Granted I haven’t been following the entirety of her makeup thing, but I don’t feel like she was trying to say it was different at all. I got the impression that her whole thing was that makeup was, to her, covering up parts of herself. Perhaps she feels skincare is different. Honestly, I sort of agree - I’ll go weeks…

How did I not see this likeness before??????

I get the frustration with the industry as a whole, but I also feel like there’s almost nothing a public figure could do that would be good enough to contradict that. Like could she strip down to soap and water only and maybe the occasional sunscreen, and live like a “normal” person? Maybe. But she wouldn’t get jobs.…

I’m sorry to ask this question of you specifically, but it’s been weighing on my mind through this thread and yours is just the most recent comment to bring it to the forefront on my brain, but ... how is the message that young girls are getting from this “Alicia Keys - one person in a world of made-up people - might…

DAMN, I lose my feminist card again. You win this time, thetallblonde!! Until the next bullshit hoop we make women jump through...

Wait I buy my face soap from Ulta though, and is has a nice scent and allegedly shrinks my pores, so doesn’t that make it makeup? WHY ARE THE RULES OF IDEOLOGICAL PURITY SO HARD?

Or even just to FEEL good. Don’t put a ton of stuff on my face and I wake up feeling like the scaliest dragon known to man or Hobbit.

Yo we haven’t even STARTED on hair. So much product, just to go to bed.

That’s basically what I wear to go to bed.

Of course not, there’s still a ton of work for the rest of us to do. And I hope he gets a jersey with that name on it.

I half agree with you, in that I pay as little money as possible for my kid’s stuff, but there’s a point at which you have to accept that as a parent your kid is gonna lose shit and it’s only worth the energy to get irritated about it like 30% of the time. Kids lose stuff because they’re young and they don’t keep…

Do they allow crayons at Leavenworth?

Seriously, the literal best thing Obama can do right now is stay low and live his best life. Let the infighting and lack of logic play out as it needs to. And also get some sweet ass beach reading in.

I think that only underscores the arbitrariness of the dress code - when I think business casual, I definitely don’t think shorts, unless your business is taking place on a beach while wearing boat shoes. So shorts being allowed while leggings isn’t just raises more questions to me about what, exactly, the point is.…

I would like to thank the North Carolina Values Coalition for making me aware of this book, which will be added to my child’s bookshelf post haste.

If she’s two and hasn’t already started, you might have passed her some of your genes! My kid started losing his shoes as soon as he could walk - took one off and pitched it over the side of a stroller, never to be seen again. You’ve already made it this far - fingers crossed for you!

Fair point. I pity the teacher who has to put up with thirty rain ponchos, but I also definitely played light sabers with my umbrella inside a classroom or two, so it’s probably a wash.

I just hope everyone in that household is going to a real good therapist, cuz oof.

By that logic, don’t give your kid an umbrella. Or shoes. Or jackets. I’m 98% convinced kids just need to be covered with a fine layer of Velcro for about fourteen years

Granted I grew up in Southern California and only had air conditioning in one of my classrooms prior to high school (where the air conditioning was still only in some rooms and was terrible in the rooms that had it) but I’m pretty sure I had a water bottle basically permaglued to my hand in the late 80s and all…