Sucking it up and trying if you’re a swimmer or basketball play may look like a slower time, or a sub-par performance. Sucking it up and trying when you’re a gymnast can mean serious injury, paralysis, or death. She made the right call and her entire team supported her and went on to kick ass themselves.

Good God, the pony fell on her? She’s lucky not to be paralyzed.

Perfectionist culture is white supremacist culture. The idea that someone must make no mistakes / never prioritize their health in order to be the “greatest” is a toxic belief we must eliminate.

Seems to me she’s protecting her mental and physical health because if you aren’t in a good headspace you can seriously injure yourself doing gymnastics. You can hurt yourself when you’re in the right frame of mind so I can’t imagine what it would be like dashing toward a vaulting table and trying to tumble off it…

Comments about people’s appearances can be normal, non-creepy parts of a conversation, but you have to make them in a normal, non-creepy way. It’s really not that hard yet so few people seem to be capable of doing it anymore.

You know what’s a solid compliment? Something like “your hair is awesome!” or “those shoes are really cool!”, said from a respectful distance, and then going on about your day. This horseshit is none of that.

(please forgive me, i’m not sure exactly what the correct way to say this is). “flight attendant of color”, and I knew that shit was about to get real.

“(please forgive me, i’m not sure exactly what the correct way to say this is)“

The correct way to say that is “Another Flight Attendent”

Unless that woman is your girlfriend, your wife, or a friend you need hype up before hitting the town, KEEP YOUR FUCKING COMPLIMENTS TO YOURSELF.

Alternately, you could just not complain that not everyone is living with your child’s children’s safety as their focus. 

You’re right. I’ll just quit my job and pay for housing, groceries, and our $1400/month ACA health insurance out of pocket with my “responsibility to keep my kid safe.”

We made the decision to go back on birth control the same weekend we found out I was pregnant, to ours and my OBGYN’s surprised given my uterine health problems. So, great comment from you, other online person.

I’m sorry to hear about your wife. It is terrifying, even with the vaccine. I see that some people are already in the grays fighting back against the pushback with the “everyone has to judge the risk for themselves” rhetoric. We aren’t just affecting ourselves when we choose to socialize during the pandemic. People…

Yeah, personally I find the casualness of this article really terrifying. I have an infant that has to enter daycare soon. I know that people are going out and about and doing things like group fitness classes, including these babies’ caregivers and the other babies’ parents. I wish I could work remotely until he’s…

My taekwondo classes recently had us doing some ground work for the first time since the long before. With the delta variant surging now, I doubt we will be doing it again any time soon. It wouldn’t surprise me if we went back to remote classes or outdoor classes within the next few weeks.

Sorry (not really), but this is a stupid risk to take, even with the vaccine. We literally just had two staff members do something similar. They have Pfizer, went out to a public place with no mask to mingle with a bunch of strangers, got infected, convinced themselves it couldn’t possibly be COVID, and then infected…

I think this will be a fad and won’t last long. People have lives, and those lives won’t be spent “just hanging out” in a commercial space of any kind. Not to mention that the pressure of “last quarter capitalism” will take a VERY sideways look at the costs required to maintain people’s interests for longer than the…

And NO ONE was protecting her.

I shudder to think of the kinds of things that have happened to Lindsay Lohan that we don’t know about, especially since she started out so young. 

Mezcal is tequila with the leaves smoked before processing. If you don’t get a smoky flavor from a mezcal, it’s because you got a crappy bottle.