I don’t get that either. We’re not talking about luxury items like, just basic shit. And the bathroom overhead seems like a safety issue. Same thing with the intercom system. Way to make the poor tenants know there place, I guess.

I’ve noticed that, too, though I know that we get a fairly small selection of shows in the U.S. I’m guessing that the majority of shows feature mostly white casts with the requisite (insert ethnicity here ) friend/co-worker. The shows I’ve been watching lately - Are You Being Served, As Time Goes By, Pie in the Sky,…

Sadly that was their purpose in life. Their sole purpose was to make their masters’ lives easier and more pleasant. If they failed to do that, they faced punishment. Taking pleasure in serving is part of the slave mentality. It’s one of those teachable moments about both the physical and mental effects of slavery but,…

It looks like a fairly light-hearted children’s book. I would’t expect the book to show people in shackles being whipped Slavery was a terrible thing but you’re right, people are complicated and it’s understandable that slaves would experience happiness and enjoyment in life despite their situation. If nothing else,…

It’s all ridiculousness. Before all of this blew up, the same people supporting Cosby were criticizing him as an out-of-touch sell out air the black community’s dirty laundry. It reminds me of OJ. It was the same sort of conspiracy nonsense - he was being framed, it was all an effort to bring down a rich, powerful…

And your mindset is why Cosby was able to get away with this for so long. Too many people are more than happy to buy into Cosby’s image and to sell women, including black women down the river. Again. Cosby used his wealth, power, popularity and reputation to gain access to his victims and to protect himself from…

I’m going to assume these actually aren’t for real, outside use. I can’t see shelling out nearly $100 for a faux-aged metal can that’s going to get tossed down the alley or end up under a trash truck’s wheel. This just seems silly but, then again, lots of things at Anthropologie seem silly.

I can back up her feelings but not her actions. She’s angry, she’s hurt, she’s been betrayed and had been exposed to who knows what because her cheating husband couldn’t keep it in his pants. If my husband cheated on me I know my desire to hurt and humiliate him would be so strong. I want to put all of his business…

That’s so damn creepy. And I feel bad for your friend that she felt she had to have sex with guys because they wanted to. I know a lot of abuse survivors have a horribly messed up relationship with sex and consent. Hopefully she got some type of counseling.

This. It isn’t just one partner’s job to get consent. Both partners need to give and get enthusiastic consent. It can be verbal, non-verbal, or both but there needs to be no ambiguity about what’s going down. We need to work to change the whole women play hard to get trope because it definitely feeds into this idea…

This is very painfully true. It seems so outdated but it really seems like a lot of people still have the guys pursue while women play coy thing going on. It goes right along with women being considered bossy or bitchy if they communicate clearly, directly, and without obsessing about whether feelings are hurt. Good…

I wish you had, too! I’m not a particularly confrontational person and I’ve found myself in a couple of situations - not recently and not anywhere near as serious as the one the author described.- where I should have been much more direct. Instead, I froze up before babbling my way out of the situation. I’m ashamed to…

You realize that being scared stiff doesn’t necessarily mean scared and physically unable to move, right? And that freezing up can very much be a mental thing, a type of shutting down because you’re too in shock or afraid for anything more rational? That ambiguous behavior could be that she couldn’t figure out what…

To me gyms tend to be sweaty, hot, and stuffy. And kind of smelly. Even though I like the exercise program I’m doing now, I don’t really like being in a gym. I’m more of a home exercise person. I can’t ride a bike so biking outside isn’t going to happen for me anyway but I get the benefits both in getting some…

I wish more people understood this. Whenever someone says ‘why didn’t she just leave?’ or ‘why did she just lay there?’ all I can wonder is if they are totally unfamiliar with the termed scared stiff. Victims are shocked and afraid. Sometimes in situations like that everything shuts down and you can’t even move if you…

I’m big on walking at the local reservoirs - it’s free, it’s safer than walking on the street, and it’s a lot more enjoyable than walking on a treadmill at a gym. Having said that, I can’t hate on folks who walk on the treadmill or ride bikes at the gym. Not everyone is confident or skilled enough to ride a bike in…

Thanks! I like stylish as description as opposed to lazy - black pants match everything.

Cooking and nutrition. Nothing overly fancy but kids should learn the basics of how to prepare a meal as well as how to buy and cook nutritious foods even on a tight budget. They should also learn how to do some basic sewing, how to do laundry, and how to clean. Again, nothing fancy but they should be able to wash a…

If you’ll throw in growers of blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries I’m right there with you. Even a little bit of juice and I get itchy and my throat starts to tighten up. Something needs to be done about these dangerous products

Very true. I have weird reactions to certain products, particularly lotions. I’ve received a couple of samples from Birchbox that have caused my hands to itch and turn red - no rashes thank goodness. Those samples got given away to less sensitive folks. Sometimes you don’t know you’re allergic to an ingredient or…