Navy or Charlie. I found some old bottles in a box. Apparently I’ve been dragging them around with me for years. I’m sure back then I thought I smelled lovely but they were both so strong, Even though these bottles were old, there was more than enough scent to knock me back a bit.

Thank you for the info. Honestly I think economic segregation is more of an issue now than outright racial segregation. Not that the two don’t frequently go hand in hand.

This. I posted something on Facebook about men needing to learn to take rejection better rather than women needing to learn to be polite and a friend’s husband commented ‘why not both?’ Why is it on us to ‘be polite’ when being polite can still get you shot? Why are we made responsible for the feelings and reactions…

Even so, it’s not necessary and is shitty, juvenile behavior that waitstaff/bartenders shouldn’t have to put up with. If you don’t like the way you’re being treated, put your grown up pants on and either complain to the manager or leave. Throwing shit at people, even if it’s just some fries, is as unacceptable as the…

Being handed the sweater on air was unnecessary and just made the who situation more obvious. The only question I have is why the cocktail style dress? I get that what she had been wearing didn’t work with the green screen but it just seems weird that the cocktail dress was the backup rather than a more plain,…

Yes, why should black women be able to enjoy the ease and convenience of running into Wal-Mart of Target when they need some cocoa butter or shea oil?

That’s the first thing I thought when I saw the pick. Just say you wore you hair curly in the 70s. Lots of women of all colors rocked the short curly look. Her hair looks a lot like my mom’s hair did in one of my favorite pictures of her. My mom’s black and she had her hair permed and dyed with blonde streaks - it was…

What’s changed is that we’re seeing more people at 300+ pounds and that people can hit as high as 800lbs and not be dead. That doesn’t change the fact that, whether these women are a size 12, a size 20, or a size 30, they’re still fat and people were more than happy to criticize them for it. Your comment does a good…

A lot of people aren’t able to open a regular bank account for a variety of reasons - poor credit, poor banking history, lack of proper ID to open a bank account, or lack of regular access to a bank. Prepaid cards are in theory more cost effective than getting a live check since people without bank accounts otherwise…

Does it really matter?

I just can’t wrap my mind around emailing higher ups because I made a mistake and was then corrected by a co-worker. I don’t spend a lot of time around fresh out of college people but I really hope that this is the exception rather than norm.

I eagerly await the outraged posting from John Burk, Soldier of Steel, about this representative of the U.S. military putting a political slogan associated with a particular candidate on their backpack.

Black Power Salute

I think the point is that, in general, boys magazines never have these types of articles at all. Not because boys don’t have insecurities about their bodies but because the people who produce these magazines don’t even see it as a thing, it literally doesn’t exist for them unless it’s in the context of bullying or…

Possibly because he’s not sure there’s a reason for him to join or he’s not sure of his welcome. Possibly be cause he’s not a sitcom or romantic comedy trope. Traditionally it’s been women trying to gain access to the perceived benefits of men’s clubs, not the other way around. And I didn’t say that a man wouldn’t…

If you want all-male clubs to admit women, then all-female clubs have to follow the same rules and be willing to admit men. I say this as a black woman who understands the need for minority groups to have their own spaces and who also understands that all-male, all white clubs have traditionally provided networking…

I’m guessing she’s talking about promises that she felt the agency made to her and, by extension, her son, that they failed to live up to. It sounds like her primary reasons for not having the abortion were that she was told incorrect information about risks to her fertility and that the CPC offered to assist her with…

Crisis pregnancy centers are all about stopping abortion. Whether or not they offer information on legitimate adoption resources depends on the people running the center. Even if they did, these centers don’t offer much in the way of practical resources to help pregnant women carry to term.

Or, rather, he wouldn’t have been born. It depends on whether you view life as starting at conception but there’s a big difference between a clump of cells and an actual baby. Had she had the abortion, maybe she could have had a child at a later point in time, when she was in a better situation and didn’t have to…

Not surprising. These people have a whole lot of magical thinking going on. ‘God will provide’ is a big mindset and they refuse to acknowledge the realities of people’s situations.