This is how I make mine at home. With fresh whipped cream. Yummmmmm.

Ha, my husband pronounces it this way as a joke and sometimes he’s so used to saying it like that, he forgets the correct way.

That’s a thing? Really? I’ve heard a lot of feminist stereotypes but never “you leave bloody tampons everywhere.”

I borrowed by HS boyfriend’s jacket for a day, when I was on my period, and when I gave it back he found a wrapped, unopened tampon in the pocket (I had stuck it there to make sure I had one with me during a bathroom trip in case of emergency). He got all squicked out about it and acted like I was the jerk for…

Oh wow, how awful. Good for you for sticking up for your sister. Hope you’re all well these days.

Civilian reacts in response to aggression/perceived aggression from police officer and officer beats/shoots them - you can’t blame the police officer, s/he was in feat of his/her life..

Yep, I feel the same way. She at least isn’t placing blame on anyone else.

This is one thing that infuriates me about the cop apologists in these stories - the person getting beaten, or grabbed, instinctively moves away from the person swinging at them and they’re “resisting” or “fighting back.”

Even the individually not-horrible ones tend to band together in support when police brutality stories break. They seem to have a block when it comes to thinking there may be something wrong with their institution.

Very good point about the psychological burden. Thank you. How awful, and abhorrent.

I wish I could star this a thousand times.

Hillary, I’m so sorry. Thanks for sharing your story, I know it couldn’t have been easy to type out.

Best bit of the night (second only to the “anger translator” bit).

I kind of feel that way too, although I’m more sympathetic to this mom than the family from awile back, where they had packed their daughter nothing but garbage (I think it was like a bag of chips and package of cookies) and got a letter home.

I kind of feel the same way.

bout the law and how it has to be respected

That was my thought, too. My kid once started to run into the road and I grabbed him roughly and yelled at him over it - which was pretty visceral to me, I never yell. It wasn’t conscious as discipline, it wasn’t to punish him for behaving badly, it was pure emotion because in that moment I was terrified. I don’t…

because they were annoyed at the police

A few nights of riots and protest and all of a sudden everyone is calling for peace

That’s the thing. This has been going on for so long and the national media and the vast majority of those outside Baltimore did not know and/or did not care - there even wasn’t a ton of attention on Freddie Gray’s death until the riot started. Now that shit’s on fire, there’s tons of media attention and lots of…