Dandelion root is a good mild laxative, dandelion leaves are really good for your liver (they’re mildly diuretic), and the flower is a mild appetite stimulant (perhaps some dandelion tea for someone on chemo who doesn’t really want to eat).

WOOOH! I’m voting for Walker! (does shot) WOOH! Now I'm voting for Baldwin, cus fuckit!

I tend to agree with these semi-regular “don’t use overtly feminine qualifiers in business” articles when they are published, but damn if my experience hasn’t been:

Maybe men should be using “just” and “sorry” more rather than women using them less? This seems like a very patriarchal way of thinking—it seems to be presuming that the way men commonly speak is the “correct” way and the way that gets them “power”, and that the language more common for women is “flawed” and results…

YES! The article — and others about how women talk — presume that there is some societal norm about how humankind is to talk (especially in a professional setting) and that the norm is, of course, how men talk. We are continually told how to conform to what men do, how men act, because this is how we are supposed to…

Ugh, it’s not that people don’t judge you on your vocal/written way of expressing yourself, but I am so sick of women being told to do this/that/the other while I spend HOURS talking to men who Uhhhh between every other word, or mutter under their breath, or have decided the yep/nope cowboy persona is mysterious and…

I’m guilty of abusing “just.” All the time. Every email. Sometimes, I have to go back through and edit emails and take out a bunch of “justs” so that there are only 2 or 3 left. I’m conscious of it, and I hate it, but it’s totally ingrained. I feel like a total raging bitch if I don’t use it.

Okay. This is a knee-jerk reaction, but—stop telling me what to do! Will this get me promoted or more money? Probably not. Playing the game frequently gets you farther than sounding like the adult in the room. Somehow, I feel made wrong by this. I stopped reading a certain woman’s magazine when I was 22 because it…

Hey, here’s a crazy idea: how about we stop fucking policing women’s language? Where are all the articles about all the words men use more than women (ETA: not directed at Tracy!)? Oh, there aren’t any because anything the majority of men say is automatically accepted as the standard.

I just had a meeting with my boss and my boss’s boss telling me to use qualifiers so I sound less abrasive. Seriously. “Maybe, instead of telling the other team your ideas you can phrase it more as a suggestion?” We’ll never get over this until the men children I work with are told to deal with women working as their…

I’m tired of people telling me what words I can and can’t use at work. I’ve recently made a conscious effort to stop saying “sorry” for innocuous stuff, and people have commented that I come across as “terse” or “cold.” But if I say “sorry” for the innocuous stuff, then people would think I’m weak. So what the hell am…

Other Random Women Who Call Themselves Experts and tell other women how to talk, act, dress. I don’t want a man to tell me what to do and I don’t want another woman to either. So fuck off mother fucker. JUST stop with the micromanagement of words and thoughts. Just stop. Fucking assholes. Police your own damn selves.…

I stand corrected.

i legitimately don’t understand what’s happening

So Gawker Media slams People for being ecstatic over their exclusive and then when the announcement happens you prey on every minute detail of the split? Silly.

The first time that JLo pulls onto the Affleck/Garner estate for a bootycall with Ben would definitely the last time. I can’t see Jennifer Garner standing for that shit.

My 13 year old was just telling me about this last night. I admit when he told me it was a Mexican demon named Charlie I was thinking, “Ummmmm...” Then I tried to get him hooked on The Haunting of Sunshine Girl instead. And now Scary for Kids. Thank Mark!

Wouldn’t you say that it’s not that she doesn’t care about looking nice (which she clearly does, and would never be in this utterly juvenile “hot” list is she genuinely didn’t care), but more that they are picking up on the vibe that she isn’t looking nice for THEM. She doesn’t care what they think, whether they deem…

That male gaze double standard makes me want to chew my own fingers off in frustration. Of course she cares about how she looks. I love Taylor Swift but you’d have to be an idiot to not see how carefully she chooses what she wears or how she looks even if she’s just skipping out to the Duane Reade. Saying she’s hot…