Literal definition of a diet: the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason 

This perfectly puts into words how I feel about Michael Jackson. I don’t pretend to know the truth about any part of him other than he was a deeply disturbed and traumatized man who, as a result, behaved outrageously and inappropriately and in ways that normal well-adjusted adults cannot begin to comprehend. His life…

And like a sheep, I click on every damn article and hate myself for it. As my teen daughter said, “Mom!?! How do YOU know who Bad Bahbie and Lil Tay are? You need to stop, mom.”

Your argument is undercut a bit just by the Gothamist article, where long term residents even say they hate the noise, one even saying if you know a quiet place to live let me know. Most people actually like to be able to sleep through the night. 311 calls on dumb shit like people selling loosies or just being there?…

Trust me when I say, gain weight and you’ll become irrelevant at any age.

I’ve also found that men who say “I don’t like women who wear a lot of makeup” are really talking about heavy eyeliner and false lashes. Most of them are too stupid to realize that that “natural, low-maintenance” look they covet is actually pretty heavily made up as well.

You KNOW he absolutely sucks in bed.

If attention from men has an expiration date then it’s not attention I want. But I also dated a man in his 50s when I was in my 20s and he was a total emotional cripple. It was toxic and abusive. So I contributed to this problem and was harmed by it enough to see that younger women ARE NOT benefiting from this…

Honestly why are we so afraid to judge people who get off on seeing women raped? Motherfucking absolutely I judge you. We rightfully judge people who get off on “race play” because that shit is just fucking racist, and simulated or in many cases REAL RAPE should 100% be looked down upon, because it’s fucking misogyny.…

If he’s upper income and he moved to a lower income neighborhood, he’s still a gentrifier. Gentrification isn’t just about race. It’s about replacement. When affluent people move to a place, they bring their preferences and their capital with them. Rents go up, boutique stores move in, and the original people leave.

He probably only thinks of 25 years old model bodies.

and this type of “sex” aka rape is being normalized to women and girls and men and boys who watch this shit. 

I tried for YEARS to be a Journal Person (who knows someday my record of daily life may be invaluable to a historian!) but it never stuck. A record of the day had the boring sameness of a rote lesson in third grade, and switching to “well I’ll record my DEEP THOUGHTS” mode revealed that my deep thoughts are ....not…

I used to have to wake up at 3:15 a.m. for work and had a stall shower with a seat in it, which I would routinely sit down on and then fall asleep, only to be woken up when the water started to turn cold. One year I resolved to stop falling asleep in the shower. I don’t remember how long it lasted--a couple of weeks I…

Journaling is my most commonly failed resolution. I have several nice journals with one long entry a few smaller sporadic entries and then a shopping list or two until it is abandoned.

Dry January 2019. Made it until January 3. 

On days when Husband is going to work and I’m home, I count the minutes until he leaves so I can tidy away the little rat’s nests that form around him wherever he goes.

That’s the spirit! Somewhere to ditch the outdoor shoes and hang up the coats! I would also accept an enclosed breezeway between the garage and the house, if I had a garage.

As my name might suggest, I LOVED this movie and identified with it on a visceral level. It’s not just infinitely quotable. I was bullied/harassed by the kids I went to school with and RMHS came out right before my freshman year. I watched it religiously as a reminder that things would get better, and the moment when…

Gee. It’s almost as if enforcing a cultural norm of zero work-life balance makes it both harder and less appealing for people to start families.