I live in a midsize city, and have bought 80% of my clothes from thrift stores my entire life. I look perfectly presentable. I'm not sure how much thrifting you've actually done, or if you just happen to live in an awful area, but it is perfectly possible to not look like "someone's crazy aunt" while wearing used…

There are thousands of thrift shops that aren't Goodwill or Salvation Army. And I'm mostly not trying to do anyone else a favor by shopping there (although it does alleviate some guilt about putting money towards exploitative companies), I'm doing myself a favor by not shelling out three hours of wages for a pair of…

You know, I'm tempering my skepticism a tiny bit because I've used a coffee-ground face mask that definitely made my face less puffy. It also gave me even more of a caffeine buzz than drinking the coffee did.

Nope, not ok. Goodbye.

Dude, just because someone has a PhD in math doesn't mean they should be expected to write papers on Faulkner. There is no "doctorate level" of reading.

YA literature is literature aimed at older kids/teenagers, not literature that features them. A Room with a View and David Copperfield are by no definition YA lit, just like Room isn't a children's book just because the protagonist is a child. Most YA does limit itself in the topics it can cover and the depth and…

Ooh, I've been meaning to read Half-Broke Horses since I saw an Amish mother reading it at the train station. Partly because I loved The Glass Castle, and partly because I want to know what the Amish read.

You might want to admit at this point that you don't actually know that much about what is and is not dangerous for newborns, if you don't think it's appropriate to treat a newborn and a five-month-old differently.

Oh, of course—I mean technically. There are many fewer problems to encounter when you're using a bottle, and there's a much shorter learning curve.

I mean, it is significantly easier to bottlefeed than to breastfeed. What were you hoping to learn from a lactation consultant about bottlefeeding?

Eek! If you're losing that much blood, you're probably at risk of anemia. Iron supplements will treat that.

Google says heavy blood loss during menstruation is 60-80 mL. The size 1 Diva Cup is about 20 mL, and size 2 is about 25 mL. So if you're filling it more than 3 times, I would definitely see a gyn—and take some iron supplements! Hope everything's ok!

The cross is a much better comparison than the hijab. A hijab is more than an "expression" of religion; most hijabis feel that to not wear hijab would be unacceptably immodest, for themselves at least. And there is an explicit rule here that he is breaking, unfair or not. I'm sure he would be free to wear the feather…

What? I didn't say anything about the feather. And I'm not assuming anything, that's my point. I just don't think it's impossible that the half-Native student body embraces the school's mascot and team name. As cartoons go, this one is pretty inoffensive—it seems like a stretch to call it a caricature.Would it be…

The article indicates that half of the student population is Native. I fully admit that it is possible that these students feel mocked by the mascot. (Although, strictly speaking, would that actually be cultural appropriation? It seems more like a straight-up offensive caricature.) However, I think it is also a…

It's not actually appropriation if the mascot represents a school that is majority Native, and that population apparently doesn't a problem with it.

I think the car was named after the daughter of the man it was designed for. It's a traditional Spanish name.

I went to school with a Ronisha, named after her dad.

There isn't any reason to think any of these students are "succeeding at it." My impression was that this is just a page for all the parenting and pregnant students. I keep seeing this narrative of amazing, wonderful teen parents that is apparently supposed to counter the shaming that parenting teens (in some…

I mean, all curly hair is dry, but there's probably a greater proportion of curly-haired white people than curly-haired East Asians. But apparently they said precisely what they meant. *shrugs*