It is often not said as “you’re huge and awesome!” It is often said along with questions about what you’re eating, or if you’re exercising. I had a person say “wow! look how big you’re getting!” and when I said “yeah, I can’t believe it” assuming they were well-intentioned they said “you know, you can still exercise.…

She is “fat” for her industry and is probably told so by power players on the regular. I agree it is a little tone deaf when most people are heavier than her, but it might be her reality. I am pregnant right now and the number of people who walk up to me and tell me I am HUGE (even though I am in the normal weight…

Was it always in his mind to run away? (Probably. Wouldn’t it be in yours?) Or did it come after he was sent back to Mount Vernon? After Washington decided, “hey, you’re the best chef I’ve got but I’m going to send you back to the countryside and have you make bricks instead to show you I’m boss.” That’s how much…

The American Girl historical books have some minority characters that are portrayed very respectfully. Cecile is a black character who’s charitable, well educated and from an upper class family.

I am a children’s librarian and I am just flummoxed by this book and how it came to be. Vanessa Brantley-Newton is a talented Black children’s illustrator, and she illustrates books that positively represent people of color. I’m not too familiar with Ramin Ganeshram although we do have a few of her books in our…

Hercules was most likely not super amped about baking George Washington a birthday cake since he actually ran away on Washington’s birthday.

Comments like these blithely assume that all people consider slavery inuversally terrible, and a deeply shameful part of American history, but this isn’t the reality at all. There are politicians who talk about the good that slavery did for black people and black families (!!!), and George Washington in particular is…

Heck yes! Abayas are a gift. Not sure what to wear? Abaya. Need to look polished and professional? Abaya. Exhausted & cannot fathom getting out of your jammies? Abaya. Want men to stop staring at your tits? Abaya. Going to a fancy event and want a glorious reveal? Abaya!

I mean...clothing in general is optional only for a few, but that doesn’t stop people from wanting to talk about it?

I purchased a djellaba as a student while visiting Morocco. Gotta tell ya, those things are amazingly comfortable. They entirely hide the body, eliminating the western “body performance.”

Wow, way to take out personal adult grievances on a small child!

Believe it or not — full time jobs.

Look, I’m not saying these aren’t great places for the people who want these outlets, but I’m so sick and tired of being pressured to go by friends who bought Groupons and Living Social deals. There has been such a boom of these in the past couple of years, that we’re going to see them die a fiery death, like the…

Hah, she should come to my docks. You have to back off Lincoln Avenue in Chicago through the L tracks. The docks are in the lower left of the building with the striped roof by the three red cars:

As you suggest, 0 to 100 F is a pretty solid scale for understanding survivable human temperatures and those experienced on the planet Earth.

Because to 99% of people, it just doesn’t fucking matter.

Using the word retard in that way was totally unnecessary and just makes you look like a foolish asshole.

Outside of a labroatory setting, Farenheit is better for understanding temperature of weather.

What the hell bearing does that have on this? Are you suggesting that if the sign was in metric she wouldn’t have driven her truck onto the bridge?

US ton is not the same as imperial ton (2,000lbs vs 2,240lbs). Same for gallons—imperial is 1.2 times the amount of liquid as US.