Money grab is a hard accusation to fling at someone who’s just lost her spouse. Also, consider this: when someone dies as the result of an auto (or other type) of accident, insurance companies often file suit on behalf of the victim. When I was a kid, a teenage boy was on a church trip which involved a hayride and was…

Everything I’ve read makes it look and sound like Venus should not have been found at fault. She was hit by the other driver as she was attempting to clear the intersection from the previous light cycle. No one (from what I have seen) has disputed that she entered the intersection while she had a green light, and that…

Lawsuit sounds like a money grab. Report I saw was Venus got stuck in an intersection and then the light turned red, Barson proceeded to blow through the intersection and T-bone her.

Thanks.

Just curious: Are you a woman? Or have you traveled with a nursing mother before?

Considering you ignored your own first two points (which I was describing as outdated and inaccurate respectively, although your description of penance payment was laughably wrong as well but I at least knew what you were talking about) and instead jumped straight to defending your third point about…

The potential alcoholism aside (and that IS a major concern), it also feels like “Love of Wine” has sort of almost... come to be a stand-in for an actual personality. No need to actually be funny or engaging or interesting or whatever... just drink wine!

There is a very creepy trend going on of making alcoholism seem adorable (if you’re a rich and white “free spirit”, I think is the subtext?). T-shirts that say “Rose all day!” and mugs that say “There’s a chance this is wine!” etc. I’m not normally a prude exactly but I have friends with drinking problems too and this…

YEP! It’s fucking terrible. I hate everything about it. I hate that there’s so little support for women that they feel they need to resort to this. There’s so little help out there and so much judgement. And when you resort to this as your method of relaxation, the world acts like it’s fine and it’s honestly not that…

This narrative of “hahahaha, having kids is so exhausting and awful mommy has resorted to drinking! No biggie!” is flat-out gross. Yes, having kids is exhausting and sometimes awful but let’s not normalize heavy drinking as a coping mechanism.

Yup. That was me. High powered lawyer by day, drowning in white wine by night (I always spilled red and it stained, so white it was). I didn’t get sober until I was 4 fucking 1.

You already do what? Drink alone at home or every night as a way of relieving stress? I’m not being judgmental (been there, done that) but even if you are not addicted, you probably know it can get out of hand. Alcohol doesn’t work well longterm as anti-anxiety or anti-depression medication, which is what a lot of…

THIS. The Wine industry fucking disgusts me. For years whenever I travel I see post cards that say “if only there was wine,” t-shirts at stores say shit like “the only thing getting me through the day is wine,” and its you can see it in TV, Movies, etc as if being an alcoholic is acceptable because life is hard.

Can’t tell you how much I hate the wink-wink “mom’s juice” promotion of wine drinking! I know too many women (“moms” and non-moms) who have developed alcohol problems in middle age. I don’t care how successful you are or if you have kids, if you are daytime drinking in your living room or drinking daily at night to…

So let’s say someone is throwing a, I dunno, Stranger Things wedding. That means that if their grandmother, great-uncle who has a walker, favorite cousin, etc. don’t feel like dressing up like Eleven, they should just RSVP no? People can do whatever they want, but that makes it seem less like “we’re having a wedding…

I mean, “just don’t go to the wedding” is not always such a simple option. What if it’s a cousin? What if it is your boss? Your good friend? Your husband’s best friend? Now you have to balance their lack of being reasonable with the repercussions in your life.

OK, new rule: any sitting government official who answers ‘I can’t recall’ to any question about critical meetings they had under 6 months ago they had should be removed from office, because they are either a liar or have mental issues that disqualify them.

Seriously! White dude who rapes a woman with witnesses gets 3 months and probation and this guy who alledgely stole a cell phone and was identified by his skin tone gets 19 years?!

Okay but can we also talk about him getting a mandatory sentence of 19 years for stealing a cell phone? Like in what world is that a proportional punishment?

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