Franzen’s argument about Wharton was so much worse than that. He said she was a great writer, but between her creative talent and her wealthy background the only thing that made her remotely sympathetic as a human being was the fact that “she wasn’t pretty.”

This woman is a true American hero.

babe this whole thing is a joke

there are actual peer reviewed studies that came out in 2014 and 2015 which also showed that diaper insecurity is a predictor for post-partum depression in new moms. So glad this is being addressed.

The not-being-able-to-buy-in-bulk issue (for anything, not just diapers) is one that so many middle/upper class people don’t understand. The first time my husband visited my family, he was appalled when my dad bought a single role of paper towels from the grocery story. Later, he whispered to me “I thought money was…

I didn’t think I cold love Obama anymore than I did. God, I was wrong. And for whatever troll comes in here talking about cloth diapers, cleaning those gets expensive too. Money for the Laundromat, getting to the Laundromat, etc. ..

Garland is a moderate, but he’s not “center right.” If anything, he’s center left, with every indication being that he will join the liberal wing of the court on most social issues.

North Korea has pubs?

you should lose your job as a human. i can only imagine some bumfuck good ol’ deputy talking local girls off the ledge and out of following through with a rape accusations because he knows brandon’s dad and they’re good people. ya know, if we go though with this, everybody will know you’re a slutty slut and brandon…

Normcore?

Yeah, but. I mean. I aspire to.

I read this as a warning to all other people like me: don’t say maybe to PTSA secretary because next thing you know you’re the President. Don’t say maybe to seem nicer, y’all.

Well shoot that’s not fair. My mom and I* were all dressed up walking around Paris one day and we didn’t make any cover :(

I didn’t think that was strange at all. There is a long history of Black men being stereotyped as being hyper sexual; most lynchings were done using the excuse that the man had supposedly raped (or even just looked at) a white woman. There is a genocide happening right now with Black men being locked up at record…

True story. It was either late 2013 or early 2014 and I was visiting some friends in LA and ran into Mr Simmons and his Brazalian Mr Oliveira in an antique shop. I was admiring a tie when and speaking out loud to no one in particular, “I like this tie”, “I’m gonna come back for this tie”, and “I really like that tie”…

I agree. This woman would probably cause me to drink bleach after about 5 minutes. I think she has valid points as well but I feel she’s alienating more people to her feelings than gaining their understanding of it. They are definitely less impolite ways to share your feelings with others without shitting on them for…

If shes crying in her preschool aged kids hair, im going to take a wild guess and say this woman has issues that are not being addressed or handled.

“There will be times when you’re going to be asked to play guns, or to do things that you know aren’t right. I can’t be here to help you during those times. You have to speak up for yourself.”

I’m all for speaking up and speaking out about many issues, but having been a primary school teacher for a long time, some of the complaints that were made at the school and library illicited involuntary eyerolls. Kids do things like turn the lights out on each other because they are impulsive and do stupid shit.

Yeah- I’m surprised how many people thought that this woman was doing so much good. I think she’s hurting the cause by coming on too strong, too early in most of these examples.