Everything in common? Besides the choice to live much more frugally and still live relatively nicely. Which is a huge difference. They may be living the same way as a lower middle class person, but they don’t HAVE to be living paycheck to paycheck. It’s a massive difference.

Disproportionate? How so?

Why not both?

Calling flour tortillas “normal” is weird/aggravating. Just because you like them better or are more used to seeing them doesn’t make them normal for tacos, in the world.

It’s interesting that men are fond of telling women all we have to do to succeed in the workplace/be treated equally is force ourselves into stuff without caring whether we’re wanted not. Just ask for the money you’re sure they won’t give you! What’s the big deal? Just MAKE them take you to the meeting/outing they…

You can’t separate reproductive health from overall health, because you can’t opt out of having reproductive organs (and using them, if you’re a sexual being) the same way you can opt out of doing niche things with your car. Contraceptives are, fundamentally, a health issue for women.

I guess if you take it totally out of context, it might seem like I was saying that.

It’s clear that her issue with the microwaving of tuna is the smell. Like, abundantly clear. The comment was written in response to one that says nothing about the tuna beyond “it smells horrible,” and explicitly says about the woman doing it that she’s not a health nut.

It’s weird that you’re comparing “vices”/pastimes that aren’t necessary and don’t really have positive purposes to the process of human reproduction.

Centering your feelings about your personal appearance (and, as these kinds of tactics encourage, your self-worth) around other people’s desire to sleep with you isn’t compatible with longterm contentment, or with compassion for yourself and others.

Are you actually bad at reading, or just of the delusional Pinterest belief that there’s some sort of war on skinny people?

I hate it too, but I’d be lying if it didn’t make me happy in an evil kinda way as a 20-something that many of the worst Twitter offenders right now aren’t millennials.

Ugh, this is so stupid. I don’t know how people can earnestly purchase these things.

Eh, to a certain extent about the big things (delays, security, whatever), this is true. But it’s not true about human behavior, which is what makes flying extra, extra bad. Not everyone talks talks loudly, is inconsiderate about personal space, brings too much stuff and shoves it everywhere, screams on their phone…

I think the point a lot of people are trying to make here is that some people couldn’t foot the bill no matter how hard they tried, how much they wanted to, how much they prioritized doing so.

Because if we pretend everyone who has succeeded got no help, we don’t have to think about making changes in order to help other people do so, too.

It’s so important to talk about it, too! If nobody acknowledges they got help, there’s no conversation on how necessary that help is, and how society should/could change to give more people a better chance. Pretending you don’t have advantages when you do silences and erases those who don’t.

This is a super important point, I think. Knowing that if you fail/get unlucky, you’ll still have a chance to get back on your feet is a HUGE advantage. Especially in a society that pushes people so hard to “take risks” and “follow their dreams.” I can’t even count anymore the number of people whose safety net is…

This is an interesting response, to me. Almost every time people make comments about how some receive parental support and others don’t, people misinterpret the them as saying it’s bad for parents to do these things when able. This isn’t an “on the other hand...” situation.