I'm poor enough that I have to choose between food and toilet paper, but not poor enough for food stamps, apparently.
class issues
botox
I know it's not youth-culture-worshipping-approved, but I will be the first to tell you that I will be 40 in three years. I am not "perpetually 30," and I'm just fine with getting a little help from Botox along the way.
jobs
It’s hard not to drop the laundry basket and ask, “What the hell am I doing here?”
sexual attention
I DO find sexual attention immensely validating, and that plays into everything from the way I dress to my choice of career.
issues
Women look sexy and feel sexy when they're being themselves. If a dude is turned off by my bold lip, wait until he gets a load of my bold personality.
99 problems
Christina Aguilera says "99 Problems" is derogatory toward women, everybody feels a little guilty for loving it so much.
issues
Pretty much anytime someone I know lands a new book deal, after my initial feelings of being incredibly happy for them have abated, I think, “LESLEY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU LESLEY WHY HAVEN’T YOU SOLD A SECOND BOOK YET LESLEY.” This is Erfolgtraurigkeit.
issues
I'm a huge advocate of women talking about money -- and their salaries specifically -- loudly and publicly as a means of fighting the gender wage gap.
rape
Making the point that people with jobs in journalism have no business speculating about the truthfulness of rape allegations is well worth losing some steady work over.
selfies
Most of the time, I post a selfie because I think I look pretty -- today/in this light/in this lipstick/in this outfit.
class war
I’m one of those horrible Android users ruining your Instagram forever.
dating
I am not some census-taking dick measurer, OK?
birth control
My first thought on buying car trunk birth control? Ewww. But six months later it's more like, "Yay!!"
issues
Yeah, so I spent a lot of money to eat by myself in an unfamiliar restaurant in a city where I don't live. And it was great.
racism
Where she gets off acting like stereotypes and falsehoods are the god given truth is beyond me. She herself is part of a minority group that gets persecuted on the daily on shows like "Fox and Friends."
issues
When a girl who runs a thinspo blog uses your fat body's experience as a reason to starve herself, things just become a little bit clearer.
celebrities
Is it a crime to be wealthy and talk about juice too much?
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Apr 23, 2013 at 10:00am | 146 comments
disability
I don’t want to brag on my fellow crips or nothin’, but some of us have way better sex than nondisabled people. Hate to break it to you, but them’s the facts.
conflict resolution
A guy at the bar yelled "FAG" and I yelled... nothing.
birth shaming
If you don’t know a woman well enough to know how she feels about what’s happening with her vagina, then you don’t know her well enough to advise her on it.
boycotts
Calling for traditional families to boycott a catalogue over lesbians is bush league. Whoops. I mean... Hahahahaha lesbians.
girls
Sure, there's a lack of diversity on "Girls," but I could say the same thing about "Basketball Wives."
