hand held mirrors helped me through that phase :) That, using an electric razor with a clipper guard and not caring if it was even or looked good, I just wanted it short!

You shouldn’t quit carbs anyway - at least not the whole grain unrefined/unprocessed variety. They’re *good* for you (yes, even, gasp, gluten containing carbs). They’re an essential source of all kinds of energy, lovely minerals and vitamins and fibre that your body needs. Fat is also good for you. It’s not carbs and…

Pfft, whatever, at least someone left something in trade. You want serious garden violation*?? Several years ago someone stole one of my basil plants and a handful of garlic from my community garden. Fuckers. When I wanted to post a sign to remind grazers to please take food from the open community plot, and not the…

I thought of this exactly when I saw something posted this past weekend about Hilary Duff’s “cellulite” photo from a day at the beach with her kid (which was really just an untouched, or an unflatteringly retouched “IRL” photo - which wasn’t even unflattering, it just made her look human instead of smoothly plastic).…

It’s really offputting! And these kinds of revelations always make me think of pictures of Christie Brinkley in the 80s, posing in bikinis with folds in her waist/stomach on full display - she was hot for pete’s sake!

Wow, so the “normals” really have no chance whatsoever... And no wonder plastic surgery IRL looks so weird!!

Especially when you consider that it’s 30% of a proportion of the population. It sounds like he thinks he got 30% of the Cuban-American vote, which maybe he did, but that’s (thank you wikipedia) 3.5% of the overall Hispanic population, or half a percent of the general US population.

lol... yes I learned on my first trip in Brisbane years ago to always check my shoes.

Well sure, but Australian wildlife is legit terrifying - and I say that as someone who has had both bear and coyote encounters. But the most uncomfortable I have ever felt in my life in nature was on a 2 hour hike in the Blue Mountains with my husband, *convinced* that one of your damned spiders was going to get me...

Well sure, but can you name the last time you used that word to describe a man’s overwrought emotional response...?

Not really, and I’m really not trying to be smug about this - I do try to think critically about the accumulation of useless crap in my life, but I’m also not arguing that I don’t fall into those traps on occasion, I just take issue with the notion that these kinds of choices are made in a vaccuum free of external…

People give it that “damned misogynistic connotation” because the root of the word is “hystera”, the ancient Greek for uterus.

Honestly it’s an experience people have been conditioned to “want” - if you can’t think outside the wedding industrial complex box a teeeny tiny bit... then you’ve kinda been gamed. Not that most people deserve to be taken for a ride, but if you don’t participate in the nonsense in the first place you’re less likely…

Isn’t purchasing a dress made in China from a bridal chain store the definition of “buying off the rack”...?

If Sandy Hook could be derailed and couldn’t sustain momentum for real systemic change, this case sure isn’t going anywhere :(

I work for the feds in Canada and all of our salaries (even Executives) are standardized by classification and level, anybody could look up my salary range online (just not the specifics of what exact level within that range I’m currently at). While there are definitely still gender disparities in terms of job types…

Most nursery sets (furniture) I’ve seen are various shades of stained wood or white, grey and black, she shouldn’t have issues there - and then just paint/decorate in whatever colours you like! Embrace the rainbow! My daughter’s room is yellow, my friends’ painted their daughters’ rooms orange (sounds awful but looks…

And because they’re idiots who were unable to pass a 6th grade biology class...

Sure, but unfortunately for that baby, the kinds of people that throw “gender reveal” parties (first: YOU’RE REVEALING THE *SEX*, NOT THE FUCKING GENDER YOU FUCKING MORONS), are the kinds of people that are going to try and hardwire cis-heteronormative sex/gender bullshit into their kids anyway... :/

My silver and black thug cat, who looked a lot like mummy cat above, was killed Saturday night... Your boos are adorable but I don’t think I’ll be ready for another for a long time - my guy was my first cat (I have a dog as well and my childhood pets were dogs), and he was seriously one in a million, so affectionate…