I’m Black and a pretty good swimmer (not like Simone though!) - I love the water. I remember telling someone I’d been in the pool that morning, and he looked at me quizzically and said he thought Black people couldn’t swim because we are “less buoyant.” Like, our bones are less buoyant. This was a grown-ass degreed…

The question is not whether it’s possible for a kid to eat healthily on a vegan diet. The question is whether it’s harder to make sure that a kid is getting everything they need for healthy development with a vegan diet. And it is.

Vegetables food is great but I’m also really into cheeses food, myself. Oh and fruits food, in summer. 😉

Hmm. Didn’t think it was possible to make this crappy movie any more crappy than it already was.

I loathe this movie for so many reasons, this alternate ending just makes it worse.

Does anyone else agree that Gloria Stuart’s performance was not good? Can we stop pretending like it was?

There’s an extra scene in the hospital where they say that Jack’s body wasn’t in the hedge maze, and they don’t know what happened to it.

I don’t mean to be weird but I had no idea Kara was so lovely.

Yeah veteran here. People seem super confused by the idea of just standing at attention. Someone said something to me once. It was me and a bunch of my other less friends and he clearly thought I was being disrespectful. When I told him what was what he mimbled a thanks for my service and skittered away. It was…

Oh hell yes.

As an adoptee, I feel that your opinion on adoption is rather extreme.

Exactly. My mom didn’t abandon the child she birthed at 19. She gave him to his parents.

No it’s fucking not. Placing a child up for adoption is not “abandoning a child.”If this girl was 11 when she gave birth instead of 16 would you still be rattling off about her choices? What about if she was severely disabled? Do dead people “abandon” their children when they die?

That was what stuck out to me. It kind of broke my heart when he said no one ever fed him or tried to make him feel happy or special...so he fell in love. That’s what your parents are supposed to do. I want to shake him and scream that she’s not special or good for being kind to you.

We feel lots of ways, fair and unfair, about our lots in life, but that’s not an excuse for unrelated third parties to perpetuate the stigma against women and girls who give up children they cannot provide for.

I’m afraid I judge any relationship which inspires “my kids were taken away, but it’s worth it."

Any level-headed adult would look at this and say no. No, no, absolutely not. She is not a good person. She is fucking her own vulnerable teenaged son and using their estrangement as an excuse to justify overstepping the bounds of a parent. Not healthy. I feel for him, seriously.

I would give up any romantic relationship before I'd give up my kids. This is so fucked. In every way.

Argh, this made me teary-eyed. And I think that whole walking down the aisle giving the bride away is some patriarchal bullshit!

I normally hate the phrase “all the feels” but this story seriously fills me with all. the. feels.