Yes, agreed. As a woman, I like friendships where I feel good about myself and where the other person supports me, and I can support them. I’ve never understood the whole frenemy dynamic. It sounds awful.
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How would being too attractive/good work against it?
Nothing? It’s at least blurring the lines...
They’re all “that Santa.”
Yes, sometimes I think the fear around sugar consumption is a little extreme, if we’re at the point that we’re saying two shots of vodka are better than a mocktail?
Yes, sometimes I think the fear around sugar consumption is a little extreme, if we’re at the point that we’re saying two shots of vodka are better than a mocktail?
Would totally read this fanfic! I’m already invested in your world-building.
Ah...
Is there an evil little kid named Stuart who I missed? I know Reagan, Damien, and Joshua, but no Stuart...
God, can “This is why Trump won” please just die? There’s no one more insufferable than the oversensitive white people who think criticizing offensive behavior = going too far.
Just because she’s OK with it, doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be.
Have you read this Atlantic piece that interviews the woman who coined the term “emotional labor”? She says that it’s been misused...so you have people genuinely feeling like calling up a service to ask for their house to be cleaned is emotional labor.
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Reminds me of this SNL sketch...
Express’s Portofino shirts are pretty sheer, but they don’t show off belly buttons (that I’ve noticed...). If you have a good T-shirt bra, it should be fine.
“Since then, I’ve been trying to stick to restaurants that can handle my particular set of peculiarities, but, like anyone with both friends and family, I am not 100-percent in charge of those choices.”
I remember a thread where someone claimed to put the hotel channel changer in a Ziploc bag rather than risk getting infected with germs.
Prom isn’t considered a school event?
The sad thing about today’s world is that you’d be pilloried for using the n-word? Really? THAT’S the sad thing?
For people from marginalized communities, being able to look past racism/oppression/homophobia/etc. is a privilege they don’t have, though. Not everyone is as free or as safe as you are.
That argument also feels implicitly threatening. “Don’t alienate me...or I’ll go full-on racist!!!!”