to afford it. Thankfully this year I lucked out and he qualified…

I would love to do something like this in my neighborhood. Right now kiddo and I are both on summer break, but I school-from-home anyway and I’ve got ample time, patience, and chocolate chip waffles. I had PPD with my son and I know how isolating and overwhelming it can be. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of…

He is a sweetie. I have friends who went to high school with him.

I actually did the makeup for a Bollywood remake of 9 dead. There was a dance number.

Thank you for writing this.

I consider myself fortunate that I didn’t end up trafficked in real life and/or drug addicted. Silver lining!

I think that’s a very healthy take to have. I replied to someone else that I would not have entered into a consenting relationship with an adult if I hadn’t already been abused to the point where dating someone 7 year older than me seemed like a good idea. He was kind to me, but I shouldn’t have been there. He didn’t…

A lot of the public commentary about the relationship between David Bowie and Lori Maddox focused on how he victimized her when she recalls a consenting experiencence. The reality is that if girls like Maddox and me would not have been in consenting situations with adults if we weren’t already being abused/vulnerable…

My takeaway from that whole contoversy is that it’s not ok to force victimhood on people who don’t identify as such. For sure David Bowie and others of that era were gross and wrong and should not have fucked underage groupies, but It’s kinda anti-woman to contradict the narrative of the person telling their story…

Honestly, I can’t disagree with him. Trump is dangerous.

If you want softer heels I highly recommend a product called BabyFoot. You put your feet in gel filled booties and wait a while before you wash it off. Over the next week-10 days all of the dry skin on your feet will peel off like a bad sunburn leaving your feet super soft. I do it every year at the bginning of…

The general rule for contouring is to select a shade 2-3 shades darker than your regular foundation and blend it in with your makeup around your temples/forehead/under your cheeks while using a highlighter on your brow bone/cheek bones to bring them forward.

I also like that she featured models from a diverse background of ethnicities and body sizes and encouraged girls to find beauty icons that they can identify with vs trying to live up to one cookie cutter definition of acceptable beauty. Really, it’s a great book. My only criricism is that she didn’t delve much into…

Bobbi Brown makes a cleansing oil that I really like. I’m not a full on OCM devotee like my Mom but I really like it for removing my waterproof liner/mascara combo because I also have leaky eyes.

I’m a huge fan of Bobbi Brown. Her book “teenage beauty” hooked me in 2002 when I was 12 and I recommend it to my friends with daughters who are starting to get into makeup.

I’ve actually given myself a pass on worrying about these things. I have enough anxiety as it is and appeasing other people’s ideals about what Mothers should be is not going to benefit either of us. I’m not wealthy (student) but I live in one of the wealthiest areas in the country so I’m surrounded by upper middle…

I had a CNM for my prenatal care in tandem with high risk specialists because I have a broken uterus. I absolutely love the care I received from my midwife as a scared 21 year old with a high risk pregnancy. She always let me talk a little bit longer and went out of the way to make sure I was taking care of myself…

One of my favorite pornos plays Shania Twain’s “Man I feel like a woman” over a cunnilingus scene. I’m team Kanye on this one.