My friend is dangerously lactose intolerant and regularly ends up in the ER because people say the stuff you say. It can be life threatening to him but everyone dismisses it.

Be kind and gentle to all genders. Implicit in this whole thing is the myth that men don't have feelings that can be hurt.

When you get PPD, it is very hard to self-diagnose. When you are in the middle of depression, you can't always see it. And most people have internalized the stigma against depression and don't want to be "that mom." Plus, you don't lose your personality entirely. If you are an A-type, fix it yourself, stubborn type,…

Me, too. Also Jimmy Fallon.

I, personally, am not able to find proof in the text of the actual interview that she just wanted attention. So I will take at face value that she had a miscarriage that was emotionally and likely physically painful. I will feel sad that another human being had to suffer that way. I will appreciate that she is…

I actually have found it to be a dismissive way to acknowledge something, especially by adding the "apparently." It says ,"I don't care enough to say something sensitive, like Condolences. In fact, part of me thinks you're lying anyway."

I think there are social factors contributing to the increased *reporting* of gang rapes. There is so much shame associated with rape that only when the victim dies or the victim is foreign does the rape get reported.

"Yeah, so that happened, apparently."

At the same time the budget grows, the population grows, the percentage of elderly grows, military expenditures have grown. If I have a budget of $100 and a population of 100 people in 2012, I spend $1 per person. If I have 110 people in 2013 and a budget of $105, the budget has grown by 5% but I am spending 95 cents…

The sequester is actual cuts. The proposed Republican budget (which is separate from sequester) has been described by them as just a slowing in growth of the budget, though that is debatable.

She's trying to be respectful of the experiences of other moms by getting it right. That's being decent, not dim.

She did not make up "baby blues". It is an actual term that doctors use to describe something not quite to the level of PPD. She didn't say she made it up, either. And for some reason, the dismissiveness of saying she did really got me mad. Probably a flare up of my own experiences of baby blues bordering on PPD.

At the end of the Chris Brown snippet, there was this: *_*

I didn't grow up poor. My dad worked in a steel mill. My family was classic lower middle class, but I never had a sense that we were poor. Then I started working at a non-profit where all my coworkers had gone to private boarding schools and brand name universities. I was the only one that went to a state college…

I saw the ad last week and then was shocked to see them prominently displayed at the Skechers store. I was really disappointed.

American media blurs nude images that air regularly in European countries. We are further along but still on the same spectrum.

Don't forget Oedipus. The Greeks beat everyone.

Well, they found their next slogan right there.

The key is learning the ukulele. And focus on being sweet. When I drool over him, it's not because I think he's buff. ;)

Hmm. That sounds interesting. You liked it?