Wow.....Lance Armstrong turned out to be all sorts of evil apparently....I wonder if the cancer thing was real now?

When I was in college, my housemates and I made BRA TREE because we couldn't afford ornaments. Also because #feminism.

Also, a bit of an Old Norse god of the homestead, and a bit of Odin (and a goat!). The history of Santa/Father Christmas/Tomten is my favourite example of why Christmas is a weird holiday, especially in my comparatively super-secular country (Sweden). It's a hodge-podge of paganism, Christianity, artistic…

My son once ate a 14mm craftsman socket. I still use it.

Well, in all fairness, I think we have more b/c a)a lot of us are mutts and b)there are so many colors a lot of non-white people come in. I know not all "white skin" is the same but I think it has less variation than the rest of us.

Baby poop is SO confusing. I know you can tell all of these things from it, and when she is acting weird, I just stare at her poop sometimes, hoping it will tell me what's wrong. It never does.

I went to Costa Rica with a whole bunch of White folks that didn't understand why I brought sunscreen. I mean, come ON.

I've had that happen as well! I was on a ferry when I was maybe 19 and there were about four Indian children were running around having a blast. One of them ran into an older white woman who glared at me and exclaimed "control them!" I was just kind of taken aback because I'm black, I have "baby face" so I easily…

What if someone adopted their kid, how fucked up would you be making them feel if every second person asked "oh hey is that kid yours?" like, fuck off. I am so mad at everything today good lord.

The wife (white) of my boyfriend's cousin (Indian) was once asked this about her son (whose skin color is closer to his dad's):

Several things seem to be converging here. Issues of race, gender, socio-economic status, etc. But most importantly, the driving urge for people to intrude upon the privacy of a mother (or dad) with their baby. Its almost like there is an assumption that because you are out and about with your kid, that gives any…

I'm 100% Pakistani and people ask if I'm the babysitter when I'm out with my little cousins (also 100% Pakistani) because their hair is very dark brown and mine is black, and they are a shade lighter than me. Who knew that not all grubby brown people looked the same?!

The question will come back, unfortunately. I am a Black and NA woman and have very fair skin. My mother has much darker skin than my father and she was constantly asked if she was my mother, if she was the nanny, etc. It stopped for a while but came back as I got older. I'm 29 and still am constantly quizzed on my…

As a biracial (black and white) person engaged to a white man, I've been worried about this happening when we have kids. Thank you for your eloquent post addressing this issue.

Eddie Vedder says "Man cheese lead on a shower says been more muffs on teddy mower skills"

I'm a breast surgeon, so this is what I do every day. It's nice in that it verifies what we all assumed would be the case. But, there aren't a lot of post-menopausal women out there who meet the risk criteria. It's a very limited and specific population.

"Girls and Corpses magazine"

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