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I don’t need to take that test; I know I’d be really biased. I just can’t make myself feel bad about it..so, sorry, not sorry?

If either of my kids marries a hipster trans off-the-grid vegan who wants to invent a new, shared last name I would say “Mazel!” and buy them mixing bowls. If they came home with a legit Conservative...I would panic. I do not long for the days when POC did not have Civil Rights (1964 wasn’t so long ago people). I do…

Not only that, but one of the parties seems distinctly evil nowadays. It would not be the word “Republican,” that scared me so much as the idea that my kid would be committing to a relationship with someone who is (or at least votes for leaders who are) racist, xenophobic, misogynist, homo and transphobic, interested…

I was warned before taking my current job with Planned Parenthood it would be polarizing for future employers. Jokes on them. I’m never quitting.

You might want to look at Tits and Sass I think they also did an article on Hot Girls Wanted. Personally, I would rather read articles written by sex workers about sex work than read articles by civilians.

It is definitely a thing and I think physical abuse is pretty common.

Yeah, it is. My dad was awful to my brother, because he had to be a MAN. He mostly just ignored me. Or made unkind comments about my weight.

Totally. I have problems with the movie The Way Way Back, but its opening scene where the Mom’s Boyfriend played by Steve Carrel waits until everybody but he and the teen protagonist are asleep in the car to just tear that kid to fucking shreds elicited gasps from the audience, and they were earned. Apparently that…

Yeah I think they just get different kinds of crap a lot of the time. My dad was an engineer; academic achievement was really important to him. So my brother got a lot of “why can’t you be like your sister who is reading 4 grade levels ahead??” My brother’s not slow. He just wasn’t already reading and writing in…

I once had an obligatory winter concert thing in middle school. It was in the evening, and all the other 7th grade girls were wearing their first little black dresses. Some of them even got to wear their first pairs of black high-heels.

my great grandmother said “I never realized how attractive fat people’s faces could be until you.”

My mom was concerned about my weight basically always. I was chunky. Still am but a size 8 or so and I feel like I could make healthier choices or whatevs.

Grew up in Milan, where you see skinny models everywhere. The women in my family are small and pretty. I came out taller and bigger and hungrier. My mom goes to the gym seven days a week twice a day and has been on a diet since 1987, the time I was born at a low weight because she had decided she was too fat and…

I was 16 and getting ready for my first Homecoming dance with my girlfriends, which I would be attending with my first (and very new) boyfriend. We had scheduled appointments to get our hair done that afternoon, followed by makeup appointments a little later. Thus, it seemed logical to me that I did not have any…

I think my sister has you all beat.

My mom has done so many!

I overheard my mother and grandmother (her mom) discussing my weight after I’d had two miscarriages and then successfully (and safely) delivered my son. They both said they were “disgusted” at how fat I had gotten during the pregnancies and “mmm-hmmed” at each other that I would never be any lighter than I was that…

My mother never intentionally insulted my looks- but I was short and plump and the puberty fairy gave me boobs super early, while my younger sister was tall and thin and built like a two by four. And this the era of tight baby tees and low slung jeans, so no favors were done here. Every time I picked something up, my…

“Boys don’t like fatties.” My mom told me that about a thousand times. Guess what? Boys like me fine.