I know a woman who was denied sterilization (in spite of both she and her husband not wanting kids) because if she ever divorced her current husband, her future husband might want kids. The hypothetical man that didn't exist had more control of her body than she did.
I've embraced the gray-ness of life; uncertainty, endings without closure, nuance. Even the gray in my hair. Life is rarely black and white, and sometimes there is no clear answer. And understanding that has helped me let go and stop fighting so much.
I'd be considered fat. My friend would be considered ideal, though you wouldn't know she has disordered eating issues. Health-wise I run circles around her. Or in other words: you really, really don't know what you’re talking about.
I'm over spending money on restaurants that just aren't worth it. For me that's that whole line of places like Applebee's, Village Inn, IHOP, Dennys, Chile's, etc. It's mostly frozen and for the same price I can eat better at local places.
I had a friend group for over a decade, starting in our mid twenties, who would play board games and such together nearly every week. They would not. Stop. Telling dick jokes and drawing penises at every opportunity. One even considered herself the modern Lucille Ball of comedy in…Â
Nor do they want to enact programs that actually reduce abortions, like real sex ed and easily available birth control, raise minimum wages, universal Healthcare, etc. These are measures proven to give them the result they claim to want: fewer abortions, yet they nearly universally…Â
My boss gave everyone a $20 bill and said "thanks for your work at the Ren fair!" Everyone thought it was a bonus. In reality it was in lieu of what they should have been paid for working the event. So their "gift" was actually negative wages.
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