Have you considered inviting her over for coffee and cookies (I don’t know) and trying to gauge where she might experience difficulty so you can give her some tips? Maybe she’s welcome that.

Sounds impersonal, but amazon gift card. That way if she needs deodorant, shampoo, she can get it. But also can buy some cute notebooks or pens (if kids still use that stuff). I would do that and then get her a little something for around $15-20. Maybe a cute shower caddy with awesome soaps (Whole Foods has amazing…

Maybe if it was explained to Lil’ Duval and everyone else this way they’d get it: punch up (or at least sideways) and not down. Trans folks are maybe the most hated, powerless minority in the country right now and they’re literally dying as a result. And btw, Trans folks are looked down on even within the gay…

It’s not about leading voters to the Democratic side - the Republican nominee for President has won the popular vote only once in the last quarter century (Bush in 2004).

I am also frequently mistaken for A Teen (I’m 31) especially if I’m doing errands in no makeup and wearing like, a t-shirt and chucks. I don’t usually mind it if someone’s just carding me at the grocery store, but I do get aggravated when people go on and on about it. I’ve learned to live with it and somewhat like…

The one union that the right isn’t looking to bust up at every given opportunity... Should tell us something right there...

Speaking of bad cops, the Detroit Free Press did a significant series starting today on how bad cops are rotated like pedophile priests.

I’m Chicana. Ethnic people can definitely be racist towards other minorities. Source: my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who say and believe horrible things about Black people

The issue isn’t whether or not this specific officer is a KKK cross burning swastika racist. The issue is the inherent and often unaware bias that exists among most Americans that gets distilled and supported in police forces. Police react to threats, and if you’ve grown up in a culture that frames black people as a…

Patina patina patina!! Such a scourge to clean. I can so live without patina or, in the kitchen, granite (with the holes, ugh) or black enamel or... lol oh man you got me started. I’m thrilled when I get a white kitchen to clean!

Joe, 17: I like that he’s the creative director of Nautica, I’m more into his fashion sense and what he’s done for Nautica. I like concerts and stuff like this, rap and hip hop, and it was in the city, so I was just like, why not just stop by?

FFS REALLY???? Little miss “Teehee, I try to stay out of politics!” Gets to step in when President Peepaw gets bored and starts sunsetting and needs to wander off to look for a big truck to play with, or a bunch of rural farm workers bussed in to cheer him?

America is the estranged and bitter teenager who just lectured Europe-Mom for being a drunk divorcee, slammed the car door, yelled “I’ll never be like you!”, reversed out of the driveway, and straight into a passing bus.

If they’re trying to convince me that he doesn’t have Alzheimer’s and the only person who can manage him is his daughter, they’re failing. Miserably.

I predict the level of outrage from the Right will be somewhere around zero.

I see penises and movie theater carpet when I look at that pattern.

I am a housekeeper for a dozen households and yes that’s where they shop. In my area it’s called Hobby Lobby. The bowls that sit on a table and hold balls woven from sticks are a particular favorite as well.

I’m right there with you. This is lovely and far more powerful than the “waify voice” thing. Also, thank you for putting some words to it for me! My husband loves to watch shows like “America’s Got Talent” and they’ll have young singers on with that type of voice and I just don’t enjoy it and haven’t been able to…

I don’t understand why the Kardashians are still a thing. Other celebrities have faded from the spotlight after gaffs or misbehavior that was a lot less worse than what these people do. Is it simply that their fans enjoy watching a slow motion train wreck?

I know you don’t want to say anything direct, but I think you are going to have to. Otherwise they will just continue on. And just because they are supportive in other ways they clearly have a blind spot with this subject (as you note yourself).