I wear makeup every day (not schlubby at home days, obvs) and I did not previously believe myself to be unusual in that, and yet somehow this whole series has been populated by women who wear almost no makeup on the regular. I feel like I must be a unicorn. But since I had no idea that I was alone in makeup wearing,…
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I loved this whole bit:
"Beyonce!"
I can't be the only one who hears the lyrics as "amazing cunt", right?
Why are all these teachers having sex with teenage boys? They were teenagers once, they know the sex won't be any good anyway!! That and the pedophile thing.
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
Also, according to some media sources, when the Imam told women to step back, hundreds of them went and carried her coffin, and led the funeral prayer themselves.
Being an expat in Lebanon has its challenges, especially when you're pale, blonde and built like a boy. Bras rarely…
Once you beat someone senseless with DUMBELLS IN FRONT OF YOUR CHILDREN you should have no rights to those children or any of their family members ever.
There's a bookstore near me that stays open as late as the eccentric owner feels like staying, so I actually have gone in and browsed tipsy at one am. It's awesome and has a shop cat.
When I was in high school, I had a best friend named Christine. One time, we went to the beach and on the way back we stopped at our favorite coffee shop to see our friends that hung out there. I had to get home by a certain time and she had driven, but she didn't want to leave so I had to call my Mom to pick me up.…
Sometimes I feel like lies don't count as lies when the truth is nobody's business anyway.
where in the text of any personal essay does a reader ever read I AM A PERFECT PERSON; MY LIFE STORY IS UNEQUIVOCALLY THE RIGHT THING FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO DO
"I'm going to destroy everything," Seamus hissed at me as I climbed into my friend's car to leave the home we…
This. There's a certain strain of "feminism" that feels totally comfortable with awful sexist shit befalling women who have problematic views (See; treatment of Sarah Palin and her daughter. Is SP the literal worst in terms of terrible backwards policies and saying oppressive shit? Sure but I still don't think any…
I would like to take this moment to say: what this delivery driver did was unprofessional and uncool and so shitty.
They emphasize this statistic because it is in contrast to the usual statistics regarding women and gun violence. Whereas 15% of total gun homicide victims in the U.S. were female, 51% of the victims of mass shootings were female. "In at least 63 of the cases (57%), the shooter killed a current or former spouse or…
Boomers caused both bubbles. They are the ones controlling the money supply and the interest rates and they are the ones that decided that investments should be made into various industries. And they are the ones that will soon retire and have the power to suck this country dry.