It’s true that sometimes you need one... but I’ve had more than one nurse friend tell me that doctors often scheduled them hours in advance of knowing if it was needed in the interest of getting out of work at a certain time. Given my mother’s history of birthing I wouldn’t try a home birth, but I’m legitimately…
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Every time it says to me, “this system is not meant to protect you.” When I was younger I thought that these people were becoming obsolete and I just had to wait it out... now I know that they will continue as they are and there’s a system that’s built to protect them. I feel stupid to have believed otherwise.
I keep remembering during this unfolding thing that my high school homeroom teacher was the graphic design guy and he let me and others sit out the national anthem every morning because it always felt weird and aggressive to us. How bizarre and how lucky. If only everyone had Doug the graphic design guy in charge of…
I’d forgotten all about her but I used to read her on The Hairpin religiously and my last computer has at least 20 or so screenshots of her writing that I now remember I should try to salvage before I wipe the thing. There were plenty that just made you think, “Oh. Wow.”
When there’s family involved it takes it up a notch, especially I would imagine for a guy like him who seems very close and connected to his family.
I thought she was going to be -jazz hands- positive. Murdering parents doesn’t really give me the “let’s hold hands, y’all!” feeling.
First office job syndrome? “You wear things like thus, right?”
I think/hope that once the awkwardness of the group setting wears off a bit you’ll be proud of yourself. I was the slowest once during this massively taxing multi-day hike in a group of like 12 super-hikers... To the point that for a brief stretch one guy carried my pack just out of frustration that I was slowing the…
Tonight after telling a friend that I had someone she should be friends with she said, “I always know if it’s your friend they’ll be really cool.” And in an episode of sleep-talking I insisted to another friend that if anyone “came for her” (?!) I would kill them. And because she’s awesome she was not terrified by…
I had a similar experience! I was living in another country so I didn’t quite have my finger on the pulse but I read an interview with her and was like who is this person who was so articulate? Then I watched the videos and was fascinated because earlier in my life it was an identity thing to hate pop. I think I…
I enjoy your reviews so much. Thank you.
Meanwhile you’re so upset that people are suggesting that it stop bending over backwards for you? Oh so hard. Poor you.
Except that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in the US, so if you’re one of those girls trying to just be a kid and be at your school’s game, this has plunged you into PTSD.
Both things could also be true — the young woman might be mentally ill but she also may have made the right choice to try to get away from her mother. Being mentally unstable doesn’t preclude you sometimes knowing what’s best for you.
I get upset sometimes that my mother protects me too much (i.e. “I didn’t tell you about my cancer scare because I knew you were stressed at work!”) but the alternative seems like it’s a lot worse.
No idea about her marriage but the answer from me will always be, “She made my Grandma happy! Don’t ever mess with Judge Judy!” (And if my Grandma were still here she would shake her head knowingly and say “That Judge Judy, she knows how to tell ‘em” and she would be right).
I think there’s a phrase for this in psychology, but I can’t remember it right now.... there’s this effect where people think that when they’re successful, the path they took would make anyone successful. Part of it is aggrandizing your own effort. “If you fail, it’s because you didn’t do it right like I did.” I just…
Westworld was amazing. You picked right. Thandie Newton is an actress I didn’t know before and she is someone whose every project I will watch. Everyone else did a good job too.
I have been seriously considering becoming a foster parent lately. Not right now, but in the future, instead of biological children. I’m really interested to continue reading this set of articles. I’m realizing that my white-girl-privilege had me thinking that this was an act of service and not understanding that it…