I’m reading this 7 years later and I’m sure it’s because he’s sensitive. :-/ How did things go with him? Is he ok now?

Maybe that’s something T can do to show he gets it now. Make this film with this scene...

Aw and thank you! I ate like this too, as a kid in the 90’s. My mom and her friends were anti sugar and artificial dyes before it was a widely known thing. And while I did go through a college phase of feasting on crap occasionally, I always ended up craving and eating lots of greens. ;) Now I’m 33 and our diet is low…

I am like you except i do have a family. Never gave my child Dino shaped nuggets- she ate smaller portions of our clean/healthy meals from the time she ate solids. Sure, I’d chop it up a bit extra in the early years and went easy on the chili... but she grew up eating real food and now she’s ten and gaaaasp *still*…

Our neighbor died suddenly from acute cancer a few years ago. Right up to the surgery, he was active and making music (musician). Not an old man, maybe 65. He was of his generation and kept the whole illness secret like it was a shame, and then he died.

look, if talking made things happen, I’d have won the lottery and hailed as empress of the world right now, ushering in a new era of peace, enlightenment, and unity. I talk about that shit all the time, it helps me cope with what a crap hole everything is. And yet it hasn’t happened.

I feel you. A woman from my past outed herself on Facebook as not being supportive of a friend who had been raped, in response to a New York Times article she’s read on perps/enablers outing themselves. That friend was me. She didn’t name names but anyone who knew us both would know. I was alright through “grab them…

I was part of their target demographic, watched every week so I knew wth other girls were talking about... and I always hated this show for every reason people hate it now. It’s been satisfying to watch the rest of the world catch up... ;)

That’s a common autistic/Aspergers trait. Can also go along with “top of the class”...

1- at first glance, I thought the header pic was jenn Anniston and I thought “you looking good, age gracefully babe.”

Eh, I don’t have one, either. I just dont like them, I don’t like the sound they make. And I like the mindfulness aspect of using my grill/stove to heat things. I wouldn’t go on about it’s energies though lol.

Thank you for writing this. It jives with stuff other friends have said to me. And I figure if “mom” knowledgeable about all this stuff and shares it freely, it removes a lot of the teenage appeal.

Even just reading that bit in your comment makes my blood roar in my veins...

I just want to say, I mostly don’t teach her these things as a lecture or weird talk. We watch tv shows together, that I’ve previewed and digested. They’re above her level just a bit, she gets excited about watching slightly more grown up fare from time to time and talking about it with me. When things unfold on…

I figure if nothing else, she will be well informed and be able to have empathy for other people when bad shit happens, instead of being one of those “that never happened to me so I don’t understand you and I’m going to shit on you” people.

Absolutely. My thoughts on it are that 1- kids aren’t stupid, so i *never* lie to her or hedge difficult questions. I feel that a lot of parents do this and it severely undermines their credibility with their teenage children. So when we were watching Brooklyn 99 and they used the word “orgasm” and she asked what that…

Agreed. I’ve already started with my daughter. She’s 9. She knows her body and how it works / what will be changing in puberty, she knows the mechanics of sex and we’ve worked with her since toddlerhood on consent (no you don’t have to kiss grandma if you don’t want to, it’s your body.) I’m hoping that’s a solid…

This. Even ten years ago, the conversation around consent was t what it is now. I got together recently with college girlfriends, one of them was getting married. At some point, we were reminiscing and the stories turned to these fucked up things that had happened to each of us, that at the time we’d all known about…

Ugh I know you’re right.

Ohhhh idk about privilege, I’ve done without and done without and done without and done without and made do to be able to live free as I do. It’s a question of personal priorities more than privilege. My prioroties include not wasting my gifts in the service of shitheads. At my last job, I realised I’d literally…