none were more French than this guy.
The only half-decent answer I've come up with is to donate your money to NGO and non-profit organizations working in these countries.
I was working in medical supplies. I brought in about ten million dollars a month for my company and did the order processing, billing and sterilization of medical supplies. Also set up the builds with the product manager and handled inventory with 7 international warehouses, the smallest of which had over 2 million…
I worked at a fairly large cadillac dealership in the service department. The service department consisted of a very long building with service stalls on both sides and the dispatch office (where I worked) was right in the middle. I was one of the very few females employed in this department. It was a fun job but…
This isn't so much a "quitting" as it is a bridge burned. Consider it the best time I quit giving a fuck.
It's really difficult not to hate this woman. I grew up in this kind of smug, judgmental, repressed religious environment. People thought they were so nice and generous when they condescended to hate the sin, etc., but the stifling of individuality, of independence, of sexuality of any kind was just so fucking stupid.…
God forbid we have to explain anything to our precious, precious children!
I comment on here regularly but created a burner because I am not ready to out my child before they out themselves. M came out to me 3 years ago, confessing that they had known since the age of 14 they were living in the wrong body. Had been wearing gender appropriate clothing in private for years. M has done tons of…
Even holding by the "no mistakes" mind set they could easily say that god gave them a daughter in the form of a son so they could transition and grow as a family, to show that the spiritual self is more important and to shape the physical to meet the spiritual.
...that God doesn't make mistakes...
You're a good parent. I think there are way more bad parents in waiting, than good ones. Many parents haven't shown their true colors bc their kids are straight. So, they can wipe their brow, say "phew", and keep pretending to be more open-minded than they are, bc they never had to take or pass that test.
I have a friend (more like an adopted mother since I live far away from my family) and she continues to inspire me because of stories just like this. Her son is transgender and the entire family is so, so supportive. It first came to light when he began to menstruate, and his mother finally sat down with him and…
Are her parents happy now? Instead of a child who did not grow up to meet their personal expectations - because, holy shit, that never happens to any parent ever — now they have no child. Bastards.
I said 'fuck it' this year and told everyone I was donating money and asked them to do the same. Xmas is on budget and 100% stress free this year. I will never go back.
I don't see divorce or single parenthood as a bad thing, probably because my parents rocked it. They've always had a friendly relationship and an excellent co-parenting relationship. We still celebrate major events together as a family, and my parents are fine together. My mom even calls my dad randomly if she's…
I respectfully disagree. I think that poverty is a "pecked to death by ducks" scenario. Each blow is small, but all together they weigh heavily on you And then you lose respect for the system, and then yourself and how you fit in that system and then finally the society that allows the system to keep you subjugated.…
Just because it's inconvenient to the campus rape discussion doesn't make it untrue. It's not a zero-sum game. Young women enrolled in college and young women at an economic disadvantage can both be victimized, and the suffering of one does not diminish the suffering of the other. Just as the existence of prison rape…