No. That's too much of a copout, honestly. She's a woman that built successful businesses even before she was on tv, and basically has an empire now.

Last time I was in a diner at 3 am, I ordered as follows:

I hear people throw this out a lot. But isn't the person telling the anecdote also part of the statistic/data?

She probably comes off as defensive because every time she posts something like this, someone like you responds aggressively/defensively/condescendingly. And since we are all airing our anecdotes, I wasn't spanked as a child, I turned out fine, and I like being spanked as an adult. Boom!

This is exactly what we are wrestling with right now- our kid is 2.5, has a crazy temper and will rampage. There has been 2 instances of a INCREDIBLY light swat over a diapered bottom by his father. It was exactly as you put it, a reset. Neither of us are hitters, but when you are being bitten kicked, things are being…

I mean, I'll be honest. I was spanked and I don't have anger management issues. Or substance abuse issues, or depression issues, nor do I perform poorly on IQ tests or have problems regulating my emotions or my stress. I suffer from time to time with anxiety, but so does every other woman in my family (we're not so…

I am a parent of a 3 1/2 year old. I was occasionally spanked as a child. My husband was regularly hit with belt or similar as a child. Spanking is not one of our punishment tools.

Um, she didn't "conflate anything." The FBI got involved and told her it was likely a sex trafficking operation. But pretty white women, amirite?

You forgot "And make your bed"

To The Husband Who Left Me For His Intern

Film School Teacher.

I can't believe I didn't notice someone taking this video of my first time. It was the 90s - the video cameras were the size of large toaster oven.

As an animal care professional, I am not digging this enclosure/shelter/whatever its supposed to be.

Even if the horse is declared to be a legal service animal, that doesn't really excuse the pigs and chickens. Plus, if the horse is a nuisance to neighbors, ADA protection is void. Service animals are only protected if they don't alter the environment for other people.

OK. I don't doubt that the little girl adores the mini-horse and interacting with it is therapeutic for her. I also don't doubt that her parents are batshit crazy. Nobody sane keeps a mini-horse, an alpaca, pigs, dogs and roosters at a 50-foot-by-175-foot residential lot.

So sharing the results of research suggesting that loneliness is generally bad for health isn't "loneliness-shaming". But sharing the results of research showing that obesity is generally bad for health is "fat-shaming".

Also, plenty of incredibly "popular" people are incredibly lonely. See: celebrities.

Forget it, Jake. It's Lindytown.

It seems to me that in this (US) culture at least, there is definitely an assumption that married = not lonely and not married = lonely. There is such a huge emphasis on this - something I, as a foreigner, have really noticed. There already IS a level of shaming going on as it relates to non-married people (who are…

Really impressed how a sort of interesting article about loneliness managed to inspire yet another rant about fatphobia.