Babies like to look at their Mom when they breasfeed. They don’t want the frickin blanket over their head.

I guess I just don’t understand how it’s all that distracting? If I’m sitting in front of a breastfeeding mother, I’m looking forward at the proceedings. If I’m sitting behind her, it just looks like the kid is sitting in her lap - at most I can see legs and an arm. I can see if someone’s giving a toast and nursing at…

Why? What’s the magic age where you “need” to stop? And I agree, wandering the aisle during a wedding ceremony is inappropriate, so isn’t keeping the kid otherwise quietly occupied the correct thing for the mother to do? As long as the kid was quiet, shouldn’t everyone be looking at the bride and not worrying about…

Something that is becoming more and more frequent is that one dose of Narcan isn’t enough. This often happens when fentanyl is involved.

“Dennis Shields had asked his assistant to administer Narcan around 9 a.m., believing he was overdosing on prescription pills, sources said.”

Still awful but it wasn’t suicide. It was an accidental overdose.

In total fairness, this is something that white people have been winking and nodding to themselves about since before their was a United States of America. If anything, this is the older American Dream: that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will be given the chance to sink or swim on your own merits . . . if…

“Fuck you, I got mine” is the baseline with those people.

The only doctor I can ever remember being held accountable was Michael Jackson’s doctor, and I feel like it was only because what he was giving him (propofol) was so outrageous that it couldn’t be ignored.

She definitely looks the best out of the older sisters, and Kylie now that I think of it. She’s the only one (aside from Kendall) who still has a human looking face. Kim, Khloe and Kylie all look ridiculous with what they’ve done to their faces. 

I was a jaded recent college grad when The OC premiered. Personally, my high school experience was ruined by Moly Ringwald movies. Why didn’t a hot senior boy with a red Porsche and a heart of gold fall in love with me on my sixteenth birthday? Why wasn’t detention a bonding experience? Why didn’t I get to roll…

I never thought about this, but you’re totally right. With celebrities, we have a basic understanding that their life isn’t an accurate representation of what life is like. Now, with everyone curating their own social media presence, it feels like that is totally their life. 

In response to your edit, of course we need it repeated. If seeing one picture had the same effect as seeing hundreds, then no celebrity would have more than one picture on their instagram. No company would show more than one ad. No magazine photo shoot would need more than one photo.  “Welp, that’s what Selena Gomez…

The internet has taken fantasy—that is, a kind of life apart from the real—and woven it into an ever tighter noose around people’s beliefs about said lives and what they should be.

There’s a sarahsscribbles comic about the snapchat “beauty” filter, I’ll try to find it.

the big difference is that internet didn’t feel like “real life” at the time

I think it’s important to show what is and isn’t real, but not in an “omg she’s a total uggo” way, but more in a “let’s celebrate actual bodies, people and achievements ” way. Otherwise as you say, it’s just destructive.

A lot of those women became millionaires and even billionaires selling young girls a body image that was no more real than anime. There is value in pointing out how much of a lie the image is. And I have to ask, is the lie not misogyny? Is photoshop, hours of make up, surgery, and a team of experts to post a single…

Looking at celebrity close-ups makes me feel better about both my skin AND my makeup skills.  Perfection in either is unattainable!

Ugh, same. I almost never go, and when I finally do, I’m reminded of why I don’t. Had ankle pain, went to the ortho that performed surgery on that ankle before. Looked at the x-rays and MRI - result? Here’s a script for a powerful anti-inflammatory.