I hate the “pushed” into an affair narrative too. As someone who is very open about the fact that I was a shitty person and had an affair, I make very clear to others who’ve cheated and tried blaming their partner that they are shitty too and know goddamn well their partner didn’t do shit to push them into anything.…

I love that Tamra is a better person AND she shows that just because you’re saved (or whatever the equivalent is for different religions) doesn’t mean you’re perfect and righteous.

Nope, New York.

I read Something Brorrowed for the second time a few weeks ago and pretty sure I had the exact same thoughts as I did the first time I read it: such good plot, great characters, executed poorly; if only a better writer had written it, it could’ve been great. I mean, the story is great but the plotting it out and…

To be fair, that’s probably what an AMERICAN would do (particularly if one identifies as white or black). My family (in-laws) and many friends are immigrants from Mexico and they do, in fact, clean other people’s toilets and pick tobacco and do other back breaking work to buy a gallon of milk (and other stuff too).

OMG I was listening to the same interview with my fiancé (a Mexican immigrant) and we were both fuming mad at that. The issue is so complicated as to why that number would be high (education, legal status, discrimination). And because I work in an industry that would survive without immigrant labor (in particular…

Wait, why are Driscoll’s berries not “eating clean”?

She quite literally looks exactly like my mom did in her pictures from the 70s and 80s, down to the glasses. While a part of me likes the glasses, I would never ever ever wear them. For several reasons, but most importantly because it would seal my fate of being my mom’s mini-me/twin (and I’ve worked my whole life not…

All the more reason why the press should be discussing it. People who understood the Supreme Court decision were shocked by its implications. This is an example of how that decision results in corruption like this. Just like the media is hammering home the results of Citizen United, they should be doing the same here.

This is nuts to me. I work in agriculture and have a pesticide applicator license. By law, by FUCKING LAW, either myself or someone I directly supervise are the only ones allowed to spray pesticides. And this must be done by the label. Any deviation, any off-label usage or not following label can result in serious…

For everyone saying stop holding Schumer responsible for a man’s actions/words: you’re missing the point.

Oh, please. HE’S an adult, too, and knows she’s probably “waiting it out” for him to change his mind. People who really want to get married to a particular person even when said person said no definitely not getting married, hold on to the hope. This is known. There have been movies made about this, songs sung, plays…

Perfect description of Sonja.

So, personal anecdote, but I think it explains. For about....three years? Maybe three and a half. I was hooking up with someone and told NO ONE. He was the hottest guy around, but he was a playa. And I was a playa. And if I spoke a word to ANYONE 1) I’d lose my playa card and so was not having that and 2) makes him…

Well, if the gossip is to be believed, at the reunion taping B had a breakdown when she realized how awful she came off. So, in the moments? A lot of people don’t see how they’re being. But in retrospect? Self-reflection is a bitch.

Context is always important. Anything can be taken out of context to be used against someone. But once context is added it makes more sense.

It really is amazing how people think that those belonging to a particular group have some sort of hive-mind or Borg-like mind, one in which they know everything thought by everyone that has a shared identifier! I’m (obviously, from my avatar) white and sometimes my not white friends say “can you please explain why…

Everyone was really and truly blessed by that teacher. She was amazing and that moment is one that hope we all remember—I obviously do some 12 years later! Talk about a teachable moment :)

This was highlighted for a bunch of classmates and myself during boarding school (don’t freak, it was a publicly funded boarding school for the “smartest” kids in the state, not some posh thing). It was just a few years after 9/11 and we were having some kind of Christian/Jewish/Muslim/Athiest meeting and one of my…

💯 basically, intersectional feminism. While mostly applied to white women (justly so), it also applies to everyone else, too.