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You know who you are. I’m not going to ‘out’ you but you NEED to cut it out! — I WROTE THIS PIECE A YEAR AGO AND YOU CONTINUE TO MUTILATE OTHER WRITERS’ WORK TO THE POINT THAT iT iS DIFFICULT TO READ, EVEN UNREADABLE. YOU ARE NOT BEING FAIR TO ALL WHO WRITE ON MEDIUM! Dear Compulsive Highlighter: Genuine praise from you and other readers is desirable and very welcome indeed. Snarky comments come with the territory, along with being ignored or garnering very few reads, followers, and/or claps, and making little or no money.

Enough already—who are we trying to kid? Plus, it could kill us — This piece is not about the poisonous killer makeup of the past: the ones containing mercury, lead, arsenic; nor about the cruelty of false eyelashes sewn onto women’s upper lids or the torture of corsets, hoop skirts, girdles, and stiletto heels. But it is telling to note (and I am…

But what if you’re too scared? — Last week I witnessed what looked like excessive police force against a person of color; in this case, a Black youth: teen or pre-teen. I did not see his face as it was turned away from the street while he was being frisked. I was on my way to Whole Foods (where all us Karens shop) to return something useless I bought the day before, from boredom. The most succinct definition I have found…

Yep. You nailed it! Love your stuff. It’s so awful yet so accurate. Do you have a virtual tip jar here? By the way, I am tired of the ‘Buy me a coffee” at the bottom of most, or many Medium pieces lately.

Love this, as I do all your pieces. This is the reason I have decided only to buy through Amazon, though I hate to say it. They take back anything for any or no reason. I made the mistake of buying shoes from some other online seller. I didn't like…

Thomas Hobbes called human life ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’ How would he describe death? — My husband and I are fairly recent transplants to the Deep South. I still don’t know if we are, technically, Yankees or assumed to be Yankees or what being a Yankee even means, if anything, these days. It’s not that people are unfriendly. They mostly ignore or don’t notice us…

Great piece. I would clap more, but I have arthritis!

A place to tuck your giggles and titters — What’s in a name, you ask? Enough to fill two Double-D cups, by all accounts (yuk yuk yuk). But why, Mommie? Why are the most common words for a woman’s breasts silly, goofy, humiliating, cloying, insulting, or just plain gross? As if We, The Women, don’t have enough with lugging…