"Controversies" That Need to Go Away

There are certain topics that when I see them on Facebook, or on social media....my eyes roll SO FAR back into my head, they might stay that way.

There are certain "controversies" that we need to kill. They need to go away.  NO MORE, America. No more. Can we all agree - these "super important problems" just need to just GO AWAY immediately.

* Starbucks and the Christmas Cup Caper

If I were to write a novel with this incredibly important topic (spoiler - that was sarcasm), this would be the title.

For the last few years, people have been clutching their pearls in horror because - wait for it - the Starbucks Christmas cups don't have reindeer or twinkle lights or mangers on them.

They were RED last year, and they are GREEN this year. THE HORROR!

Can we all agree - there are REAL problems in the world?!  Look, I am a person of faith; I'm a Christian and I celebrate the meaning of the season. But a) Starbucks is not, nor have they ever been, a Christian company and b) Even if they WERE, what they chose to put on a throw away paper cup would be so far down my list of worries, it might even fall off completely.

(I am adding a caveat to this because there were reports that last year's Red Cup Scandal 2015 was only a problem to literally 5 people and the media whirled it up into a big frenzy because apparently we didn't have anything else of note going on the country during that time. This is my surprised face.)

* Mommy Wars 

Notice I didn't title this "Mommy and Daddy Wars" because men don't really seem to care about labeling how their fellow men parent. GOOD ON YOU, guys!

This is literally the ONLY THING that needs to be said in the "Do you work outside the home or inside the home" debate that I see, embarrassingly, at least a few times a week online. Some of the commentary is outright hostile, but the vast majority is super duper passive aggressive.

Do you work outside the home? YOU ARE A GOOD MOM and your kids will turn out great and everything will be wonderful.

Do you work inside the home? YOU ARE A GOOD MOM and your kids will turn out great and everything will be wonderful.

There are 2,000 more examples of these mommy wars (see: organic vs not, tv time vs no screen time, etc etc etc). It's pure insanity.

THE END. Let's stop. Just stop. BE THE CHANGE, ladies.

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So what are yours? What are a few "problems" that come up that you'd like to squash?