I find it really troublesome when First Nations individuals complain about racism in the US and white people say “I’m x percent native American and I’m not offended so its not a problem”. I’m 1/8 blackfoot but white as can be, and I would not think of even commenting on the plights that First Nations peoples have…

Yeah, it came out a lot more offensive than what I intended. 99% of the kids in my school could tell Hui and Yin apart, but sadly our very white teachers could not. We literally had a teacher call a black student by another black student’s name, and when he was corrected, he shrugged his shoulders and said “same…

It really does suck, especially for older people. Our company just let go an employee who was 65. Luckily she does have another full time job (that has a vested 401k, health, and decent pay) but it makes me worry.

Exactly. I was 16 when the whole Terri Schiavo debacle was going on and all I could think was how cruel it was to make someone suffer because they “might” get well. In the end, she died of an incredibly painful hospital acquired infection because a miracle “might have” happened.

True, my husband has a B.A. in Economics and graduated with a near-perfect GPA. He couldn’t get any work in that field despite having great references and a previous internship because it was the recession and there were 40-something MBAs fighting over bank teller positions. OTOH, minimum wage jobs didn’t want him…

I was released from my job (the company was dissolving) and offered another position for a subsidiary company. Despite the fact that I was a kickass assistant, the manager of that location thought my skills would be best used as a maid.

That’s what I was going to say. I created my first Advanced Directive after I got pregnant with my second kid. I worked in Hospice and saw the Hell that the lack of an advanced directive can cause (including a gay former employee of ours who was dying of renal failure and had his partner kept away from him at the…

A teacher once let me use his cell phone because it was an emergency and the phone lines were down - using this logic, he should’ve been fired and imprisoned*

There was a debate on Facebook Tuesday night that got really ugly. It started with calling me the c-w0rd and b-word, then threatening to slice my uterus out of me, then threatening to kill my children so I’d learn the value of life. To my surprise, every single reply was from a woman.

She did survive, but they do think it was a contributing factor to her developing uterine cancer down the road. I just can’t believe some people would be okay with going back to that.

I’m going to be honest, whenever anyone gives me shit about abortion (including threatening to kill my children so I learn the value of life) I tell them the story of my great-grandmother, who was recently divorced and had been raped and impregnated by her married landlord. She had no other choice but a coat hanger…

Sorry you’re going through that. Things will come around in the end and your daughter will realize what a good dad and stepmom she has :)

I find that things tend to come around, too. I know a woman who lost custody of all three of her kids to her lying, abusive husband. She had severe PTSD (caused by his abuse) and had a suicide attempt, so she was determined to receive only supervised visitation. She drove the 5+ hours every weekend to see her kids…

I’m right there with you. I’m a maid and get very annoyed by Lena Dunham’s “OMG I’m so poor and my family cut me off” routine. I grew up rich, got completely cut off financially, and was living in a crappy, run-down apartment. So no, Lena, I don’t feel like your life is hard in that respect.*

Loved him in Les Mis, too!

Ugh, that’s horrible of her. Celebs seriously need to work on curating their tweets.

Confession: I actually adore Ice-T and Coco. Their kid is so cute too and they both really seem to dote on her. It also amuses me that a guy that wrote “Cop Killer” now plays a cop on TV.

Apparently, it can rip the IUD out due to suction.

The first cycle I used a cup on, I was working for 14 hours and only had the chance to take it out when I got home. I pulled it out and there was blood everywhere. I was also out of toilet tissue so I had to call Mr. Pandabus to bring a roll in. I was there, holding a massive clot in one hand, the blood drenched cup…

Always Infinity were my go-to pads when I gave birth to my kiddos. They not only absorbed the blood but actually wicked it away.