Dolezal graduated from Howard with her Masters in Fine Art in 2002

See this makes me wonder, was she ever trying to pass? Or did she just hang around Black people for long enough that people just started assuming she was Black and she never bothered to correct them?

We need a Lifetime movie to sort this hot-ass mess out. I suggest casting Emma Stone, she’s the only actress who could…

Can you explain what this means? White girl here and am legit curious.

Yeah, I felt that way too, and a lady in neighborhood wanted to throw a shower for another friend who was pregnant with her third boy, relatively close to the second. The friend was hesitant, but the lady said, “every baby deserves to be celebrated!”, so the friend said okay and asked for only books (for any of her…

I have heard of that, and it’s disgusting.

Ever hear of “Pay per plate”? A Bride I know once only chose gifts from a registry that were of equal or greater value than what it was costing her per guest. I hope someone had the balls to gift wrap a rabid raccoon.

I can go either way on those - if your first kid is a boy and the second is a girl, I can see having a gift-a-thon for that. Orrrrr if you are like a friend of mine whose kids are 9 and 5, respectively and therefore she no longer has any baby stuff in the house and you get pregnant (surprise!) at age 40, I can see…

Stag & Doe is a popular term in Canada, I’ve never heard of Stag and Hen!

The history of the bridal shower comes from the Dutch. They took place at the behest of the mother and close female family/friends of the bride-to-be when the father did not approve of the groom and refused to pay for items she needed to start her own household. The women in her life would buy everything so that she…

WHAT. NO. What is wrong with people? They are monsters!

In some cultures it’s considered unlucky to prepare for the baby in advance. The idea behind it is that you’re tempting fate by preparing for a child tha might never be born. I’ve heard that that’s a Jewish tradition/superstition (apparently not shared by all Jews from what I see here), but it exists in other…

I was so, so irritated when I heard a colleague bemoan the people who didn’t give her and her husband “enough” money, when her parents paid for the ENTIRE wedding. You don’t get to complain about a gift not meeting the cost per plate when you didn’t pay for the plate to begin with.

Wait really? Why not doe? Why’s a deer marrying a chicken? So many questions.

“$700 sous vide machine” LOLOLOLOLOLOL. You MUST donate to charity in their name as a gift. And then tell us about the reaction.

Good point. I BEGGED my best friend/MOH/HBIC not to throw me a bridal shower. She asked what my specific reservations were (mostly I think it’s a tacky gift grab and I don’t like to inconvenience people) and listened sympathetically. She then told me that while she respected my reasoning, she was planning one anyway…

My MIL’s friend is getting remarried in August. They’re both in their 50s, have fully grown children, two homes full of crap and they have a wedding registry. IT’S HUGE. Four different stores!!! And it’s full of ridiculously expensive shit, like a $700 sous vide machine (not joking). My MIL has “forbidden” me from…

The problem here isn’t that they’re asking for cash, I don’t think, so much as they’re completely skipping the part where you celebrate with your friends and family. They’re being far too open about the fact that they don’t actually care to see any of those people - they just want their money. Which is basically…

Opening presents at my (forced) bridal shower was one of the most awkward experiences of my life. I am really really hoping to get out of a baby shower, and hoping that by being Jewish I can. I am not too hopeful though. I would LOVE if instead we could all just drink wine.

We don’t do showers in the UK; they’re viewed as grasping and tacky. But if I got an invitation stating no boxed gifts, my gift would be lots of tupperware boxes, individually wrapped.

No more free stuff for the Duggars anymore