My heart broke when you talked about taking your braids out in the bathroom. Oh god, the feels. I wish I could hug that little girl and make it better. :(

I find people who are pretty, usually make a pretty good transition to either sex and stay 'pretty'. If a man is pretty (note this is not the same as handsome) the transition makes for a pretty girl. If a woman is pretty, the transition makes to a pretty man. Pretty is pretty as far as I can tell.

Yeah, there's a big difference looking outside in than knowing from the inside out. I've never met an someone that had a more inside perspective, at least that I knew about. I'm in the south and Mormons are the least of our religious problems. (Seriously, at least they're polite to my face.) Thanks for sharing.

Me too! Every Mormon I've met without exception has been exceptionally nice. And happy. Like, they just love their family and hanging out with their family and doing church stuff all the time. And like, not obligatory saying that. They're just seem genuinely happy and are always nice. I'm not converting, but I'd still…

You should move to my neighborhood. It's upper middle class trophy wives that think they're the 1%. It's all yoga pants and baseball caps (with the ponytail pulled thru) around here. I'm not one of them but I totally wear my yoga pants in public because of it. :)

Aww! Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. :)

That's what I hear too. It's a lot of "Well, even if you have a medical reason, it just means you have to work that much harder to be healthy." Fuck them. They don't care about my health. They just don't want me taking up space and looking at fat in front of their eyeballs.

That's what happened when I made the switch a few years ago from jeans around the house to yoga pants around the house. Now when I put on jeans, they're pratically torturous.

But...I guess my question to you. What if you were THAT fat? It's not like fat makes you a bad person. If you were THAT fat, so what? Being THAT fat doesn't make you lazy, gross, ugly, unloveable or any other terrible thing. You'd still be you, just in bigger jeans. And I promise, THAT is okay too. :)

"Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the laundry and competent wives have to bustle in and fix it. The assumption that women are naturally better housekeepers is part of patriarchy."

The HRC (Human Rights Campaign) asked it's followers to adopt their red logo to show support for equal rights. HuffPo wrote about it here. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/facebook-profile-pictures-red-gay-marriage_n_2957968.html

There's a line from Perks of Being a Wallflower that goes "We accept the love we think we deserve." It's a play off of that.

That's what I thought! I was like, damn, how is she ever gonna make rent!?

I came to the comments to say just that! She looks an awful lot like Minaj now. I wonder if she's going to get like...butt cheek implants? How far will this go?

It's not so much that I'm not open. There's a few things that are really working against me. I'm super isolated, I'm shy/socially awkward and my my recent relationship Tiger Woods'd me. I thought we were blissfully happy for four years and that I'd found my soulmate. Until of course I found out about the 50 women over…

Well, that's part of my problem. I'm SUPER isolated. I'm a single mom, with no family less than 10 hours away. My son has never had a babysitter. (I had some childhood issues and will never ever have a babysitter for him.) I work from home, so no office co-worker contact. Most days the only human being I see is my…

That sounds like heaven. I've never had a best friend, it sounds like the sort of breeding ground that best friends happen in. :) Clearly, I need to save enough for retirement to retire in Amsterdam.

It really is. I keep desperately clutching at straws and trying to convince myself somehow I'll find somebody. But the odds are really, really not in my favor.

*internet hugs*