(omg thank you for that question. I had a copper IUD and was like, wait wha???)

Seriously, as if there wasn’t enough to thank Jamaica Kincaid for, already... HOW DID YOU EXPECT US TO GO ON WITHOUT SHADE COURT, KARA? PLEASE DON’T ABANDON US AGAIN!

Holy mother of brows, it will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I got my brows (and lashes) dyed when I was 20 and had really only ever worn lipstick and a little mascara before that. Suddenly, I woke up looking AMAZING every day: perfectly arched but still natural-looking brows and dark brown lashes - and I could still rub my eyes…

omg, right? sometimes I want to make facial expressions that are recognizable to someone more than 3 ft away from me. This typically requires visible eyebrows, which some of us lack (in tangentially related news: DIY eyebrow dye is pretty much the best thing since ever).

Seriously lol. I didn’t even notice that in the article, and just inhaled my soda reading this.

YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND THE STRUGGLE OF THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS PART-IRISH WHITE MAN!

ugh, seriously. My friend’s hella white vaguely-Irish-on-one-side ex bf actually brought that up when we were discussing “reverse racism.” We literally both fell down laughing [it was a carpeted room] at what we didn’t think could *possibly* be an actual argument, because: c’mon. But, yep, it was. He was SO pissed…

I had a classmate in high school who was 4'11" and went camping with high-heeled sneakers that had like a 5" rise (I guess they’d be like ‘sneaker kitten heels’ now, but that wasn’t a thing yet). She wore heels all the time, to the point that even at that age, her muscles/tendons had shortened to the point where…

omg omg I’m 5'7" and I still have trouble wrapping my mind around that being a Thing, but it SO is! My 5'2" friend described the same behavior, with the added fun bit of getting *picked up* by strangers, usually in bars/at parties, but still: never casual enough for a stranger to grab you from behind and lift you up…

ha - except it totally does. I can’t even begin to count the number of mistakes I’ve kicked myself for, after getting myself into dangerously rapey situations and having to somehow get out of them unharmed. Stupid, stupid mistakes.
But, you know, those were all made by *me,* the potential victim. I’m sure the…

(Just want to say how much I love that you’re doing that. The idea of a girl raised with it being totally a given that she’s comfortable when she’s being touched or kissed, so anything else would just feel bizarre [and not like ‘...I feel uneasy; is this normal?’ level weird, but ‘whoa, wtf? Knock it off, dude, you’re…

Yeah, you’re probably a lousy athlete, though...

(kidding)

They’re white *and* hardworking and they fear God and teach their children to obey the law - they don’t just sit around collecting government handouts and getting murdered by cops. That’s the difference.