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I Was a Victim of Cyber-Bullying {Lemondrop}

Nov 22nd 2010 10:26PM Let me get this straight--some internet slag went to undergrad at a place widely renowned as a joke in Boston and then used her MA in bullshit to launch her into the intellectually-challenging career of being a dance-whore/blogger dishing out pro-girl gems that boil down to "be drunk as much of the time as you can, act like a 12-year-old who desperately needs male attention, and try your bestest to look like a poor man's Ke$ha." Slag then decides that she and her sorostitute gang haven't played enough versions of high-stakes Mean Gurrrls at Tequila Rain this month so she goes to the only place where she believes she is valued more than $1 g-strip tips from lok'd-up douchebags: the interwebs. While there, the decides to aimlessly slander random ladybloggers because...they're making self-loathing Heidi Montag caricatures look bad with their...thoughtful optimism?? Additionally, everyone who disagrees with slags must be fat, and as we all know fat = psycho/stupid/boring/jealous/sober/fenway-less/hot mess.

Please. By 25, you should have grown out of Jerry Springer Show reject behavior.

Kate Middleton's Engagement Ring -- Would You Wear Your MIL's Bling? {Lemondrop}

Nov 16th 2010 9:58PM I inherited my Great Aunt's wedding set when she died. It was literally the only thing I wanted from her estate. It's beautiful, vintage from the 20s, platinum with a 3-carat center stone with two side stones and 5 stones on the band.

Is it what I would pick out for myself? No. But it's hers and that's why I love it and wouldn't trade it for anything. I wear it on my right hand now and if/when I ever get married I'll switch it. I joke that's I'll be a cheap bride because of it.

The new food stamp user might look a lot like you {WalletPop}

Jun 10th 2010 4:13PM You commenters just do not live in the real world, obviously.

I have 2 graduate degrees and receive food stamps and I am angry at myself for waiting almost a year to apply for them, since I have been eligible for at least that long. Clearly this doesn't have a damned thing to do with my being lazy, given that I worked my ass off for 8 years to become one of the 8% of Americans who have such a high level of education. I grew up poor and needed to have a career that would support my family.

But, unfortunately, I graduated in 2009...with an LL.M in Tax. This is typically a degree that leads to a very lucrative professional career. 98% of the American students in my program at one of the most elite universities in the country are still unemployed a year later (all of the foreign students have lucrative jobs in their home countries, of course). I paid $170k in just tuition to earn my graduate education (luckily my undergrad was paid for in grants), $100k of it in federal student loans.

Now there are no jobs. And I mean NO JOBS. No temp work, nothing--even in the big Northeastern city I live in. I am now also "too educated/sophisticated/intelligent/accomplished" for menial work like retail or food service, because these sorts of employers want dumb workers who don't question things or ever have the ability to leave. In the last 18 months, I have applied to at least 2000 positions in 10 states with no luck. I have been living on my savings and will soon literally be out of money, which means I will be homeless.

This is the new face of the poor in America, and you all need to wake up and stop screaming incoherent rhetoric that is no way related to reality.

Washington Post Reporter's 'Bigots' Tweet Criticized by Right {Politics Daily}

May 5th 2010 8:36PM "opposition to gay marriage is hardly a fringe movement. A majority of Americans tell pollsters they are opposed to it, a number that, if you take him at face value, includes President Obama. Presumably Weigel would also count as "bigots" the 70 percent of African-Americans who backed Proposition 8 in California."

Definition, bigoted: expressing or characterized by prejudice and intolerance.

Mr. Lewis, given the definition of the word as a start, Mr. Weigel is more than correct in his characterization of these people. And frankly, the fact that a majority of Americans are bigots, at any given time, does not excuse bigotry. The majority of Americans have been pro-slavery, pro-segregation, anti-immigrant, anti-African American, anti-female, anti-Irish, and anti-Muslim at various times. That doesn't mean that their positions were in any way "correct" or sympathetic. Prejudice and discrimination because of such arbitrary distinctions as the sexual orientation of adults or race, two things that are unchangeable and harm no one, is always wrong. Period. Regardless of political or cultural ideology. You don't need to be a "conservative" or "liberal" person to recognize facts and present them to your readers.

M.I.A's 'Born Free' Video Is Shocking -- But Does It Mean Anything? {Asylum}

May 5th 2010 3:15AM I suppose when you're saying "this could never happen in America," you aren't considering what American forces have done and are currently doing to people all around the world?

Because I assure you, we have a long history of killing "undesirable" (for whatever arbitrary distinction that may be) people for the hell of it, and certainly some of that was considered enjoyable (remember that ooooold clip of the soldiers in Iraq right after we invaded in a tank all fired up and playing "Bodies" by Drowning Pool? They were all gearing up to light up some "Towelheads").

Also, no one should minimize what we did to Native people here. Setting fire to whole villages is genocide. What we did was genocide. No one has ever held us accountable for it, either.

The Real Reasons Women Under 30 Aren't Having Sex {Lemondrop}

May 2nd 2010 1:12AM Sounds like me. I'm 28. My entire life I've had a super-high sex drive...until now. It was like it just hit a wall. I was the girl who wore my bf out--I could and would have sex 10 times a night if someone would indulge me. Luckily, I was never promiscuous.

But, over the past 4 months, I am practically repulsed by the idea of sex. I'm not interested, and it feels like something I will myself to do to satisfy my bf. When he's done, I don't even want to attempt an orgasm, because I just couldn't care less. Could it be stress or birth control? I'd say it's possible, but I've been taking birth control for more than a decade and have gone through arguably more stressful periods in my life without this side effect. Also, there will be no cutting out the stress or the hormones anytime soon (I take birth control precisely for the hormones). I feel terribly about it--I'm like a different person. I just hope it comes back to normal at some point.

'Help, I Have $122,000 in Student Loans' -- What Do I Do Now? {Lemondrop}

Mar 19th 2010 3:14AM Wow, the commenters to this post have clearly demonstrated that they 1) have never been to college; 2) went to college 30 years ago; or 3) don't have a remote clue about college in 2010. Are you all insane? Do you have any idea how much college and grad school cost?

Many, if not most, of the actual careers that make a good living in the country REQUIRE a graduate-level education in 2010. You need a BA to be a telemarketer now. My profession, law, requires a graduate degree to get in the door. And it was billed to me, and the public at large, as a stable, intelligent, lucrative career choice.

I have no loans from college. I have degrees in finance, law, and tax--all economic sectors that will never ever disappear. Just tuition for law school cost $100k--I paid for 1/3 of that with my savings and got loans for $65k, the fed max. I lived off my savings for the three years I was in law school during which time you're typically not allowed to work, or you can at most work 20 hours a week. My summer internships would generally pay $5k for 12 weeks. My tuition for my degree in tax cost $40k/yr at one of the best schools in the country, and it is also a credential generally required to practice in that sector. So, I am now in $100k of debt, before interest.

And the economy is gone. As someone else mentioned, now one is hiring. Period. I'm living off my savings, and don't have the luxury of moving home because my only living relative is also indigent--I was the American Dream baby who went off to school to make good and take care of the family. I now live in an actual city, where just the cost of rent, food, and utilities comes to about $2k/month. No going out to eat, no movies, no shopping. Frankly, no leaving the apt. That had to be eliminated. I went out one time this month with my bf to the art museum to save myself from the crippling depression of unemployment. We had a sandwich and a glass of wine at the museum (plus admission) and treated ourselves to Applebees--that cost me $100. I don't know where you people live so cheaply. If my bf didn't pay for the groceries, I would starve to death. And I have 3 degrees.

My inability to pay my loans doesn't have a damned thing to do with capriciousness, or irresponsibility, or bad choices. I worked my ass off to have a career and the economy stole my ability to have one. Colleges who charge $40k/year should be the ones you're pointing your judgmental fingers at. It has made us all indentured servants.

Opinion: I Had a C-Section - Does That Make Me Less of a Mother? {ParentDish}

Mar 17th 2010 4:04PM It's not "normal" to give birth via c-section, period, unless there's some sort of emergency.

The US is the ONLY country in the world where women give birth in hospitals as a rule. In the rest of the industrialized world, midwives are used. There are no drugs, either, which block that serious oxytocin boost women have when giving birth which begins the attachment cycle to our children. The way we do things in the US is probably why our infant mortality rate is higher than a slew of developing countries.

If you take facts to be personally offensive, then you can never learn. Or you yourself feel somehow guilty. If people in this country cared to educate themselves, they wouldn't have needless angry debates about things that are not a matter of opinion in the first place--they are facts.

New TouchBack Hair Marker Colors Grays Away (win it here!) {Stylelist}

Mar 3rd 2010 7:24PM I started going gray as a teenager--going gray young runs in my family (my grandma was completely gray when she was 17). So, I started permanently coloring my hair then. Now in my late 20s, waiting even a month in between hair appointments leaves me with embarrassing roots, especially because of my age. Medium brown would work for me.

Gay Couple in 'Arthur' Book Too Progressive for Grade Schoolers {Lemondrop}

Jan 31st 2010 4:58PM Wow. The people who write these comments are proof that America is truly the stupidest nation on Earth.

Anyone who thinks gay kids don't exist never grew up with a gay kid and simply listens to whatever random people tell them without verifying facts. I grew up with a ton of children who grew up to be gay, and they were attracted to the same sex in kindergarten--it was no shock that they were dating the same sex when we were teenagers or in college. As a hetero, I was attracted to the opposite sex at the same time...duh.

The fact that this is even an issue is beyond ridiculous. I guess we'll just cover up all the knowledge from children so that they can grow up to be ignorant people just like their parents. People are now banning the dictionary from schools because it has mention of sex in it, and this is the same thing. I don't think there is any part of life I wouldn't want my child to learn about, given the knowledge is never harmful, only intellectually beneficial. People that don't agree with that are the reason every other nation has better education. Facts are facts: gay people exist, gay families exist, and gay marriage exists. Just as other countries exist and the Sun exists. You cannot pretend them away by attempting to censor a childrens' book.

Additionally, anyone who thinks there is any mention of "homosexuality" in the Bible has never actually read it, or is reading later revised versions of it. And by the way, King James, the man a popular version of the Bible is named for, was gay. Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.

And to the person who said that no one looks at their child and wishes they grow up to be gay is wrong. I do, and I know many others who do as well. Having a gay son would be my dream---a kind, creative, sensitive young man that I could relate to much much than some macho, testosterone junkie neanderthal would be bliss.