Female Veteran Fires Back at Idiotic Parking Critic on Facebook

Rebecca Landis Hayes didn’t expect to take a feminist stand this week simply because she parked her car.

But some sexist moron provided Hayes with the platform to do just that.

Hayes was simply running errands at a shopping center in Concord, North Carolina on Monday when she pulled into a parking spot reserved for veterans.

A sign said as much.

And when Hayes returned from running said errands, she also returned to the above note on the windshield of her vehicle.

“This parking is for veterans, lady,” the anonymous message read. “Learn to read and have some respect.”

But here’s the thing: Hayes is a veteran.

We know this may be hard for some people to comprehend, but women can fight for the country they love just like men can.

Hayes served as a physician in the United States Navy for eight years.

In this instance, she was dressed in casual clothing, so a stranger figured there was no way she could be a former member of the armed forces.

Fortunately, Hayes responded to her anonymous pen pal in the best possible way in a Facebook post on Monday, which has since gone viral.

I know I parked in one of the Veteran Parking spaces today, it was hot, she began.

I had been in and out of my car several times already this afternoon, and I was only going to be a minute. Besides, the parking lot was full, so I just did it. It was the first time, and I won’t do it again.”

I’m sorry…

I’m sorry that you can’t see my eight years of service in the United Sates Navy. I’m sorry that your narrow misogynistic world view can’t conceive of the fact that there are female Veterans. I’m sorry that I have to explain myself to people like you.

Mostly, I’m sorry that we didn’t get a chance to have this conversation face to face, and that you didn’t have the integrity and intestinal fortitude to identify yourself, qualities the military emphasizes.

Which leads to one question, I served, did you?

What can we even add here?

Well played, Rebecca.

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Kylie Jenner: Semi-Nude Shower Selfie Raises Questions

Kylie Jenner has been baring a lot of skin on Instagram lately.

We know what you’re thinking: “Oh, is water also wet? What other mind-blowing newflashes ya got for me, THG?” But seriously, she’s been showing a lot of skin lately even by Kylie standards:

KJ kicked off the week showing the world her nipples in an Instagram post designed to promote her latest lip kit shade.

The next day Kylie took her top off as further evidence that she doesn’t quite understand the many differences between marketing a cosmetics line and just showing your boobs.

Now, she’s given us the above bikini-shower selfie combo, and frankly, we don’t know what to think.

Obviously, we’ve seen Kylie in a bikini before…

(In fact, we barely recognize her when she’s fully clothed.)

…And the shower selfie is a tried and true Instagram staple.

(Don’t you people worry about your phones getting wet?!)

But rarely have we seen the bikini pic and the shower selfie combined in such a perplexing fashion.

Like when Joyce published Ulysses or Dylan went electric, Kylie’s latest innovation has confounded critics and left fans with a slew of unanswered questions:

“Does she always shower in a bikini?”

“Does said bikini always match her bathroom decor?”

“Why is there nothing but a couple tiny slivers of soap on her shower shelf? Where is she showering, a state park?!”

Sadly, these mysteries may remain unsolved and continue to puzzle mankind for generations to come.

But hey, at least we have Kylie’s boobs to look at while we figure it out.

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Kendall Jenner Hits Back at Stephanie Seymour: She"s a Cyberbully!

Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid have recently been raked over the coals by several icons in the fashion industry.

Earlier this year, legendary designer Calvin Klein said he wouldn’t have put Kendall in his ads if he’d still been at the helm.

Then former model Rebecca Romijn told the world that Kendall and Gigi “are not true supermodels.“

The latest diss comes from one of the original supermodels of the 90s, Stephanie Seymour.

“Supermodels are sort of the thing of the past. They deserve their own title,” she explained.

“Bitches of the moment!” Seymour suggested as a title for the new crop of models.

The consensus in the fashion community seems to be that designers have adopted Kendall and Gigi due to their social media influence (born out of reality shows Keeping Up With the Kardashians and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) rather than their hard work or skills.

“I know a lot of people — legitimate fashion people — can’t stand it,” Romijn told Entertainment Tonight.

But now Kendall’s had enough of the shade.

She recently took to her app and website to play defense.

“If you choose to be a cyberbully, I’m going to stick up for myself,” she began.

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“No one is trying to steal Stephanie Seymour’s thing, or trying to be her. I actually looked up to her. She has a daughter!

“I guarantee you that she didn’t imagine someone so publicly shaming her daughter when she made those comments about us being ‘bitches of the moment.’”

Kendall went on to defend her and Gigi’s supermodel status.

“If people want to call Gigi and I supermodels now, it doesn’t take anything away from supermodels of the past,” she asserted.

“Obviously, I have so much respect for those women, but right now, we’re the models of this time. Significant? Maybe. Hardworking? For sure.”

However they got there, Kendall and Gigi are indeed the models of the moment. It’s a new day and social media didn’t exist in the 90s, and maybe if it had, Stephanie Seymour wouldn’t have had a job.

I can see how it might be frustrating for someone who thinks they “earned” their supermodel status by working harder, but perhaps these folks should be targeting the designers and agencies who’ve created this new tide shift in fashion rather than the models themselves.

Just a thought.

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Dad Leaves VERY Detailed List of Instructions for Babysitter

Better safe than sorry, right?

This saying can be applied to numerous situations, but perhaps none more appropriate than when it comes to the well-being if your child. 

Take Bryan Elliott, for example.

A software engineer and father from the Philadelphia area, he told The Huffington Post that his wife, Amy, was going through old emails recently when she came across something Bryan once wrote to a babysitter.

She was watching the couple"s son, Jack, for the first time and Bryan wanted to be certain that she was prepared for any situation.

And we mean ANY situation…

1. A Not-So-Quick Primer

“I remembered how lost Amy and I were when we brought Jack home on the first day, and figured I should write something detailed and straightforward without being too boring to read,” the dad explained to The Huffington Post.

2. What If He Cries?!?

See… Elliott explains that he was aiming for the “if-then” approach of operating manuals: “Just the idea of looking at an infant as a device — sort of a squishy Tamagotchi — is absurd enough to be funny. And I write a lot of technical documentation for work, so that’s the direction I kind of fell into.”

3. Skills to Remember

HA! Just shove the binky in his mouth. Nothing to it.

4. Pee vs. Poop

Don’t laugh. These are important distinctions.

5. It’s a Dirty Job!

But someone has to do it!

6. In Case of Diaper Emergency

Oh, yes, all parents can attest: this definitely happens.

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