self tanner...faux freckles... those are “skincare”?

She said she wasn’t wearing makeup. She’s wearing makeup. To you... who wears makeup a lot, it’s not makeup. To me, who doesn’t... it’s makeup.

That is still a significant amount of effort. I fully support Alicia on this, but as someone with acne scars, under eye hyper pigmentation, and sparse and nearly invisible eyebrows, it’s important to note the effort. Is putting a clear mattifyer significantly different than my tinted moisturizer with an spf? No. I…

Seriously? She is having someone glue individual eyebrows on her and you consider that nothing? I have no idea if she has amazing skin because that is way more than I have ever spent or had done on my face in my entire life. (Also, that “mattifier” is foundation with a fancy name, cone the fuck on).

But she’s not deliberately NOT wearing make up. She deliberately PRETENDING not to wear make up while she’s actually wearing make up to bring into focus the unrealistic expectations being placed on a woman’s appearance while creating another level of the already existing deception by trying to pass off a face with…

I kind of don’t care, but I do think it’s frustrating for someone to make a huge deal out of not wearing any make-up but then wear “some” anyway. Why the “some”? And why not just say you are wearing some? Because if the point is to encourage ladies to feel comfortable being make-up free, and you aren’t comfortable…

Mmm hmm. DFT basically told white america, “Hey! It’s okay to hate--go ahead & unleash your Id, folks!” And they did. And, we saw enough pics of 18-early 20s white dude-bros wearing ‘maga’ caps to make it clear our elderly, Wallace-era grandpas were not the only ones who voted for the current vile dimwit-in-chief.…

My eternal shame is assuming that people did not know those things about Trump.

You just described my husband, my dad, and a lot of the men I know.

Except they (the little guys) also voted for a guy who famously screws over (unpaid contractors) and cons (trump university) the little guys just because he made a bunch of promises he made no attempt to support. Shockingly he’s now screwing over the little guys. In the end they voted for a racist who has historically…

We do understand it. Rather than trying to understand the complicated global systems that control the ebb and flow of labor, recognize that their current livelihoods are a natural progression of the global marketplace, and come up with a solution that takes into account both the sadness and inevitability of such a…

Of course race factors into it. These people are mad because they’re being treated like Black people and they expect better because they’re white and this is a white man’s country.

The people you are talking about are concerned about their future economic situation. But people of color and immigrants are literally concerned about their lives. You are asking us to have sympathy for people who were so worried about having a certain economic livelihood that they threw those whose lives are in…

This* has been bugging me but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it before. Thanks for the nice concise explanation.

You mistake understanding for excusing. I understand their choice all too well. They were fed a fantasy where being a mediocre white man meant having a middle-class life with minimal effort regardless of education because the all boys club was in effect. To them, those were the days when America was great. Now,…

Oh oh they just wanted to keep their livelihoods?! They’ll do anything to put food on the table? Really? Why don’t they just work harder and pull themselves up by their bootstraps then? No one owes them anything right? That’s what they tell all the other colors of poors! The hypocrisy is astonishing. Guess it’s easier…

The whole “racism isn’t a deal breaker” crowd extends way beyond Trump voters, too.

You are making a distinction without a difference. If you believe that the only way to preserve “your way of life” is to embrace a racist asshole, then you actually have no issue with racism - i.e., you are racist.

From where I’m standing, there’s a pretty thin line between “I’m not racist, but I voted for Trump” and “I voted for a racist.”

And yet you have two “yuppies” from the city running for President. Both objectively rich, with college degrees, and friends on Wall Street. One of them giving vague, unsupportable assurances about bringing jobs back and the other with an actual platform and ideas to not only help more people get jobs, but to support…