She recalled eating tulip bulbs during the war. That’s why, in addition to UNICEF, she worked with CARE. She remembered what it was like to be hungry.

I wouldn’t call her dull. She was thin because she was incredibly malnourished during WWII, and suffered a lot of health problems due to it. She did many tremendous things to assist the Dutch Resistence against the Nazis. She put herself in danger to distribute anti-Nazi pamphlets and she delivered messages for the…

As an actress, I don’t really have an opinion of her. I honestly haven’t seen much of her work. She was an amazing philanthropist, though. During WW2 she worked as courier for the Dutch resistance and danced for secret fundraising events. After she retired from acting she was the Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and…

No, she was a bad-ass, incredibly enlightened humanitarian. Audrey forever.

My husband and I aren’t upper middle class, we’re like barely middle class, and he’s white; I’m Hispanic. Anyway, I was raised by a single mother who didn’t get her GED until I was 9 years old and we were on welfare until I was in junior high. In all that time, I don’t remember my mother ever complaining about how…

I think the last show that I saw that really depicted a middle class family and the challenges of parenting well was "Malcolm in the Middle" The house looked like a family lived there and was cluttered and messy, the people had real jobs and real job issues. The mom and dad looked like a mom and dad sometimes nice and…

Don’t a lot upper-class whites (upper-class in general) complain about shit that the rest of us as normal and might actually appreciate? When you have no natural predators...job loss, low income, crime, police killing you, you have healthy food choices, you have life sercurity...you have to find some bullshit to…

Goodbye. I have perished from the stupidity of this article. I’ve loved you all.

Even the term mental retardation was removed from the latest DSM.

Right, it’s vicious. I’m a mom, I love my kids and devote a lot of time and energy to raising them, but I’m equally liable to be judged as “having no identity outside of motherhood,” though that’s completely false.

That’s what I thought. And what I experience in real life. People with kids are nice and everyone seems to look at everyone else with empathy instead of judgment. Its the people without kids that judge the most. They are the worst, as proven here.

“retardy”

There’s a rumour that her secret daughter is pregnant so Janet is going to raise her grandchild as her own.

I’m happy for her, but there are eleventy million Jackson descendents.

I read an interview with Ms. Foye and she whined about how moms get to leave work to pick up their kids from school but she’d get shit if she left work to console a friend who had a bad OK Cupid date. Are you fucking kidding me?

I dunno, I *get* the outrage. This whole “meternity” thing shows that most people think maternity leave is a perk or a vacation and not a necessary time to heal after EXPELLING A HUMAN BEING FROM YOUR BODY ONE WAY OR ANOTHER! I mean, the fact that maternity leave still isn’t mandatorily(ok i made that word up) paid…

There’s NO way this book wasn’t a massive “no such thing as bad publicity” troll. Or at least no way she didn’t expect some sort of backlash.

You kind of already do. For any time off that is unpaid by the employer, an employee has to file for short-term disability and FMLA - all done through the employer. So literally my first day home from the hospital after having our son, my husband went into work to email my employer all of my documents that had been…

From the linked story:

Jesus, dude this sucks, I normally like the What Would You Do? show because the scenario always involves actors and, like you said, it’s the bystanders who get to make the choices.

You didn’t have a say or any choice and that was wrong of them. Totally. I’m sorry you were blindsighted and embarrassed, I would be…