Sunday Snippets: Oh, there's snow again edition

How marvelous. I'm going to go cry into wine.

Truth about cats and Part II

(TW) Completely awful

Relatives say the two women went to Galveston for Mardi Gras. Detectives believe they were killed elsewhere and their bodies moved. Reports also indicate that they were murdered in different ways. It’s currently unclear whether this was a hate crime or there was some other motive for the murder. “That was her girlfriend, that was her soulmate,” James Randle, neighbor to Britney Cosby, told ABC.

Who in the what thought this was a good idea? Me, shuddering in the corner

An interesting read

As same-sex couples marry, they will be forced to re-imagine many tenets of your “traditional marriage.” In doing so, they will face a series of complicated questions: Should one of us change our last name? And if so, who? Should we have kids? Do we want to have kids? How do we want to have kids? Whose last name do our kids take?

LOL-They are hysterical

Eternal love for bell hooks

I was talking about Occupy Wall Street, which kind of gave us elements of activism. But we are not in a 99 percent world. We are in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life.

YES, everything right here

"How many people are locked up in the US?"

Nope, not terrifying at all

That means moving away from the incremental strategy – 20 week bans, admitting privileges laws for clinics – and sticking to banning all abortion without exceptions, equating hormonal birth control (even the daily pill kind) with abortion, and advocating that women who have abortions be tried as murderers.

Horrifying (TW)

Venezuela’s soldiers are killing their people. The Government is sending their armed gangs to kill them and they have censored all the media in their country, even blocking photos posted on social media sites. They shut down all the cable channels that broadcast news, so they can’t know what’s going on. The people have no source of protection at all.

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A (short) rant on property

 

Normally, I love me some lingerie shopping. Victoria Secret's usually has what I'm looking for in my size (38DD no less) and they have excellent phone customer service.

Which leads me to yesterday. I was in Georgetown, shopping with a good friend of mine. The Georgetown store was one of the closest to her apartment, I normally shop at the store in Columbia, Maryland. The store barely had any body in it and their selection was incredibly lacking. I found something I loved, only to be told that the largest size it came in was a 36C.

And then I saw the panties featured above. It was in the bridal section, with lots of long white flowy items. I was disgusted. We like to believe we live in a post-racial/sexist world, but clearly that is not the case. Why the fuck is shit like this still being made? Property of the Groom? And no, I don't want to see boxers/briefs with the label Property of the Bride. Whipped husband jokes aside, that's not the point. Humans belonging to other humans is wrong, for whatever reason it's done. Women are encouraged to take their husband's name when they marry, I guess this is just an extension of that belief.

I also sent their customer service an email and will definitely be rethinking shopping there. Does anyone have any good lingere shops that they enjoy and possibly cater to the larger women?