There are so many things in this story to get upset about. I just want to point out one thing that hasn’t been brought up. This woman comes from a different culture that I think (after growing up in both the US and Germany) has quite different ideas about race. Through that lens, I think this is less of an affront,…

Agreed! My parents were 32 and 38 when they had me and 37 and 43 when they had my brother. They said it was really tiring when we were little but both agree that we have actually kept them younger. Their neighbors are the same age but had kids in their early twenties and my parents always joke about how much older…

I intentionally waited until my mid-30s to get married and have a kid. I spent my 20s being poor, doing awesome internships, dating, living abroad, and taking jobs that were incompatible with having a family. Plus I got to see a lot of relationships implode so I could see the red flags long before I got emotionally…

This is the first time I’ve realized that Eric and Donald Jr. are two people. I always thought people referred to Eric sarcastically as Donald Jr.

Counterpoint: “When a man loves a woman” is absolutely a love song.

BUT SHE WANTED CHILDREN TO EAT BETTER AND GET MORE EXERCISE! What kind of monster wants THAT?

Can we all agree that Melania is no captive victim here? She may despise her disgusting beast of a husband, but she’s in on the insanity all the same.  

What’s even more bizarre about this is that Fredrick Douglass is one of like, 6 black people who you learn about in public school (along with Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, MLK, Chrispus Attucks and Dred Scott). Most 8th graders could probably tell you that Douglass isn’t exactly a contemporary figure.

Frederick Douglass died in 1895.

Once Trump reaches Bush’s death toll for 9-11 and Iraq (which I truly fear he might out of sheer incompetence) than I’ll gladly roll the welcome mat out for George. But not a moment sooner!

He is literate, to the extent that he reads anything at all, and he’s not rock stupid, though he’s surprisingly unsmart for a guy in his shocking new position. He is extremely lazy and prone to listen to the last person who spoke to him, which, considering his Cabinet of Horrors, is not a good thing. What he does know…

I think you’re being generous in saying he would get it in six days. I think he could study a single daily brief for his entire life and he wouldn’t get even the basic info let alone the context and ramifications. Trump is rock stupid. I’m not saying this in the sense that he doesn’t know politics or international…

People have opinions. Get used to it.

I mean, I personally think name tattoos are tacky and basic as hell. Like, girl, you do you, but don’t pretend like all-lower-case-cursive-name-on-your-neck tattoos are like, OBJECTIVELY better than a tweaked-out bear. People have opinions. Get used to it.

Same. I don’t understand why she would want him to tattoo something he didn’t want to. Wouldn’t she want a tattoo artist to share her enthusiasm before they inked something on her body? Like hair stylists, clients are a tattoo artists walking billboard. Maybe he doesn’t want to be known as the cursive handwriting…

He didn’t take any of her money, he doesn’t owe her anything.

People don’t seem to get the give-and-take that comes with tattoo artists and clients. You can get exactly what you want...but it’s still their work. Their art, part of their repertoire! They have every right to refuse a job, just like as a photographer I have every right to refuse a job that I don’t see fit for me. I…

I hate to be Team Tattoo Artist, but just like you can decide where you want your tattoos, he can also decide what work he’ll stand behind and what he WON’T. Clearly you have artistic differences, as evident by your contempt of his other work. So why would you use him in the first place?

White girl outrage is always petty. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Exactly. No necks and hands is a super common rule among artists, and many of them do it for personal reasons (ie. regret, whatever) and for protecting the shop (it opens up a certain amount of liability if someone claims down the line they can’t get a job because of a tattoo you did).