Opals over diamonds any day, thanks. Opals are flawed, and that’s what makes them beautiful.

I am very into emeralds visually but green does not suit my coloring, while blue makes me look alight with the glow of fairies.

Emeralds are where it's at.

Diamonds aren’t even that rare, yo! All you plebes with your diamonds need to take a seat and bow to the superiority of the sapphire.

It’s for her undergrad thesis and is already a blog.

HARD PASS.

1) trains are awesome

When I was 13 (which was well before the days of the Internet), I would have LOVED it if someone criticized what I wrote based on its substance. That would’ve meant that someone skipped past the detail of my age and wanted to engage me as a person with thoughts and opinions.

I dunno, excellent answer but it makes me a little sad. She’s a kid! She shouldn’t have to put her political opinions out there for the consideration of adult strangers! This time she got it “right,” but would it be okay to criticize her if she got it “wrong”? It feels like the internet makes it hard to be a teenager,…

She gets it from her mother.

In this day and age, it’s entirely reasonable for preteens and teens to be exposed to feminist writing etc. online, especially if she’s using Tumblr. Don’t write her off just because she’s young.

Well, they are a working breed.

There are border collies that are smarter than adults, full stop.

What an insightful kid. Her talents are being wasted on that abomination of a show.

Is smarter on feminism than some adults, at risk of damning with faint praise. There are border collies who are smarter on feminism than some adults.

The truly American thing would be to charge for ketchup but give your richer customers loopholes to pay much less for it.

Wouldn’t free ketchup actually be commie? Charging for it is very American and capitalist.

“My husband and I are vegan. My daughter is vegetarian and both of them are allergic to gluten, lactose, shellfish, soya, onions, peppers and GM foods.” I’m assuming the kids survive on eating air, then. Assuming it’s not red air, cause they’d probably be allergic to that too.