Why do these GOP idiots never seem to understand that people who are on SNAP get the same amount in assistance regardless of what food they buy? You are not suddenly getting more funds that month if you buy steak or seafood. I get why booze, soda, and candy are not allowed. But thrifty shoppers can often find a good…

This is a classic right-wing debate tactic: argument by anecdote. In the case of public assistance, the original version of this anecdote was the Cadillac-driving “welfare queen” that Ronald Reagan went on about.

What I’m confused about is that this is a set amount, correct? It’s not like you can spend money in your first three days of the month or whatever and go back for more, correct?

I’m solidly middle class and you bet your ass I raid the clearance meat section. YOLO.

Ha! I came here to say exactly that. This is why we all nod and smile and claim to have boyfriends instead of speaking up and telling the creeps to just leave us the hell alone. Holy christ.

The Queen is so well dressed you might say Wintour is coming....i'll let myself out.

I am having more fun at 67 than I had at 57 or even 47 (37 and 27 were a lot of fun). Yeah, some good things don't happen any more but then some bad things are done with too. And looking in the mirror can be a shock but I remind myself that it's much easier to look good at 27 than 67 and you can only look good for…

I don't think that Plato was the first or only advocate for gender equality. The number of written documents that have survived for more than 2000 years are small and overwhelmingly written by men, so it's not surprising that some of the earliest recorded feminist advocacy would be from men. I would assume lots of…

O, yes. men are the advocates. You think we haven't heard that before?

The comments on this board further prove how white feminists feel about African American women. Gloria attempts to give credit to black women and right on cue white women come out to refute her comments. Look, it is difficult to say, who exactly started the feminist movement. There are also different "waves" of the…

Does Christine de Pizan count? The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405.

That's right. The most common ones that they talked about was these people from more privileged class backgrounds would say, my partner just has this family that's so expressive emotionally and so intimate, and they hang out with each other in a way that's kind of unimaginable in my family and they're just so…

I'm from New Orleans and still live here. Coffee with cream or milk is for breakfast if you're not eating anything else. Coffee comes dark roast and with chicory because we like it. You may not.

For real, get little Tupperware thingies at your supermarket or something. When you're finished cooking your bacon or duck or chicken or whatever, pour the fat into the little cup and bang it in the freezer. You can label it with a sharpie it you want. When you need some fat, take it out and scrape some off the top.

Trust me...DO NOT WISH for hot flashes. They DO not come when you want them too-they DO NOT warm you up...they make you melt, and not in the right places. They are inconvenient, annoying, rash inducing and generally horrific. If I believed in God I would have cursed him from the moment they started. If I could wish…

I'm experiencing perimenopausal symptoms including hot flashes at the very young age of 43 (very nearly 44). I'm told this is likely because I have never had children. My doctor said I could probably expect up to ten years of perimenopause. Everything about perimenopause sucks especially since I'm still having fairly…

Oh please. If someone handed me even $10,000 when I was 21 there was no way I would have managed it correctly. And probably the first thing I would have done would have asked my dad "What would be the smart thing to do with this?" I think that in Hockey and Baseball and to a lesser extent Football we tend to forget…

I know, right? Fellow strong minded Black Woman here. There is no other time period other than this one i'd want to live in. Maybe Harlem during the 20's but that's about it.

My annual routine is to eat everything in the freezer by at least late July or early August. That way if we get that every few year hurricane which knocks the electricity out for a week, I lose very little. Defrosting takes care of itself.

Would not have called the police. Would never consider the baker vendor welcome in ever again. You don't do that to people.