“Either way, congrats Mindy on building the family you want in whatever way works for you.”

Right? I have a toddler and I’m pregnant again and often I’m gripping the edge of my couch until my husband can come home.

I can’t imagine taking care of two kids on my own. I mean, I’m divorced so I do it half the week but then they go to their dad’s and I take a big sigh of relief and clean my bathroom. And also they are older so they don’t need diaper changes. I know Mindy can afford help but man. Applause to her and all of the other…

If you see a photo of a heartbroken woman who is just about to give birth to her dead baby and your first reaction is to offer up any kind of hot take about ‘what people should and shouldn’t share on social media’, maybe you should stop and write a reflection on ‘why am I such an asshole’ instead.

So just because YOU don’t understand it, you assume the way she interacts with the world through social media is about gratification and sad.  Maybe the internet isn’t the right place for you.  

Yeah...no. Where it’s coming from is from people being assholes, full stop. If people’s “buttons are pushed” by “internet celebrities” or whatever you want to call them, it’s pretty easy to avoid. Just don’t follow them. Yeah, you’ll see some posts, but again, easy solution: Don’t click on them. And even if you do…

You won’t ever physically go through this.  You don’t understand the shame.  Take a seat.

People need to know that it is fine to not agree with someone’s way of life while understanding that expressing that opinion can be incredibly harmful. Chadwick Boseman was a live life quietly kind of man. His cancer diagnosis was not the only thing he did in silence. His marriage was carefully guarded. That…

Both men and women ‘test’ each other to some degree to figure out what the person thinks, believes, is about.  Calm down. All women are not out to get you.  We are human beings, as you are.  Not video game conquests or a breed of evil fucking witches. 

Men are a lot less likely to chat with female waitstaff when on first dates. And men are definitely less likely to chat with female passengers on the bus when with their girlfriends. Both of those are recipes for disaster for a man. Women do it more often. And men are more likely to put up with it. If a man does it,…

As a woman I can confidently say that if I’m engaging in a conversation with someone other than my date, it’s simply a conversation. Not all conversations are flirtatious just because they’re between two hetero people. I’ve dated outgoing men, they chat with the bartender and it’s fine, I’m not thrown by men who are…

By the time, I knew what negging was, it was universally understood, which defeats the purpose?

Women with men feel they can give you a compliment safely, because you will see they are with a man and won’t hit on them. Women alone or with other women who call out compliments (however G-rated) to strange men are risking their compliments being taken as an advance, and an angry response if they turn it down.

In my early 20s, I fell prey to a “self-help” podcaster who touted NLP as a way to fix all your problems. The way he spoke was very close to hypnotic for me, and I listened for hours. I had been suffering from depression and (undiagnosed) binge eating disorder. I was so desperate at the time that I used my credit card…

TIL being anti-racism is a controversial position, and some people hate profanity more than racism. Love America!

Americans have never, ever been good at nuance. So, needless to say, I’m not surprised that everyone has reduced Marie to a lady who is just telling you to throw away all your shit.

This was amazing and on point. Thank you.

I was with you until the whole her husband is a dork, it’s not about race or sex shit. Why do white people always want to tell you it is not about race without checking their internalized racism? I was not born in this country and yet I am always checking how casually racism is imbued into every part of our lives.…

I fucking LOVE my giant cast iron I got from Cravings at Target. Seriously, I use that damned thing every day and I got it on some wild sale (so, under $20!). I’ve had it for months and months and it is still chugging along great, despite me not properly taking care of any cast iron thing any time. It tolerates my…

This is so idiotic i cant even get my head round it. You don’t just recover from this thing then crack on with your life as normal. My cousin has just recovered from it (shes a nhs worked and contracted it at work), she now has pleural rub on the base of her lungs, the lungs rub together (you can hear them doing that…