bro to bro: if you like skinnier girls, get yourself a skinny girl. if you like thicker girls, get yourself a thick girl. if you like fitness girls, get yourself a fit girl. you are entitled to your own preferences.
but what you are not going to do bro, is date a girl who is not your type and make her feel inferior to other girls.
Comfort during menstruation should come naturally. Through affordable pad prices. Through free pads in public restrooms. Through availability in schools and workplaces. Through policies that actually consider women. Menstrual hygiene is healthcare. Not luxury.
Happy menstrual hygiene day
Amaka went to get pads. She wanted to get 3. Then she checked her purse, looked at the price tag, and did the math. She could only afford 1. Last month, she could afford 3 packs. Today, only a single pack.
I saved for months to attend a Christian conference where my favorite preacher was ministering.
Not just any seat.
Front row.
Close enough to hear every word clearly.
Before the session started, a lady tapped my shoulder.
“Hi,” she smiled softly. “My church group is seated here, but my ticket is for the overflow hall downstairs.
Would you mind swapping with me?”
I looked at her badge, then mine.
“I’m really sorry,” I said kindly, “but I sacrificed a lot to be here.”
Her expression changed immediately.
She turned to her friends and said loudly,
“Imagine coming to a Christian gathering and refusing to show love.”
Another girl added,
“We’re believers.
Why are Christians so selfish these days?”
I stayed quiet for a moment, then replied gently:
“If giving away a seat is the loving thing to do, why doesn’t one of you swap with her and sit downstairs?”
Silence.
Nobody moved.
Nobody volunteered.
And in that moment, I learned something important:
Many people admire sacrifice when it costs someone else.
But wisdom is knowing that saying “no” does not make you less like Christ.
In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.”
The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove.
So I got pissed.
Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids.
Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women.
That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm.
Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.
A woman on my flight yesterday switched seats with her husband because their toddler wouldn’t stop crying.
The second she sat down alone, she closed her eyes for maybe 30 seconds.
Just resting.
Not sleeping.
When the husband walked past with the kid later, he laughed and said loudly,
“Must be nice to finally get a break from doing nothing.”
A few people chuckled.
She laughed too.
But something about it felt off because for the entire flight she had been:
holding the baby,
packing snacks,
cleaning spills,
walking him down the aisle,
missing her own meal trying to calm him down…
while the husband watched a movie with headphones on.
And honestly I think that’s why so many women are exhausted.
Not because they’re doing everything alone.
But because they’re doing everything while someone else calls it “nothing.”
I paid a woman to come help me wash clothes after I just recovered from a sickness. My husband came home with one of his friends that day to pick something up and they met the woman washing.
I went to my room and left them in the sitting room and I heard the friend telling him “why are you allowing someone come wash clothes for your wife, can’t she wash it, my wife can’t try that”. My husband just replied him “that’s why God gave everyone their wives”. No long talk 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My Bobo sabi response d!e, he no allow am come our house again since that day. Amebo oshi, I no know wetin concern him 🤣🤣🤣
to do something kind and make my evening a little better.
I stood there holding my emergency supplies and honestly felt a little emotional.
The bar is so low that a man showing basic thoughtfulness can feel genuinely shocking.
The ice cream was excellent.
So was the gesture.
Needless to say, I agreed to a second date.
I canceled a date because I wasn’t feeling great.
I told him the truth. My period had started, I was exhausted, and I was in one of those moods where even putting on jeans felt unreasonable.
I assumed we’d just reschedule.
Instead, he asked if he could stop by for a minute. I said yes.
A little while later he showed up at my door with ice cream and chocolate.
He handed me the bag, gave me a hug, said he hoped I felt better soon, and then left.
That was it.
No expectation that I entertain him. No attempt to turn it into a shortened date. No “well, I’m already here, so can I come in?” He just wanted to........
To stop ants coming in to your house leave a saucer of milk outside. The adult ants drink it & it has an effect on ant reproduction. The young are born without toes so they can't climb in to your
cavity walls.
This effect is called lack toes in toddler ants.
Mary Ann Bevan was a London nurse whose life changed when she developed acromegaly, a condition that painfully distorted her features. After her husband died in 1914, she was left with no income and four children to support, facing a world that refused to hire her because of her appearance.
To save her family from starvation, she entered a cruel"ugliest woman" contest and won, eventually moving to the U.S. to work as a circus sideshow act. She spent years traveling with the Ringling Bros., stoically enduring the laughter and insults of strangers to earn a steady paycheck for her children's upbringing.
She died in 1933, having successfully used her own public humiliation to provide her children with the education and stability they needed. Today, her story is no longer seen as a "freak show" curiosity, but as a powerful example of a mother's ultimate sacrifice and unconditional love.