Thank you...It’s a good way to cope with my ever-increasing rage and frustration about the subject. And every single time our shift ends and we leave I have this sense of panic, like “oh no. What if some of these antis end up staying and a woman tries to go in later and we’re not there?!” Makes me want to camp out.

Such kind words - thank you. It’s funny you call it “brave” because I’ve been doing this a long time (too f’ing long) and it wasn’t util recently when I was standing outside a clinic, not much going on, and I looked across the street and saw a lone car sitting in an empty parking lot facing the door to the clinic. All…

I would start by checking out your local chapter of a national abortion rights group and go from there. Planned Parenthood already has a pretty established program and frankly it needs less help and is less frequently targeted than the privately owned, smaller facilities and they contract with local abortion rights…

Me too. It haunted me for a long time afterward. It was just so dark, so sad and so unrelatable that I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

I agree 100% with everything you wrote and almost wish they antis thought all of this through and somehow reached a batshit crazy conclusion that reconciled all of these notions. The sad truth is that I think the vast majority are so obsessed that it’s about “killing babies” that they think of absolutely nothing else.…

Preach. Language matters. They aren’t “pro-life”, and fetuses aren’t “pre-born babies” for fuck sake.

I was shocked when they invited him back on to All-Stars because his disregard for the female chefs on his season was just so blatant. And yep, this is SO not an uncommon attitude in the culinary world. I was a bartender a good portion of my 20s and spent a whole lot of time with all of the staff - kitchen included -…

1oo% agree with you re: Feinstein and age in general. In fact, there are times lately when I’ve been grateful to the older members who have been in office for years. They seem to be the only ones lately who respect the longstanding procedural rules and traditions of the office.

“Depression, I like to say, is your own brain gaslighting you.” Stealing this. It’s perfect.

THIS. Man, how different my life would have been if I would have been routinely screened for it starting when I was a kid.

On our dime.

That’s what I’m guessing, too. The ones who were allowed to stop school had to have lived in states with lower age requirements, or declared them home schooled and then just worked around it that way maybe. I can attest to what you said about the parents not seeing the long term. It’s a horrible business that creates…

Yep, it is. My 13 yr old daughter is an actor and regardless of where she is filming, the production co. has to follow the education requirements of the actor’s home state and provide a teacher on set to fit in the required daily hours of school. In NY, you have to go to school until you’re 17, so if you live in NY…

Thanks. I thought I must have read that lazily because I kept looking for his party affiliation (“pleasebearepublicanpleasebearepublicanpleasebearepublican”) and couldn’t find it and then didn’t want to have to go look further online to see which party was in the minority in RI (see: lazy).

It’s so weird that the criminals and mentally unstable people all seem to live just in the US.

Agreed. But that fridge she had was the shit. I would hate it because I would never be able to keep it clean enough for people to be able to see inside of all the time, but since she had 72 housekeepers I’m sure it wasn’t an issue.

Co-signed on the weed.

It’s so bizarre! Now I just come to expect it. I used to order something that looked like a drink or would even lie and say I had a drink just to avoid the whole thing until I realized I was only doing that to make others feel comfortable and fuck that.

It also seems like wine and champagne are “fancy” and therefore you don’t have a problem. It’s weird.

Oh yeah, I’m well aware it’s not just moms. The discomfort around a non-drinker is everywhere.